Stranger Fish by Millhow
Welcome to Stranger Fish !
You love exploration ? You love funny fish design ? Then, I think you would like our game ! On Stranger Fish, you can control a submarine with a shark design (we call it the Sharkmarine).

You can go down deeper and deeper to find many imaginary fish, some of them are cute, some of them are funny and other are creepy !
The goal is to find all of them the fastest as you can, your best score will be displayed on the main screen if you want to challenge you to beat it again.
We hope that you will enjoy your exploration and will like our funny little fishes !

| Link | https://millhow.itch.io/stranger-fish |
| List of all fishes | https://zupimages.net/up/21/17/c3bh.png |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/48/stranger-fish |
Ratings
| Overall | 1129th | 3.395⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 1307th | 3.079⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 1475th | 2.789⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 893th | 3.658⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 387th | 4.132⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 383th | 3.421⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 522th | 3.789⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 5🗳️ | 9🗨️ |
I think one thing i struggled with was finding the fish in each step. Maybe something like a sonar that can be used once every so often would help, otherwise i found myself swimming around for ages trying to find the last fish on a step.
@rob-parker I'm happy that you've enjoyed the idea of the game ! We didn't think about adding a sonar but you have a point it would be a interesting feature to add, when we release it we think that finding the last fish would add some difficulty on the game but I agree that it can be frustrating :cry:
I only found 2 out of 3 of the fish in each stage ... I swam around a lot too, but I guess I didn't have the patience. It would have been nice to be able to zoom in on each fish you find after you collect them. Some of them looked super cute and creative, but I wasn't able to see them for very long before my sharkmarine just gobbled them up.
The light at the bottom was a nice touch.
I like the above sonar suggestion. Other improvements could be making the environment more visually interesting or even dangerous, or having finding the fish give you something that would help you explore deeper.
Did I mention these graphics are a delight?
@carraka I just add on the bottom game page and in links on the ludum page a picture with all the fish :fish: Hope you will enjoy them :smiley:
Had the same issue with the controls. But that already was reported, so lets go onto some things with the gameply that I would improve:
Most of the gameplay for me felt like luck. I just swam around and waited for the fish to spawn. So there was no real challenge for me. I think it would be better to add a bit of vhallenge or player involvement like a sonar wich was mentioned earlier. Also I thought that the area was pretty empty. If there was a fish it was the fish that I needed to collect. So having more dofferent kind of fish swim around would be more interesting and also would add a bit of challenge to find the correct fish.
Well done and I hope my feedback helps. Cheers
Good job.