The game was nice to play. The idea is good. I liked the art style as well. Music/SFX is nice, but I think it was too loud. I see a growth potential here. You could add some more fish/boat types, and fishing nets (?). Also, I thought I'll be able to catch bigger fish to scale. Well done!
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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Style | #711 | 4.026 | 4.026 |
| Overall | #1186 | 3.596 | 3.596 |
| Enjoyment | #1425 | 3.368 | 3.368 |
| Creativity | #2127 | 3.395 | 3.395 |
Ranked from 38 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How does your game fit the theme?
This is a fishing game in which you can get eaten by a giant fish and get inside of it. Doing so has financial insentive.
Development Time
96 hours
Comments
108 days ago(+1)
Thank you for providing feedback!
There is currently only two ways to get away from a boat-sized fish the player has to either swim far enough away or dodge 3 of it's attack for it to get bored and give up. We're looking to add new ways of interacting with it after the jam.
If you're talking about the giant fish it's indeed impossible to swim away from it, but must of the time it is benefitial to let it attack and eat you - this doen't do damage to you (at least it's not intendent - there is currently a bug when you can hit a rock if you're close to it, when the giant fish attacks) and you can catch more expensive fish inside.
Again thank you for playing!
Oh Oh Oh! I'm glad you liked the water!!! We also wanted to include ripples on the surface, as to add more perceived volume, but unfortunately that didn't pan out.
Kley made wonderful water in Don't Starve, I looked at this game when trying to understand how all of this should/could work. In Don't Starve Together there're used simple textures and ripples; in Don't Starve: Shipwrecked could be found more complex textures and solutions (water wise, at least). Do recommend checking both games out for some amazing problem solving!
Thank you for playing!
110 days ago (+2)
Thank you for playing!
Initially we had some plans for giving the player a way to fight back against the medium fish using harpoon or hide away from it in the tall grass, but those ideas got cut due to the time limit. Right now it's possible to either swim away from the fish or make it attack you 3 times for it to get bored and let you go but we do think that the player should have more options to interact with aggressive fish.
The lack of small fish to catch is also a really common complaint so we will probably adjust the spawn rates or even change the way spawn system works in the future.
Again thank you for playing and providing feedback!
110 days ago(+1)
Haha yes!! We're so glad that people are getting eaten! We were a bit afraid that players would avoid big fish, but also we didn't want to spoil the surprise.
I'm glad you enjoyed playing!
110 days ago(+1)
Thank you for your feedback!
The "return home bubbles" are currently spawned randomly and it is indeed possible for the player to not find them for a while. We tried to solve this problem by significantly increasing the chance of them spawning, but idealy there should be a guarante that player will find them after some fixed amount of searching - we will look into that after the Jam.
Glad you liked the game!
110 days ago (+2)
Thank you for playing!
The misteriuos ship in the giant fish belly is actually a bug which we only discovered like 5 hours before the deadline. We all thought it was so thematicaly fitting for player to find some of his broken ships inside the giant fish though that we just decided not to fix it. We call him bro and really glad someone found him. The bug doesn't happen often so you can consider yourself blessed by the Fish Gods!
110 days ago(+2)
OH YES!
We don't really know how he's there, but I love him so much. Seeing his light shine from the corner of the screen is always so exciting! Like finding a long lost companion! Though yeah, finding him for the first time was like seeing herobrine in minecraft; we thought one of us added that as a prank (still might be true, for all the programmers denying it)
Overall, I would call it a feature simply because it brings me immense joy
Thank you so much for playing! And a special thanks from me, an avid doppelganger enjoyer, for finding the little guy!
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