The Great Bubble Reef

Controls: Use Arrow Keys to control the boat. 

This game was created for Global Game Jam 2025, based on the theme “Bubble.”

   

It was made by me and one other team member over the course of a short week. We were actually working on another game at the same time, so in total we probably only spent around three or four days on this one.

The idea behind it was to create something where, once all the core coding was in place, I could (in theory) build an unlimited number of levels that would just work without needing to change the mechanics.

While that principle was mostly set up, the gameplay — where the ship has a limited number of moves and needs to collect gold or pass through darker bubbles to increase or decrease the move count — meant it wasn’t quite as open and flexible as I’d hoped.

This game ended up being a prototype for a later project I developed called Burrowbound, which builds on the same core idea.
Link here: https://gwhile.itch.io/burrowbound