Inkwater

What's inside

Squib is a baby kraken, the size of a sprat and all eyes, living in a sunken harbour on Old Skerry Reef. Every tide he slips out to eat, grow and one day be big enough for a sailors' tale of his own. Pale creatures are food, gold ones are your size, dark ones will snap you up. Tap to squirt ink and dart: inside the cloud hunters lose you and swim past confused, and anything you bite from inside it counts double. One tide is 80 seconds. Grow from Sprat to Kraken, outlast Old Gnasher the conger, and find the bottles that hold the old tale.

• Swim with a drag, the mouse or the arrows; tap, click or Space to squirt ink
• Hide in your own ink: hunters lose you, ambush bites count double
• 8 sizes from Sprat to Kraken, and creatures flip from dark to pale as you outgrow them
• Daily tide with a streak, a free daily clam, 8 badges, 8 pages of a sailors' tale
• 6 prints for Squib, all earned by playing
• Printed like a two-colour linocut; no accounts, no personal data

Controls

Drag anywhere (touch), move the mouse or use arrows/WASD to swim. Tap, click or press Space to squirt ink. P or Esc pauses, M mutes.