Odell Down Under
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| Developer(s) | MECC |
| Publisher(s) | SoftKey |
| Platform(s) | Classic Mac OS, Windows |
| Release date(s) | 1995 |
| Genre(s) | Educational |
| Mode(s) | Single Player |
| Distribution | CD (1) |
Odell Down Under is a game for the PC and Macintosh that takes place in the Great Barrier Reef. It is the sequel to Odell Lake.
Gameplay
The player takes on the role of a fish who in turn must eat, stay clean and avoid being eaten by predators to survive. There are several modes of gameplay. In Tournament mode, the player plays every fish in the game, starting as the tiny silver sprat and eventually reaching the great white shark. A shorter Challenge mode picks four random fish (from smallest to largest) instead. The player can choose to play any fish in Practice Mode. Finally, in Create-A-Fish the player creates their own species based on various parameters such as size and agility, which also affect the appearance of the fish. The color, special ability, and nocturnal or diurnal habits are also selected. Special moves, also present for some 'real' fish, include the stingray's sting and the cuttlefish's ink squirt.
Each fish has different preferences for food, as described in the educational summary before the game starts. The game consists of nine screens, arranged in three levels from the sandy bottom to the reef's top, that various fish, including the player, move through looking for food. To survive, or to gain enough points to reach the next fish, your fish has to find enough edible food (which can include plants, crustaceans or coral as well as fish) to prevent its constantly decreasing energy bar from reaching 0 and death. The other main concern, besides avoiding predators, is health, which can only be repaired by finding a bluestreak cleaner wrasse while playing as a diurnal fish, or a banded coral shrimp while playing as a nocturnal fish, and moving next to it. Health takes a serious drop if the fish eats something poisonous to it, often a sea slug or sponge.
List of fish
Main Fish
- Achilles Tang
- Black and White Spinecheek
- Blackfin Barracuda
- Blackspotted puffer
- Blacktip Shark
- Bloodspot Squirrelfish
- Bluegill Longfin
- Bluelined Snapper
- Bluespotted ray
- Bronze Sweeper
- Cleaner Mimic Blenny
- Clown Coris
- Clown Triggerfish
- Coral Grouper
- Crocodile Needlefish
- Cuttlefish
- Dash and Dot Goatfish
- Devil Scorpionfish
- Doublelined Mackerel
- Flashlight fish
- Football Trout
- Giant Grouper
- Great White Shark
- Humphead Wrasse
- Lined Cardinalfish
- Lionfish
- Long-Nosed Butterflyfish
- Longfin Spadefish
- Longhorn Cowfish
- Longsnout Flathead
- Lyretail Coral Trout
- Marbled Grouper
- Moorish Idol
- Neon Damselfish
- Oriental Sweetlip
- Painted Flutemouth
- Painted Frogfish
- Palette Surgeonfish
- Pencile Streak Rabbitfish
- Picassofish
- Pygmy Parrotfish
- Rainbow Runner
- Redtooth Triggerfish
- Ringtail Wrasse
- Semicircle Angelfish
- Short-tail Electric Ray
- Silver Sprat
- Small Spotted Pompano
- Threadfin Butterflyfish
- Variegated Lizardfish
- Whitemargin Unicornfish
- Whitemouth Moray Eel
- Whitespot Hawkfish
- Whitespotted Guitarfish
- Yellowspot Empereor
Other species
- Algae
- Banded Coral Shrimp
- Brittle Star
- Cluster Anemone
- Crab
- Giant Clam
- Grass
- Lobster
- Mixed Marine Community
- Needle Spined Sea Urchin
- Oyster
- Plankton
- Reef Starfish
- Sea Cucumber
- Sea Pens
- Sea Slug
- Sea Squirt
- Sea Wasp
- Shrimp
- Snail
- Worm
- Zoanthid Colony