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I think it could've been a more fleshed out game if you went for a Physics velocity approach for the fish movement and made it a bit less forgiving if you bump into walls and stuff.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":625248,"author_name":"bw_devel","author_uid":"bw-devel","epoch":1619437807,"text":"Things I liked:\n- The art style is good\n- The core game loop feels good\n- overall a fun game!\n\nImprovments:\n- something that makes the game loop a bit more obvious; I'm not sure what was happening at the end until I read the post\n- Add some type of growing complexity that encourages people to play over and over (maybe it's a multi-dimensional space-time octopus!)\n- make he crabs march back and forth on their platforms for added complexity\n- some swimming sounds for when you charge to eat (and a biting sound when you catch food)\n- a splash sound when you land in the water at the beginning\n- swim particles when you boost to eat\n- splash particles when you land in the water at the beginning\n\n\n\nBugs:\n- didn't find any","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":630676,"author_name":"neonjeff","author_uid":"neonjeff","epoch":1619467852,"text":"I didn't even realize how to eat fish the first time through and had 0 at the end ... second time I had 15... not sure what is supposed to happen or change at the end?  I like the style and mechanics though.  I wish I could swim faster though.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":635851,"author_name":"Predominant","author_uid":"predominant","epoch":1619490890,"text":"Wasn't sure what to do at first, but accidentally pressed space and figured it out. Good work!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":669015,"author_name":"Zackary Bazzle","author_uid":"zackary-bazzle","epoch":1619658573,"text":"Nice Work, there were a few things I didn't understand until after I read the comments, but overall a nice compo game, Good Job","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":687551,"author_name":"Volodya","author_uid":"volodya","epoch":1619965652,"text":"I like the artstyle and graphics overall, though gameplay and sounds are lacking\n","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"}],"format":"md","images":["ld48\/wayback-placeholder.png"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/github.com\/pettipas\/LD48","text":"the code"},{"url":"https:\/\/internetpaulicy.itch.io\/fish-loop","text":"web"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"75977","g_author":"1005083","g_event":"LD48","g_eventkey":"109","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"370562","g_title":"Fish Loop","g_status":"WAYBACK","g_place":"99999","g_commentcount":"7","g_site2_node_id":"240951","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":{"n_key":"240951","n_urlkey":"370562","n_parent":"233335","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/48\/fish-loop","n_slug":"fish-loop","n_type":"item","n_subtype":"game","n_subsubtype":"compo","n_author":"5083","n_created":"1618982432","n_modified":"1778361208","n_version":"748378","n_status":"WAYBACK"},"node":{"_collation":{"body_sanitizer":"TextUtils::SanitizeHTML via existing importer","event":"LD48","removed_author":false},"_superparent":9,"_trust":2,"author":5083,"body":"HTML 5 on itch: https:\/\/internetpaulicy.itch.io\/fish-loop\n\n\nThis game delivers a small narrative concept and lots and lots of googly eyes. \n\nI was interested in adding a narrative element to a simple game concept. 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