v4 · updated 2026-07-04
Dive into the depths in Sub Standard! Your mission is to navigate the abyss by sound alone and recover all 5 missing power cores (the glowing gold diamonds) before your sub is destroyed.
🎮 Controls:
- Steer: Left / Right Arrow Keys
- Thrust / Reverse: Up / Down Arrow Keys
- Sonar Ping: Z or X — light up your surroundings (it has a cooldown, and the locals can hear it…)
- Pause / Menu: Enter
⚠️ Beware the Depths: Leviathans hunt toward every ping they hear — listen for the growl, and if the water starts to rumble, one is right on top of you. Mines (the spiked balls) don’t move, but they don’t forgive either.
⏱️ Every run is timed and your best time is saved. Can you secure all 5 cores in one piece?
📜 Changelog
v4 — 2026-07-04
- The game now has full audio: engine hum, sonar ping, mine explosions, leviathan growls and bites, and a win fanfare — previously silent.
- Complete visual overhaul with a detailed vector submarine, snaking leviathans that open their jaws while hunting, spiked animated mines, and glowing rotating cores.
- The ocean is now rendered in an extended deep-sea palette with drifting marine snow particles.
- Proper title, death, and win screens replace placeholder text, including a surfacing cinematic when you collect all cores.
- Your run time, pings used, and hull remaining are shown at the end of each run, with your best time saved and displayed.
- Down arrow now fires reverse thrust, and the X button can also fire a sonar ping.
v3 — 2026-05-22
- feat: automate cartridge thumbnail extraction and integration during deployment
v2 — 2026-05-22
- make sub_standard deployable version
- Add automated Jekyll deploy script, clean up compiled assets, and add game descriptions
v1 — 2026-05-12
- initial versoin of sub_standard
- refactor: adjust submarine physics, invert rotation controls, and prevent entity spawning near the player start position