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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Creativity | #54 | 4.000 | 4.000 |
| Fun | #138 | 3.333 | 3.333 |
| Fishiness(?) | #214 | 3.667 | 3.667 |
| Overall | #265 | 2.960 | 2.960 |
| Visuals | #347 | 2.533 | 2.533 |
| Audio | #472 | 1.267 | 1.267 |
Ranked from 15 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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This is a very weird, text-based game that will almost certainly not be everyone's cup of tea. It's also definitely still a work in progress. (It really needs more words than the 91 that it currently has.) Hopefully, you can still find some fun in it!
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Oh I adore this whole concept and I found it incredibly fun! I'd love to see what all the options are, unfortunately I cannot imagine doing anything not nice to the fish I love it.... I was greatly saddened that 'pet', 'touch', 'cherish' and 'admire' weren't options /j
Seriously though, this is a really fun and neat concept and I'd love to see it expanded upon! Keep it up!
So glad you enjoyed it! It will absolutely be expanded, and I'll make sure that you can pet, touch, cherish, and admire the fish. If you are interested in knowing all options, I did put together a full list for the current version of the game in the interest of helping people try stuff out for the jam.
Ohhh thank you!!! I'm definitely going to try these out!
hahah, I had a good time, thinking what can I do with the fish. those ones got me laughing :D.
https://ibb.co/6bP7Ggt
very original game idea, out of the box, great job!
Glad you had a good, squishy, fishy time. Thanks for taking the time to play!
WHAT HAVE I DONE!?!?
This is a really interesting concept but I think the leaderboard does not work for me
You monster.
It's not just you, the leaderboard barely works at all, haha. It's already working much better in my current build, just waiting for the jam to end, so I can upload.
Glad you can see the idea nonetheless!
Thats a crazy concept
What can I say? I'm a crazy dude.
very interesting idea, some outcomes are really interesting, I had to stop myself after spending quite a long time obssessively trying to find all the 90 things.
My favorite
btw, what did I do here?
Glad you had a good time with it! Your favorite was actually also one of my favorites to write; if you type it in a couple times, that one has some pretty fun variants. Not sure if you saw it in a comment down below, but there is a list of all possible actions if you just want to try any more out.
It looks like what you did there was <null> the fish.
Seriously though, it looks like somehow a variable didn't get assigned anything. The online "leaderboard" type thing is pretty buggy right now. I should have known better than to think I could get that working with minimal testing, haha. Do you by any chance remember what you put in that led to that <null> response?
I think what I put in there was something after feed the fish, dont remember .... trying real hard to reproduce it here and just cant ....
oh got it .... if you type a character like "tab" it causes it to null the fish
actually if you type "tab" accidently after a word it also causes it to null the fish
Hey, thanks so much for taking the time to search for it! You really didn't have to do that, but you've definitely saved me some messing around. I'll make sure to get that fixed for after the jam.
I had fun doing it, love breaking things =) hope that causes no harm to your db
Good game to pass the time
It's interesting type any action to see whats happens
Sorry, I killed the fish 😪!
I'm disappointed in you that you killed the fish. But I'm glad you found it to be a good time waster.
Thanks for taking the time to play and comment!
Very fun concept and overall game, well done !
Thanks! I find your existence to be a very fun concept!
Tried very hard to educate the fish, but in the end I can't. Left me no choice other than to eat it (◡_◡). I had a good time with the game tho and it was cool to see the responses.
I'll be sure to let you educate it post-jam. Hopefully you left a bit uneaten that you can still educate.
Thanks for taking the time to play! Glad you had a good time.
Interesting idea. Seeing I'm the first person to kill, eat and slap the fish makes me feel like a terrible person.
Haha, the goal in a significant number of my games is to make people feel uncomfortable. So, I'm glad I could play a role in making you feel terrible.
I actually had the idea for this game a long time ago, but it was going to be called "Pet the Dog." I never actually did anything with that idea, and ended up using this jam to motivate me to actually make something with it. So just be happy you weren't killing, eating, or slapping a dog.
Well now I'm disappointed lol!
Love the retro vibe, I'm a big fan of text games! I've been able to find a good chunk of actions, would love to know the full list of things to do.
Shoot! Hug and kiss were totally on my to-do list, not sure how I didn't get to those. Also, it's a bug (that I thought I fixed) that even when you can't do something it still adds up how many people did it... oops.
Glad you liked the vibe! I'll put together a list somewhere and link it, so that I won't spoil it for folks that just want to play around. Quite a few of the actions also have multiple possible responses, sometimes just mad-lib style switching out words, and sometimes entirely different, so maybe I'll make some sort of master list that includes all of that information.
Hope just a txt file in Google Drive is alright. Here are all of the possible actions in the current version of the game:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/10SudkFa7QfsPuzMU0UwuMkJIlIngOXXM/view?usp=sharing
awesome, will definitely try!
Cool game! I like the old-windows-style look of it and figuring out the different things I can do to the fish :D
Glad you enjoyed it! The Windows look was because I was trying to figure how to make a nice looking bunch of UI without spending forever designing stuff, and that seemed like it would fit the writing and be decently easy to achieve. Thanks for taking the time to play!