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This was such a good game. So well polished too in such a short amount of time. I love the art style. I love the fishing minigame. I love the audio and how they make you feel your actually in that area despite it being a still image. Super good game. I definitely played a villian and got a bad ending. But I had a great time doing it. Great job.

Thank you so much!

I appreicate you saying that and it is definitely something I understand and completely agree with. I regret not making day 8 just an impossible quota and then that could be 'the ending'. But I left it the way it was so the player could keep going and say 'I made it to day 13 for example'. Like a highscore. I regret that decision because most people don't care about that in a game like this and that is fair. 

TRUST ME, I wanted an 'GOOD' ending in this game so bad. I just had no time to implement one. I wanted more dialgoue past day 8 and maybe a day 10 GOOD ending, but I just didn't have the time. I am really sorry your efforts didn't feel rewarded and I am so surprised you made it all the way to day 10. Furthest anyone I know of has made it.

I definitely want to come back after the jam and polish it off. Some people want me to add a few new areas to the game and some side quests and different fishing areas. They want it as a full complete game. I have been honestly thinking about doing that. 

Either way, I understand that frustration. I was frustrated with that too. I should have had the player just die at day 8 with a more conclusive bad ending. But at the time, I just felt I would let them go for 'highscores' or whatever. But the game is not too great to replay besides for the minigame. Thank you for your feedback. There definitely will be a big polishing update after the jams voting is done.

You are the best man. Ecstatic you enjoyed it this much. More updates and games like it hopefully to come🙏🖤

I am happy you liked the minigame so much! I was worried that many would find it too hard and unfair. REALLY happy you liked it so much. Thank you for your feedback!

Thank you so much. Yeah, I felt it lacked horror too to be honest. I went for a conceptual horror style where just the very idea of something was scary enough to be horror. I was inspired by Tusk (a movie I absolutely hate for how uncomfortable it makes me), and the book / game, I Have No Mouth, And I Must Scream.  I don't think I hid the 'secret' of what was going on well enough. The ending was meant to be a REVEAL OF THE TRUTH... but I think most players guessed what was going on right away. I also don't think I executed the whole 'body horror' concept near well enough.

But anyway, I REALLY appreciate you playing my game and your feedback too! THANK YOU.

Well you did an incredible job at the sound design as I said. So good. I should start taking that more seriously in my projects aswell. Sadly, I didn't get to finish the boat no. But had a blast anyway. Maybe 3 boat parts could be better for the sake of a jam? But I can't say much. My game goes on way too long with very little change. It's a jam so we tried our best

I LOVED THIS GAMES STYLE. The art is brilliant. The gore and the 'Slay The Princess' (kinda) art style. I loved it. The best concept for this Game Jam too. The idea of using your own body parts as bait is genius. I wish I could understand the games systems better. I kept losing my sanity and wasn't quite sure how not to do that? If I had high sanity I would just not use my own bait for a while but I would still go insane? It is probally a me problem. But I loved it. Such a good game.

I liked this. It is a perfect example of what a Game Jam should be. The monster popping up made me tweak the first time it popped up too. The choice of the drums when fishing aswell was great. Added much more intensity than you expect. A minigame would be nice and a few more areas with more threats maybe? 

So far, my favorite pro gaming experience in the Game Jam so far. I really liked this. Like REALLY liked. Super cool and unsettling concept. Pretty good visuals too in such a short amount of time. The fish models are impressive. UNBELIEVABLE sound design. Holy, whoever was in charge of sound design, tell me your secrets. Or dont. That's fine.

In short, loved this.  

I actually had A LOT of fun with this game. I couldn't put it down for a good bit. I am still trying to put it into words what I enjoyed so much about the fishing. I think I really love games that are in cramped spaces. I am anti-claustrophobic (if that is a thing). I love small spaces with lots of interesting mechanics in that small space. I love the tablet system. Being able to watch your little hook sink and catch something is a super cool mechanic with LOTS of potential.

Really enjoyed your game and your live stream!

I REALLY like the visuals. Gives me PuppetCombo vibes and I really like puppet combo vibes. Couldn't really find many traps and just kept wandering about looking at how cool the game looks. Good stuff.

Thank you so much! 

Well first I wish you the best with your surgery. I really pray everything goes well for you. You made an effort and you were not afraid to submit your progress either, and to me, that alone is a huge accomplishment. I think the way you present the horror premise and sitatuion is EXTREMELY well done. I mean EXTREMELY too. Simple and small details like how the dialogue is displayed (the fading effect works well), and the sound design was really good in the beginning. So great job with that.

Well first I wish you the best with your surgery. I really pray everything goes well for you. You made an effort and you were not afraid to submit your progress either, and to me, that alone is a huge accomplishment. I think the way you present the horror premise and sitatuion is EXTREMELY well done. I mean EXTREMELY too. Simple and small details like how the dialogue is displayed (the fading effect works well), and the sound design was really good in the beginning. So great job with that.

This was the first game I played in the entire jam and I was SO IMPRESSED. I am not just saying that. The mini-game you designed felt very 'Five Nights at Freddy's' to me, and I really really liked that. It was a unique spin, one that I know I could have never came up with. A really cool concept that I would love to see fleshed out even further. There are some complex features in here too, the mini-game itself, the dialogue, the currency system. You got this done in a very short amount of time as you submitted it was earlier than everyone else. Really good job.

I am upset because I had a whole massive review comment ready and it just disappeared on me. But I am definitely going to write it again because I had a blast with this.

This game was just an awesome fever dream. There are so many mechanics and features in this game that were and are not easy at all to implement, especially in the time constraint you had. Voice acting, dialogue, fishing minigame (which had a bunch of sub-features like applying bait and more), currency, selling, buying... IT IS VERY IMPRESSIVE to get all this done in such a small time.

Now the assets... as I said, a 'fever dream'. There is a mix of all sorts of art in here, hand-drawn pictures, real-life pictures, pixel art and more. Maybe some people might be put off by the mashup but I found it charming. I got the impression you had fun making the game, and that made me inherently happy. AND THE MUSIC!? wild. I loved it. It did lack in a horror sense, but none the less, it was so fun. Had a blast.

Thank you! That is such a relief because my consensus so far is that people find it a bit too hard, which is definitely completely fair.. it is hard. I am SO excited to play your game too. It looks incredible based off the screenshots. Going to get around to playing them tonight. Thank you for playing mine :)

I appreciate this so much. Yeah, a few people have mentioned the mini game is a bit too tricky potentially. I can go back and tweak that in the future for sure. I just felt it was my only fun gameplay part so I scaled the difficulty a bit too much maybe?

Anyway, thank you so much for the feedback!

God thank you so much to for playing that much of my game. And far enough to make it to doctor meme! So happy someone saw it atleast. Super proud of that one.

Massive thank you .

I really appreciate your feedback! Thank you so much for playing my game. It means a lot. Yeah, I actually made the minigame quite hard because I felt the game lacked gameplay and I thought I could scale difficulty since I thought the minigame was quite fun to play. It definitely is something I could change in the future.

But thank you again for trying it out. I hope you get around to trying it again and I can't wait to hear your thoughts if you have more :)