The idea is great and the drawing of patterns is a nice addition. in my opinion the pattern drawing gets useful too late in the game and could be introduced earlier.
The art is nice and fits good.
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School for fish's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Graphics | #322 | 3.688 | 3.688 |
| Innovation | #375 | 3.375 | 3.375 |
| Theme | #444 | 3.563 | 3.563 |
| Overall | #798 | 2.958 | 2.958 |
| Fun | #847 | 2.875 | 2.875 |
| Game Design | #847 | 2.938 | 2.938 |
| Audio | #1763 | 1.313 | 1.313 |
Ranked from 16 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
In what way does your game fit the theme?
You control a group of fish that survives only when they are together.
Did you write all the code yourself and made all the assets from scratch?
Yes. Everything except music, because it’s not here.
Comments
I expected something much more simple. haha, I like the tutorial and mechanics in general. A feel it a bit slow, specially if you lose and need to replay some level (easy fixed with checkpoins maybe). And difficult to make the forms needed for open the fish-barriers, anyways, is a great game, I really like it.
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Oh possums!Nice concept but I would like to have some kind of tutorial, I did not figure out how to free other fishes. I missed some audio too :)
Submitted
Wild Beasts [Game Jam]Really cool concept! The drawing a formation using the mouse is really unique, loved that you can open different paths if you do it correctly. The arrow key movement is very restricted, only going a short distance every press does not really fit well. Loved to have some audio as well. The eels were also really hard to navigate around, they always pick one of my fish :(. Good job on the game!
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Above and BeyondThe art is really nice, and the concept is really unique. I didnt really realize I was able to use the mouse to draw and control the fish until awhile after playing the game, so if you clarified that, it would be much better. And the way how the fish spread themselves out in the shape of the drawing of the mouse seems really innovative. One suggestion is to make the levels go faster or make them shorter cause it seems they can drag on for a bit. And even though there is neither music nor sound effects, I thought the game turned out pretty good.
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Oatmeal & the Elemental TrioI really like the art and I like the controls. Pretty interesting that you use mouse to control the fish instead of the keyboard, because thanks to this you could release on mobile! I kind of felt confused trying to draw the circle and I got stuck, but still great game!
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Untitled Brackeys Jam SubmissionNeat idea and I like how I can draw shapes with the cursor. I wish the fish would follow the shapes I drew ;) It did feel somethings that the fish was not as responsive as I would create a long line but it would only move a few pixels. Nice twist on the end of the first level. I was like "Wait, where are the other fishes? am I going to die now? Oh, nice"
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Brawny BrothersI like the art and animations. Controls aren't as responsive as I would like and I never figured out how to save other fish. I also think that intro level should be shorter since it seems like the main draw is controlling several fish. Overall though, good job!
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