cool game!! love the games perspective for both fish and fisherman. great idea that the game takes blackout in three interpretations! its a nice touch to details. overall its pretty fun to play including the arcade mode!

I really enjoyed the music and the fishing section. Even the fish swimming section was fun. The music is fantastic and fits the vibe so well. The realization that you are fishing in the same spot you were swimming in earlier is a cool moment in the game. I like how this game has a plot in story mode. I think the timer should pause when you are on the upgrade screen in arcade mode, and maybe the game should have at least one more upgrade. But yeah, I enjoyed this one. Fabulous!

Pleasantly surprised by how much I liked this one! I personally think it gets the story across pretty effectively, it's a creative take on the theme (I'd only use the word 'blackout' in one of those instances, but it's not that much of a reach tbh,) and though I'll admit that Story Mode isn't the most fun, Arcade Mode definitely picks up the pace and takes advantage of the mechanics you have. The fish is seriously floaty, sure, but taking advantage of the character controller and thusly only moving clockwise or counterclockwise without daring to let go is actually quite a lot of fun. I got 126. I am far worse at the Fisherman Perspective but I also can't give it a lot of time before I go to work today--I can't say I didn't get into it! I only had one bug, that being in Story Fisherman, where I had 2k to my name and bought an upgrade that cost 1k, it upgraded it twice instead of once and took all my money. Small bug in the grand scheme of things but a bug still.

If the game has any weak spot, it's the visuals. The colors are all fine and well, I don't really mind if the spritework's rough, but what I mean more is that--as a non-artist--you do not necessarily have to limit yourself to flat colors and paint buckets. Have some fun with gradients! I get that that'd be harder to pull off in the ocean (where the change from flat color to flat color matters a lot, and you've telegraphed that very well) but it's certainly manageable. You could also have a few bubbles in the background, or even little particles, or much tinier fish just kinda going about their business. That's all flavor and flair I suppose, but for Arcade Mode (I'm not sure it would fit the story too much) it would be very nice to have a visual on where the nearby fishes or even nearest fish is when they aren't on screen, since wandering around a single-color screen holding left or right and making sure I'm not secretly at an invisible wall is frustrating when I have a timer over my head. It's recoverable but it's put me in a bad spot every time I tried.

if I can say something less about the game: I would be more open to the criticism you're receiving from the people who've missed the story in one way or another or didn't try arcade mode. I don't think you have a bad attitude whatsoever--I get the need to defend your work, especially if the person on your tail hasn't seen everything you put into it, but one of the first things I learned as an adult/college student is that you won't always be there to defend your work. Sometimes your work will be seen, and you'll be given an unexpectedly low grade or have the bulk of your game passed up on without you personally being able to make the player see your perspective. Think of it less as, "this player missed a thing!" and more as "how did this player miss this thing?" or perhaps "why would this player assume anything except my vision?" That is one the most difficult parts of game development, to the point where you could readily look at the comments of my own game and call me a blazing hypocrite for letting people know that the game is hard because there's a bug. I think there's a material difference between that (plus you stating that letting people cheese the story fish perspective was intentional, that feels incredibly allowed to me) and disagreeing with people missing the story but I have to go to work in like two minutes and can't think much more on that.

To be clear though, above all else, I think you did a very good job with this and I'm excited to see what games and stories you have in store going forward :)

Interesting game, the switch in perspective is a cool concept, maybe it would be nice to make accessing the index a bit clearer at first?

I like that you chose to use your game to get across an environmental message. However, I think that message could be better conveyed in the gameplay itself, and that the gameplay could be improved to make it more fun at the same time. It felt a little off that there wasn't any interplay between the fisherman side and the fish side while playing as the fish--no hooks in the water and no other fish. Also, it would be interesting if the fisherman's activity was more closely linked to the amount of trash/the dying fish during the gameplay itself, rather than just as a note at the end. Maybe as you upgrade, more trash shows up and the fish get scarcer?

I think you could make the catching minigame a whole lot harder, because the differences between the types of fish wasn't noticeable for me until the fourth level fish and I think I only lost one or two fish throughout the whole story mode. I also didn't see anything negative happen when hitting the trash.

I hope you keep making games and improving, because I can see that you're very creative and want to tell good stories!

The first part where the fish looks for food I put the fish at the very top because I know that the trash spawn 'Y' coordinate may not go all way to the top, and I was right, it didn't. So, I just sat that and I never saw 1 fish I could eat, so I died. 

The Fisherman should have a target to cast to. Not one fish got close enough for me to hook. I never did the 3rd part.

Fishing games are usually great fun, you just need some work on yours. Keep at it!

Add a few more visual effects and it'll be a banger!

I LOVE IT! I just wonder that why we loose the fish when we miss it?  And also why the quick time event is same as other fishes?

Wow you really got a lot of use out of the theme! I liked the gameplay and the music was really cool. There were just a couple of little things. The first thing is in the story modes first minigame I was able to just go to the very top of the screen and not need to move. The other thing was I wish there was a way to skip the dialogue faster. I found myself finishing reading it pretty quickly but then having to wait for it to change to the next one. Just a few little things that I don't mind but still thought I should say. You did a good job with this game! 

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A simple but addictive fishing game. It has unique visuals and the music fit the game really well and the arcade mode was also pretty fun. But I feel like the beginning of the story mode when you are the fish is a bit unnecessary. But I still think the game is pretty well done.

Really cool, flash game aesthetics. Nice work!

Hey! I really liked the game, it was a simple yet interesting experience :)

The music is beautiful and fits the gameplay perfectly.

The only things I would like to highlight are an inability to skip the story dialogues and the absence of the pause menu.

cool game

It's fun, reminds me of old fishing games, for when i was a little child, really nice game ya have there, great job!

My favorite part of the game was the fisherman's perspective and the different layers of water. It reminds me of older fishing flash games I played back in the day. I also like that you draw attention to environmental pollution with this simple game.

pretty good! 

IT fun i really like the arcade and fisherman perspective but the timer is ehhhh it will be more fun if the timer was not there but i like the movement is soo smooth and so peaceful. GREAT WORK!

Very good game i like the Sounds

The discarded bags looked like cheese and it murked me haha