You play as a normal human going for a swim who has to avoid the nasty pinches of a randomly skittering crab. The 'A' and 'D' keys allow you to rotate, and the space bar causes you to thrust forward. Note that it is harder to turn when drifting forward. Each time you thrust forward you will slightly increase in size, but collecting starfish makes you much smaller. That is until you get pinched and are reset to normal (difficulty adjusts the starting size of the octopus).