{"author_link":"\/author\/dagothig\/","author_name":"dagothig","author_uid":"11227","comments":[{"author_name":"Perry","author_uid":"15778","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 1:37am","epoch":1346031120,"text":"I wanted to find another shop, but I couldn't find one :(. Nice little game in theory, I think it needs a little gamification, and maybe a map."},{"author_name":"dagothig","author_uid":"11227","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 1:41am","epoch":1346031360,"text":"Yeah, I'll have to rework the game quite a bit before it becomes worthwhile, right now, there are several things that need to be fixed before it is truly enjoyable :\/ (*cough* pirates glitched and won't spawn, other fishing ships just hug you to death *cough*)"},{"author_name":"Desi Quintans","author_uid":"14456","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 4:53am","epoch":1346042880,"text":"Maybe I'm just thick, but it took me a good minute or two of pressing keys before I realised that I needed to buy a sail and net and so on if I wanted to actually do anything. Giving the player these basic by default would have made more sense, but maybe you wanted the player to scroll through your different ship parts to see the variety."},{"author_name":"dagothig","author_uid":"11227","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 11:14am","epoch":1346065740,"text":"That was the intent, but I didn't have the time to properly make a half-decent title screen to explain to the player the need for a sail or oars to move :\/"},{"author_name":"gnx","author_uid":"8333","time":"Aug 30, 2012 @ 9:27am","epoch":1346318520,"text":"I have to say I can see a great game here if more time was used to develop it :) I like these sort of things with multiple aspects to them.\r<br\/>Graphics are also very nice and fit well together.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Definite wow-moment was when the wind suddenly ceased and I couldn't move :D"},{"author_name":"Syarahsy","author_uid":"17100","time":"Sep 2, 2012 @ 7:21am","epoch":1346570160,"text":"I really enjoyed this game. There was a bug that when I upgraded my hull, I ended up with 689.33333333333333337$ This game had a lot of depth. (The puns get worse the later it gets.) I would love to see this game fully finished!"}],"images":["ld24\/11227-27ad48b4852ca32f202286c7535b944b.jpg","ld24\/11227-d69cce1a846567233c9856bae1ea22e4.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/dl.dropbox.com\/u\/80086733\/ludumdare\/Home.html","text":"Web"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.mediafire.com\/?777bucr7u74w2z3","text":"Download (and source)"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"29639","g_author":"11227","g_event":"LD24","g_eventkey":"12","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"29669","g_title":"the Fisherman","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"99999","g_commentcount":"6","g_site2_node_id":"0","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":[],"node":null,"orig_images":["http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/163678\/11227-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/163678\/11227-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Before anything, the tools: Notepad++ for the programming, Gimp for graphics and Chrome for testing.\r\n\r\nthe Fisherman is *thrilling* game of fishing, where your goal is to slowly evolve your modest fishing ship into a master of the sea, collecting 10 000 gold pieces!\r\n\r\nBe careful however... as your ship grows, so does the envy for it!...\r\n\r\nthat's the theory of the game at least... due to time restraints (oh noes, who would've thought that could happen! :P) there are very few parts to buy. Sadly the core of my link between the theme and the game was how your ship would \"evolve\" as you got richer and bought more parts and made it bigger and better. With only 1 or 2 pieces to buy per type, that concept is completely lost...\r\nAlso, the game has been tested  very little and is likely to be kinda buggy in some parts. But it should be winnable at least.\r\n\r\nTips for playing:\r\nthe longer distance you travel, the more new shops will buy your fish more at a higher rate.\r\nAlso, the game goal is actually 10000, not a million, didn't have time to change the sadly crappy title screen.<\/p>","title":"the Fisherman"}