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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Creativity | #15 | 4.289 | 4.289 |
| Visuals | #94 | 3.868 | 3.868 |
| Overall | #123 | 3.605 | 3.605 |
| Fun | #146 | 3.316 | 3.316 |
| Fishiness(?) | #186 | 3.789 | 3.789 |
| Audio | #225 | 2.763 | 2.763 |
Ranked from 38 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Pre-existing assets (optional*)
Boss fight music was a rearrangement of a pre-existing track from a planned fish-related game. Main theme music was a rearrangement of a pre-existing track from a different planned fish dating-sim . Ocean ambience taken from a video of the ocean I took with my phone around 1.5 years ago?
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https://karelessocelot.itch.io/catching-a-date/devlog/711674/walkthrough-postmortem
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Very creative idea, the fish visuals reflect their personalities relatively well enough for it not to be blind guessing. Well done
I keep getting jump scared by the shark T.T Couldn't get pass 3 questions no matter what. Tip please???
keep fishing with the red lure or the yellow lure and answering all questions as best as you can
if you just want to see any ending you can always grind for a while with the red lure and then switch over to the blue lure for an easy ending
time is displayed on the top right corner of the phone
you can also just check the walkthrough (it's in the devlog)
This was the second fishing based dating simulator I have played during this jam... but this one let me DATE the fish, not just catch them, so you clearly win.
I didn't know I needed this but here we are. Great job!
Thank you. One of my goals when making this was for it to be the fishing dating-sim that nobody (knew they) needed, so I'm glad that got through.
What a wild mashup of ideas! Some of the fishing timers seemed impossibly fast, but after switching to the blue lure, it was much more doable. Great work!
Fun to play for different endings, as well as seeing the fish react! I like how wrong answers affect the fish you're talking to. The flexability for how to catch numbers is also nice especially after playing a few times.
Very cute game with cute art. Good job !
Great art style!
I reeeally liked the idea! so creative and the art really cute
Very fun and creative concept!! ✨I like that there is some learning about each fish! The premise of the game is very silly and I love that! 💖🐟
Cool game. Managed to make all 7 fish blush and get a date with them, was quite surprised at the shark transformation. Very beautiful art. Great job!
This was so much fun!! I definitely need to work on my timing skills so that I can get a real catch 😉😂
Hopefully one day I'll find the fish for me 🥲
Plenty of fish in the sea though!
Amazing job my friend!
Great game, funny concept
Am I really that unattractive to fish?? 😭😭😭 Played through 4 times and only managed one successful date lol. A win is a win though I guess! :D Strange concept but for sure worth the play. Also nice art 👌the mix of styles worked surprisingly well!
The fish blushing when they like an answer is really funny. Is there a way to pause fishing while I talk to fish on the phone?
Nope, sorry. Sometimes you just have to make compromises between finishing up your talk properly or speeding through the questions to catch another phone number. I'd say it's a metaphor for missing out on opportunities, but it's not that deep. I mostly just kept it as is because I like keeping people's options open.
A charming game with fun, witty dialogue! I truely loved progressing through all the different fish dialogue -- though I wasn't very good at getting the right answer haha. The shark had a field day with me. Good job! :D
An EXTREMELY fishy game. I love the art (especially when the fish hear the right answers and blushes). The fish all seem to lose interest by like the fourth question when there isn't a clear "right" answer, but I'm not going to give up. Fantastically fishy! Happy to see such safety and legality in this one!
The fourth question is just the "will you date me question," so you'll want to reach the indicated spot on the compatibility gauge at the top to actually get there. IIRC red lure fish have the highest target value so it might be easier to use a different lure. I've also posted a rough walkthrough if you want to save some time.
My greatest fear is to be told that I've revived the car batteries in the ocean meme. When I went to the beach about a year ago people genuinely had "don't throw car batteries in the ocean" signs in front of their houses. I couldn't tell if it was because they didn't know it was just a joke or if people actually threw car batteries in the ocean...
Loved it !
However I haven't been able to succeed a date, I'm so bad even fish don't want to date me ^^
Art is cool, jokes are 100% working on me and gameplay is fun and easy to catch up.
good job, this a great game !
Cute and fishy game. Never thought fish had such high standards D:
This is a very cool concept for a game. The fact that you have to get a date before nighttime or else you firkin die is just such a scary situation imo
Thanks, I thought having stakes involved would make it more exciting than without a time-limit, so I'm glad to hear that!