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Fish by maloki

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made by maloki for LD29 (JAM)
Click and/or drag to guide the fish.
Try to eat as much food as you can while keeping at least one fish alive.

Tip: Since the food (green box) is on the surface of the water, it can be pushed using the waves in the water.

Extra: Try leaving the fish alone for a few seconds. :P

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Worked on this solo and was supposed to be a compo entry, but I ended up changing my design less than 12 hours left for submission. That's what I get for being busy during the weekend. :P
Web http://goofydelinquent.github.io/LD29-Fish/
Win http://goofydelinquent.github.io/LD29-Fish/other/Fish-win.zip
Mac http://goofydelinquent.github.io/LD29-Fish/other/Fish-mac.zip
Source https://github.com/goofydelinquent/LD29-Fish
Web (alternate) https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/126776/Fish/index.html
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-29/?action=preview&uid=3790

Ratings

Coolness 52% 3
Overall(Jam) 3.36 273
Audio(Jam) 3.63 131
Fun(Jam) 3.28 203
Graphics(Jam) 3.28 410
Innovation(Jam) 3.43 177
Mood(Jam) 3.41 219
Theme(Jam) 3.04 434

Feedback

colludium
28. Apr 2014 路 20:28 UTC
Could not download.
bazld
28. Apr 2014 路 20:29 UTC
Shows "Failed to download data file" for me (Mac/Chrome). I liked the screenshots, was curious to play!
馃帳 maloki
28. Apr 2014 路 20:39 UTC
Thanks, updated the link to a Dropbox link. Hopefully it should work now.
petey123567
29. Apr 2014 路 06:44 UTC
Having a hard time controlling the fish, I'm not sure if my clicking and dragging is working or not.
j_peeba
29. Apr 2014 路 06:48 UTC
The game was pretty chill and relaxing and I had a pretty good time playing it. The minimalist approach works but still it felt to me that the game was missing something.
stephan_h
29. Apr 2014 路 06:50 UTC
What a nice game. Playing this feels like meditating. :)

I did not like the mixing of the art styles: The fish were like vector graphics, the food was 3D and the enemy (hunger or some sort of abstract threat?) was blurred Pixel Graphics.

Good job.
PaperBlurt
29. Apr 2014 路 08:12 UTC
Nice and simple!

Good job...
馃帳 maloki
29. Apr 2014 路 09:37 UTC
I guess it's not that instinctive. The clicking or dragging is like dipping your finger in a pool of water, trying to get the attention of the fish, guiding them somewhere.

I have the same sentiment with the art of the threat, just not sure how to represent it abstractly - showing that it's a threat, but not too menacing that it strays from the general mood of the game. >.<

Thanks for the comments! :)
Once Upon a Team
29. Apr 2014 路 22:52 UTC
This is really nice, the feeling is great moving all these entities, it gives a fluid control !

The mood is good too, the color are well chosen, feels calm and relaxing
dook
29. Apr 2014 路 22:52 UTC
This was pretty awesome. I think it would work perfectly on a phone or tablet. Some sound effects would be good too, but the music was nice. One suggestion would be to get the fish to follow the path you draw and not just head straight to the last place you touched, could be cool if you could try and get them to dodge the enemies. Good job :)
frickajr
29. Apr 2014 路 22:55 UTC
good idea!
vigrid
29. Apr 2014 路 22:55 UTC
Simple, pleasant and relaxing game - I like how you put together very simple mechanics and turned it into a relaxing game. Give it some more polish and release it for phones!
ruerob
29. Apr 2014 路 22:56 UTC
Very interesting gameplay. It's kind of relaxing with the slow music.
longshorts
29. Apr 2014 路 22:56 UTC
I loved this, the music is perfect and really sets a calm peaceful mood for the game. Minimalism works great. Top marks for mood definitely!
ren
29. Apr 2014 路 23:02 UTC
neat idea, would work great as a mobile game. I liked the music as well.
kibertoad
29. Apr 2014 路 23:04 UTC
Relaxing and great idea behind gameplay, but it desperately needs more detailed art.
Penguincat
30. Apr 2014 路 06:48 UTC
Very relaxing. I think vector graphics would've been nice for the whole game, but it still looks pretty good, and the music was great! Also, I agree with dook that this would work really well on a touchscreen interface.
Neonlare
01. May 2014 路 23:38 UTC
Very chill and relaxed game, took a bit to get used to the strange control setup. Nice, minimalist art style to boot!
savethejets1
05. May 2014 路 04:41 UTC
Simple yet cool.
Anoarith
07. May 2014 路 18:29 UTC
Wow, clever game design and use of the theme :D !

It reminds of this game : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOUNcfgWwkU

The music was cute !
skppo
07. May 2014 路 18:34 UTC
Slow at the start and sunddenly hard. Managed to get 36 :)
rojo
07. May 2014 路 18:38 UTC
Music was pretty good, and the gameplay was decent. An improvement might be a type of obstacle to avoid that pops up in random locations with a bit of a warning, rather than just blobs that chase you.
cptalbertwesker
12. May 2014 路 12:30 UTC
Very chilled out, only managed 28 :( I love how the fish multiply, at first I thought that the other fish were my competitors, but when I realised I controlled them all it was great to manage to catch a sneaky bit of food with a newly created fish!
SevenKingdomsSurvivors
17. May 2014 路 19:00 UTC
This would work well as a mobile app. Great job!