| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Presentation (visuals) | #9 | 4.476 | 4.476 |
| Concept (gameplay) | #117 | 3.381 | 3.381 |
| Overall | #127 | 3.476 | 3.476 |
| Theme | #269 | 2.571 | 2.571 |
Ranked from 21 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Did not expect much going into the game but I'm genuinely surprised how much I actually enjoy it! It's just something about the feel of the game that just makes it so satisfying and relaxing! Well done on that!
I feel like you could take this game further by adding come attention to details and some fun interaction. Say maybe a rower to the boat that does various idle animation, like fishing, maybe some fish jumping over the boat, a little rocking on the boat, etc. Also, could add a night cycle where the water is a lot more calm and have glowing particle appearing where the water is disturb (by the boat, the shore lines, etc). Something similar to this:
Gif taken from life of pi night scene
But yeah I felt this can be a really good game to chill in, just sit back and relax. Really enjoy the game a lot! Keep it up! Oh I also found that the collider is acting a bit weird, forgive me if I'm wrong but did you use tick convex on the mesh collider? Cause if so it'll make a weird simplified collider with weird shape. And with that I'll leave you with this screenshot:
This is the reason I participate in game jams and make games in general is to hear awesome feedback like this from the players and yes this could be expanded in many other ways and your ideas about the fishing, day and night cycle will help reinforce the calm nature of the game.
Yes, I ticked the convex mesh collider to save time because there are so many assets if I did each one of them i'll lose valuable time in other areas. Thank youuuu Laksamana for enjoying and by the looks of your boat, finishing my game, it means so much to me :D
This game surprised me a lot! I liked it so much that the very loose connection to the theme didn't really matter to me. The atmosphere in the game immediately puts you in the mood to explore and take in the sights.
It would be even better if the world was more dynamic like having a day/night cycle with pretty stars or a rower that plays cute little idle animations or even having the items you collect bounce around like physics objects.
Another critique is that the speed of the boat needs tweaking, it feels too slow at the start and too fast at the end, it made it hard for me to grab the last few items. Alternatively, you could make the colliders on the items bigger so they can be grabbed easier.
Wooow thanks PropellorHat, yes I thought the rotation of the boat and the rotating around the map to find bounties is enough for the theme but based on the comments, I guess its not that obvious. I would like to add a day and night cycle too but I focused way too much on the level design and the water that I have few time left to do other stuff haha. I'll maybe implement feedback after the jam :) Thanks again !
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