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Easy to grasp and replayable. One thing to note is that the words on the tutorial screen are very hard to read, and the arrow on Research Points made me think it was a button for some sort of upgrade page. Loving the art style\nWell done :)","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":634486,"author_name":"philipprapp95","author_uid":"philipprapp95","epoch":1619486736,"text":"Nice simple art, did you draw everything by yourself?","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":635556,"author_name":"FedeGelo","author_uid":"fedegelo","epoch":1619490091,"text":"I love the art style! The music and the sounds effects are good but they seem maybe a little bit out of place? The sound may be a bit loud. But overall the game feels quite good and looks lovely.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":642493,"author_name":"Jamie simpson","author_uid":"jamie-simpson","epoch":1619522873,"text":"@diabolical-sloth music was composed by LGM (link in the description of the game)","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":642504,"author_name":"Jamie simpson","author_uid":"jamie-simpson","epoch":1619522931,"text":"@jaeliinah thank you for your feedback! the tutorial was a last minuet effort much like the sound effects, so unfortunately it's how it is :frowning2: \n","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":642548,"author_name":"Jamie simpson","author_uid":"jamie-simpson","epoch":1619523152,"text":"@unbansheee I thought the arrow could cause some confusion, thanks for pointing it out :thumbsup: ","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":642549,"author_name":"Jamie simpson","author_uid":"jamie-simpson","epoch":1619523152,"text":"@philipprapp95 yes i made all the art during the jam!","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":642615,"author_name":"Jamie simpson","author_uid":"jamie-simpson","epoch":1619523399,"text":"@fedegelo I agree, the sounds are out of place and that's my fault for leaving sound for the last minuet :upside_down: ","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":648454,"author_name":"Seeko Studios","author_uid":"seeko-studios","epoch":1619543202,"text":"Nice little game, I liked how everything seemed hand-made. The only slight problem I had was that from time to time I would clearly see a fish being caught, yet it wasn't. Still, it is a nice game.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":648895,"author_name":"Jamie simpson","author_uid":"jamie-simpson","epoch":1619544592,"text":"@seeko-studios thanks for playing! I tried to fix that bug but it was too time consuming so I had to skip it.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":650737,"author_name":"steelax","author_uid":"steelax","epoch":1619550469,"text":"I love the 'art' of this game, its MS paint at its finest but it adds to its charm. the lighting effects and darkening of the water as you go deeper were also on point.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":677430,"author_name":"nsadie","author_uid":"nsadie","epoch":1619757996,"text":"A fun little game! I went down REALLY deep and did not find anything there! Would be lovely to have some interesting creatures at the bottom!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":686893,"author_name":"Too_Lazy_Cat","author_uid":"too-lazy-cat","epoch":1619950391,"text":"I like the graphics. Was that intentional style choise? Since that's pretty much the best i can draw.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":688060,"author_name":"Jamie simpson","author_uid":"jamie-simpson","epoch":1619976395,"text":"@too-lazy-cat yes it was a intentional choice, I chose this style because it took me very little time to do the assets so I could focus on other things.","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":691590,"author_name":"NotExplosive","author_uid":"notexplosive","epoch":1620101074,"text":"I liked the doodle style of it all, particularly the tutorial. I wish the arm were a bit more flexible (like maybe if it rotated towards the mouse?). I loved how each time a shark chased you it had some cute remark trying to lure me in (almost worked!! very persuasive). I was able to farm a bunch of points when I discovered the edge of the level where a bunch of fish were crowded up.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":695684,"author_name":"hamzaplayssssssssss","author_uid":"hamzaplayssssssssss","epoch":1620314688,"text":"really really really really really really really coooooooooool","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":697387,"author_name":"VixenMink","author_uid":"vixenmink","epoch":1620438147,"text":"Nice and simple.  Keep it up","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":697723,"author_name":"mehtoh","author_uid":"mehtoh","epoch":1620478608,"text":"I enjoyed the art a lot and the mechanics were great. I had a small issue of the game being slow (the reactions to what i did), but tbh I think that was my notebook's fault, so I'm not holding that against you.\nThe hand-drawn art was so cute and I liked catching the fish. :)","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"}],"format":"md","images":["ldjam-media\/sha256\/19\/1900c5782b58f79c63e94a3bf153408a9188ffe6d29f83888fb2dd6360b867e2.png"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/jamie-s.itch.io\/catch-da-fishies","text":"Link"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"76545","g_author":"1158495","g_event":"LD48","g_eventkey":"109","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"371411","g_title":"catch the fishies!","g_status":"WAYBACK","g_place":"1217","g_commentcount":"20","g_site2_node_id":"243670","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":{"n_key":"243670","n_urlkey":"371411","n_parent":"233335","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/48\/catch-the-fishies","n_slug":"catch-the-fishies","n_type":"item","n_subtype":"game","n_subsubtype":"jam","n_author":"158495","n_created":"1619185481","n_modified":"1776496997","n_version":"766517","n_status":"WAYBACK"},"node":{"_collation":{"body_sanitizer":"TextUtils::SanitizeHTML via existing importer","event":"LD48","removed_author":false},"_superparent":9,"_trust":1,"author":158495,"body":"play as a tiny sub and scurry around the ocean depths trying to collect as many fishies as you can for research while also avoiding hungry sharks.\n\nCollect research points by catching fish with your claw, get as many as you can in the time limit of 3 min.\n\nMy best score was 244 points.\n\nmusic made by LGM(J)   \n\n(bandcamp - 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