Virtual Fish Tank by Jay Berlin
Take care of some virtual fish by feeding them and keeping them healthy and happy. Over time your tank gets dirty, so you'll need to clean it to keep your fish healthy. If you fish get sick, you'll need to give them medicine to make them better. Accessories in the tank can help reduce stress and keep your fish healthy and happy.
* Instructions * - Clicking the "Add Food" button feeds the fish. You feed them 10 pellets at a time, and your total amount is 100 so be sparing with them. Fish will only eat if they are at least 10% hungry. - Clicking the "Add Medicine" button medicates the tank. Each fish will at minimum have 45% of their sickness healed, and each also has a chance to get most of their sickness healed. - Clicking the "Clean Tank" button cleans the tank, and removes any poop and food from the tank. This stresses your fish, but if you feed them, it will help reduce that stress. Cleaning the tank can only be done once every 60 seconds, and helps to prevent your fish from getting sick. - You can see stats for the tank, and each fish on the right hand side of the screen - The fish tank gets dirtier as food and poop decay. Checking the dirtiness combined with the poop and food counts give you a good idea of when you should clean your tank. - Each fish has a hunger meter. If this gets to 100%, the fish will starve to death. - Each fish has a sick meter. If this gets to 100%, the fish will die of illness. - Each fish has a stress meter. More stress causes you fish to get sick more often, and faster. It's a good idea to try to keep this as low as possible.!

Ratings
| Overall | 934th | 2.911⭐ | 47🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 1016th | 2.467⭐ | 48🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 647th | 3.144⭐ | 47🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 319th | 3.875⭐ | 46🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 709th | 3.144⭐ | 47🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 656th | 2.756⭐ | 45🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 768th | 2.183⭐ | 43🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 573th | 3.148⭐ | 46🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 109🗳️ | 54🗨️ |
I would consider adding names above the fish and maybe make them all a different color, so you can better see what fish needs what. Also after some time you are out of food and medicine? Any way to regain those?
It's a neat little simulator. I love games where there are a lot of little visual interactions happening in the background.
Is there a way to recoup resources, or is it just trying to optimize how long you can survive with the resources?
Could be neat as a tycoon type game, keep fish alive long enough till you can sell them and use the resources to buy more food and fish.
There isn't a ton of decision making or strategy as is. Still neat to watch the fish swim around and interact with the environment.
As for pacing, I was planning to speed things up a bit for the jam but I couldn't get the balancing right.
I'm loving the ideas you guys have. Keep them coming and thanks for the feedback everyone!
The idea was very unique as well and worked well.
I like how the fish float.
The sound is great. I know it sounds crazy, but what if you grow into the concept and build somekind of relationship mini game among the fish, like coffee talk.
Good entry :thumbsup_tone1:
:purple_heart: :dart: :frog:
Despite those criticisms, I think this was a very cool little tank simulator, and was impressively polished for such a short jam. Great job!
All in all, A good entry, I think. Just not for me