| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Creativity | #71 | 3.964 | 3.964 |
| Fun | #95 | 3.571 | 3.571 |
| Overall | #102 | 3.700 | 3.700 |
| Fishiness(?) | #124 | 4.071 | 4.071 |
| Visuals | #128 | 3.643 | 3.643 |
| Audio | #138 | 3.250 | 3.250 |
Ranked from 28 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Notes (optional)
There's a web and downloadable exe. The exe has the colors we intended, but the web version should be playable as well.
Pre-existing assets (optional*)
Music was from a teammate from a prior game jam. He has since published it, we used it with permission and credited him (Matt Harvey)
Really fun and fast-paced Hades-survivor style game! I think I would have liked this as an auto-shooter(caster) game tho cus I was mostly just button-mashing to spam my spells immediately when they cooldown.
I love the fishing minigame! That was a really fun twist on the upgrade tree forula. I'd love a more expanded version of this with tons of special rare fish to look forward to!
I'm not sure if this was optimal but I found myself just sticking to three spells in total, since they refreshed quickly and there didn't seem to be a downside to a limited spell pool.
Since there weren't any rare fish to look for, the optimal play was to immediately hook the first or second fish before the screen got totally obscured by junk.
Love the way the fish names combine into funny compound words ^_^
So I had my 'minlckerel', 'mackckerel', and a super upgraded 'jellyon' and was pretty content with just immediately adding my new caught fish to them to keep upgrading forever. That's a really cool idea!
I'm up to over 200 gold and don't think there's any way for me to lose at this point, since I added mackerels to all my spells, I just get infinite shields so I'm pretty much invincible :D
Super fun concept! Excellent work!! The farting death sounds were funny too.
Haha, I do think you figured out the optimal strategy with the current way the fish combine! Adding some rare fish and making the fishing minigame not fill up with junk as quickly would make for a fun decision of 'how much do you want to push your luck to wait for a specific fish'.
I'm glad that you appreciated the fish names! I had a lot of fun seeing what weird results I could get while I was testing the combining system. I think one of my favorites was 'Jellynow', from the Jellyfish and the Minnow.
Thank you for the kind words!
I appreciate the feedback! The game balance is definitely something that we would have loved to have more time to adjust. I think the battles did not scale up in difficulty enough, and the fishing minigame scaled up too much!
That's an interesting suggestion for assigning fish to the buttons. We were thinking about ways to make the effects easier to identify, but adding the ability to choose which ones to have active is a good thing to consider.
Thanks!
Thanks! I agree with you about the fishing minigame. We would have loved to have more time to adjust the balance. Making it have a lower max difficulty and scale up in difficulty slower are both on our list of adjustments that we plan to make.
Thanks! About 1 in 10 times we had enemies spawning inside of terrain, so we decided to make projectiles penetrate terrain instead of making situations where rooms can’t be cleared. We’re planning on doing a couple of polish things after the jam and voting ends, and projectiles colliding with solid objects is high on the list.
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