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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Creativity | #6 | 4.486 | 4.486 |
| Fun | #83 | 3.622 | 3.622 |
| Overall | #120 | 3.611 | 3.611 |
| Fishiness(?) | #140 | 4.000 | 4.000 |
| Audio | #203 | 2.946 | 2.946 |
| Visuals | #247 | 3.000 | 3.000 |
Ranked from 37 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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We ran out of time to do proper tutorials, sorry for that, hope people can understand how this works.
Pre-existing assets (optional*)
we put together logic from systems we have been developing but the vast majority of it was made during the jam .... sorry for the art assets we did our best in trying to do them by hand, so no AI assets.
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Good big game ! I had fun creating monster >u<, Good job !
The lack of tutorial indeed made it a tad difficult in the beginning, but I think this was a really cool game with an original concept that I've never found in a game before!
thanks for stopping by =)
This is extremely original and really cool. Plus making a networking game in the short time that a GameJam provides is a challenging decision, but it's always great to find a game that does. The lack of the tutorial makes things a bit messy, but after some playtesting it's not that hard to figure out.
I think the biggest flaw is that there seems to be no limit on the fish monstrocity you're building.
This is a great game, and one of the most original I've seen this GameJam, so congratulations to the team!
to be honest, the networking framework is the thing we had already, we developed the game over that framework of ours ... we still had to make the full game, but the networking and multiplayer aspect were already kinda there.
We made some video tutorials we plan on releasing soon so new players dont have to dig too deep to understand how it all works.
thanks a lot for stopping by =) glad you liked it
Peculiar but very interesting concept. I enjoyed trying to create a weird monstrosity fish machine.
thanks for stopping by =), we really appreciate it.
Pretty fun game. It was hilarious to load up a battle and be pitted against a twenty headed fish thing with twice that many blue fish shooters.
oh yeah those blue fish must be nerfed, far too overpowered .... but I have noticed some bluefish structures do better than others so still some learning to do there in our end
yeah. i really want to figure out how to get the green shield things. those are a pain on an opponent.
Really good concept. While money not mattering is probably a plus to me, being able to just add infinite parts makes auto battle part kinda meaningless (if you edit you get additional head + 200 health pool again. You also can just not specify health allocation and add infinitely).
It felt that the most effective way was stacking shields with blue fish to shoot.
Overall it was very fun seeing ridiculous creation shooting around. Got to the second place on the scoreboard (If I figured sooner that you can always bet 10k, which is actually 40k, I would probably be in the first place). Great job!
thanks a lot for the feedback =)!
Yeah we want to add some limits to the money thing, we are just not sure what is the sweet spot between allowing people do to anything and having some real stakes to the real game loop.
There is also a very annoying bug with the events being triggered that makes you earn a lot more money and lose a lot more money as well.
I think those blue fish should be nerfed in a way lol they are far too easy to just stack them around ... there are some commands we use as testers that we were not sure to include in the instructions because they were not supposed to be used ... like ...
if you hold Ctrl and click in a part, you clone it, which makes it easy and faster to create huge and complex monstrosities lol ...
Really well done for such a short time! Great job on the game. Cheers!
thanks for stopping by and the feedback
I'm (at the time of this writing) third on the leaderboard! Woohoo! (This TOTALLY won't affect my ratings.)
This was SUPER ambitious, but I adore games where you build critters and battle them. Top genre, no contest. The execution was amazing and you knocked it out of the part for the timeframe you had. Especially the auto-battles! They worked, and that was really impressive. Very well done, and the assets look great.
oh thanks a lot, the assets took me quite some time and a lot of retrials for I am no artist and was strugling to hold the pen firmly to try to draw over some fish pictures I found online lol ...
there is still a lot to be done there and really thought to make it not autobattle but have you be a submarine trying to defeat monsters made by the players ... not too sure if that idea was better or not.
thanks for playing @shieldman and for the feedback =)
Super interesting concept - it s a bit complicated to understand but I loved joining up weird fish lol also nice audio
oh thanks for playing @efeyukselcomposer
glad you liked the audio and the weird fish compositions.
eager to see your creations =)
It was really bold to make something online for a jam, good job on committing to it and finishing it… but… I was not able to play it…
It started, I was able to browse the menus, saw that I was already in the top of the leaderboard without actually doing anything xD, and then when I wanted to create my thingy, and well…
“Doing something important”
I wanted to try it, it looks like a creative idea.. I will come back later to see if I can (in the meantime I won’t leave a rating to not affect your final score).
hmmm, it does that when it is saving something, maybe a refresh is enough if it does not move from there.
I was able to play now. It is an interesting and cool idea.
I was able to buy everything with just the starting $1000, and ended up with negative money but I still could create my thingy. Then I went to battle and was able to bet $10000 everytime even with no money and ended up with $148000 xD
Some things are not clear, like what each part does, the cooldown for the parts, and what the extra HP was for (also when I reached 0, I couldn’t add more, but if I have something there I can add infinite things?).
The game has a fun loop though, it is fun to watch your beast fight.
Congrats! :)
thanks a lot @tomeyro for giving it another try =)
a lot of things we left undone kinda on purpose so we could see more of what people would like to see more, that is one of the reasons money is basically infinite so it does not stop you from creating your thingy cuz we believe some people might get more excited about creating than watching the fights ... other things we just could not finish (like showing tutorials explaining pieces and all)
thanks for the feedback we plan to keep evolving this