Das Riverboot by Sputnik3D

Das Riverboot was made for Ludum Dare 39 (Theme: Running Out of Power).
In Das Riverboot, you must balance the needs of your fishing vessel by feeding your ship's furnaces for power, and catching fish for sweet profit. Good luck!
How to Play:
Click on fish and junk and then DRAG/THROW them up into the ship's container. The line will snap after 1 second.
The goal of the game is to catch as many fish as you can to be sold at ports. Your ship's furnaces must be continuously fed or your ship will be stranded and you will lose. Fish junk out of the water to keep it running!
Be sure to pull your catches into the boat!
Buttons:
Left Mouse to aim and cast your line.
Left Mouse drag to pull your catch aboard.
| Windows | https://sputnikbytes.itch.io/das-riverboot |
| Windows | https://www.dropbox.com/s/398z202usc0cq2x/DasRiverboot.zip?dl=0 |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/39/das-riverboot |
Ratings
| Overall | 545th | 2.889⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 568th | 2.611⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 249th | 3.278⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 332th | 3.5⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 289th | 3.389⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 305th | 2.889⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 211th | 2.733⭐ | 17🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 16🗳️ | 18🗨️ |
I like the graphics & music. Consistent with the theme.
cool physics. simple, but convincing.
I found myself surprised trying to play the game more than testing, that's a good sign :)
The graphics and music are fine and minimalist (a style i like, it's readabme) and I like you take to the theme
I feel a simple explanation in game of how things worked would have saved me a couple of plays and I might have actually gotten the hang of things, even if it was a single picture of the game with text pointing to things. Having to physics things into the hold of the ship felt clumsy and if it would have just taken the items when reeled in then it would have been more enjoyable.
Graphics were pretty good, while music and sfx did their jobs well. A little more time with playtesting may have gone a long way here. I feel this is a solid entry that failed to convey what the player was supposed to do in game, and the clunky controls really added to the frustration.
I also had the issue that @Rothens91 had initially where I couldn't click the start button at all. I think that may have had something to do with playing it in windowed mode, so you may want to check if that is a bug and fix it.
Bonus point because I managed to stuck a fish on my boat without being able to catch it haha :D
Graphics and audio are good.
With nice feedback and controls it could become something really great!!