FISH! by poxpoxpox

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made by poxpoxpox for LD29 (COMPO)
A fishing game.
Move with left and right arrow. Fish with spacebar.

Have fun!

(My first Ludum Dare btw)

Ratings

Coolness 50% 3
Overall 3.46 289
Audio 2.72 586
Fun 3.37 292
Graphics 3.22 520
Humor 2.44 550
Innovation 2.85 713
Mood 2.67 836
Theme 3.48 357

Feedback

Gaeel
28. Apr 2014 · 20:42 UTC
The way the boat moves n.n

Not really sure how the point system works, maybe some "Well done!" "Combo x5!" and "+200" would make things easier to grok.

OTOH, its simple, has a nice scoring system, and makes me want to try a couple times to get a better score

Also...

That little boat tilt animation <3
ActionRemix
01. May 2014 · 04:44 UTC
Fishing line animation and control are top notch.
pansapiens
01. May 2014 · 04:56 UTC
Just a note for others - if you get the "Requires msvcp120.dll error", install the Visual C++ Redistributable Packages: http://www.microsoft.com/en-au/download/details.aspx?id=40784 - only the x86 version worked for me, even on 64-bit Windows 7.
pansapiens
02. May 2014 · 03:00 UTC
Solid & complete game, fun to play - great work. Not sure I get the visual instructions on the title screen (purplefish < turtle ?), but I was able to figure out the scoring by trial and error. I agree with Gaeel with regard to better feedback on combos - I never figured out if 3x was just three fish on line, or if I was getting a score multiplier.

As requested yesterday .. I played it on Twitch :) http://www.twitch.tv/omgwtfgames/c/4171677 -- was good enough to keep coming back to, filling the time while other games downloaded :)
Ryan up in here
02. May 2014 · 12:43 UTC
Dude our games look very similar. Nice work.
Troy
03. May 2014 · 08:23 UTC
Great game! A little more feedback on how the scoring system would be amazing. Otherwise shows great polish for something made something in so little time. Nice work!
petey123567
03. May 2014 · 08:24 UTC
Great first entry!
Chinchilla
03. May 2014 · 08:25 UTC
Nice little game! Could be pretty addictive if it had online leaderboards, maybe.
SnoringFrog
03. May 2014 · 08:30 UTC
Reminds me of the fishing game I used to play for Atari. Simple, but fun. Good stuff. :)
01F0
03. May 2014 · 09:23 UTC
Great work on the fish AI, that black fish sure makes it tricky catching fish.. (in a good way!) I really like the feeling of throwing out the fishing line, the way it "applies" the throw when you release the space button. Top score: 2660.
Fox_in_sox
03. May 2014 · 12:41 UTC
This is the second game I am missing msvcr120.dll for. Any tips on how to make it run on 64-bit system?
BrothersT
03. May 2014 · 15:29 UTC
interesting game. I could kind of break it by moving once i had the fish on the hook, then all I'd have to do was double tap space to get the points.
hbocao
03. May 2014 · 17:45 UTC
Simple and little, but complete game. Well done. The game would definitely benefits from an online high score board.
SlipperyPete
04. May 2014 · 01:15 UTC
This is cool, cool cool cool. My mother has no idea how to play, her high score is a fifth of my lowest score,
SnoringFrog
07. May 2014 · 04:54 UTC
Hey, I got the OSX version of my game up and working again. I'm not sure why it went down, but I was able to download and play it without any issues just a moment ago.
csanyk
12. May 2014 · 04:40 UTC
"The program can't start because MSVCP120.dll is missing from your computer. Try reinstalling the program to fix this problem."
csanyk
12. May 2014 · 04:44 UTC
And after finding MSVCP120.dll and installing it, "The applicatoin was unable to start correctly (0xc000007b). Click OK to close the application.

Too bad, I really wanted to try this out. It looks a lot like Activision's Fishing Derby for Atari 2600, and I was curious to see how it played.
csanyk
12. May 2014 · 04:53 UTC
Got it running by installing the Visual C++ 2013 x86 package as pansapiens recommended, and I really liked it! Could be a direct sequel to Fishing Derby!
bvssvni
12. May 2014 · 19:12 UTC
This was brilliant!