The death of your uncle does not seem accidental: what does disfigurement have to do with drowning? It does not look like the fish were that hungry for the man's face. You decide to dig deeper into this story and end up finding more than you hoped for. Your experience with fishing will never be the same.
"The Thing in the Lake" is the (provisory) title of the game I'm currently working on for the #FishingHorrorJam. I hope it gives you the idea that there is something in a lake :-P
It is a pixel horror game made with Bitsy. It is an adventure/interactive fiction kind of game in which you explore and interact with objects/people.
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For a while, I've been wanting to make a game with a creature in it. As I brainstormed ideas for this project, I found a sketch of a "thing" I drew in 2018. Because I quite liked it back then, I decided to use it in this game and give the creature in the sketch a full purpose.
As you can see, the poor thing did not have a complete body back then, and because the game has to do with fishing, I thought... why not create some kind of creepy mermaid/merman? And that is how the creature was reborn.
But the creature is not the protagonist of this game (I hope that is not a spoiler!). You play as someone investigating their uncle's "mysterious" death. You explore a park that leads you to a lake. From there, it's up to you to find out more ;-)
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More devlogs to come!
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