Fish Fighter by Str8griz

made by Str8griz for Ludum Dare 56 (JAM)

_Welcome to the Fish Fighter Tournament of Champions, where top Fish Fighters from around the world gather to seek out rare, exotic, and tiny creatures, earn points, and compete to be crowned the ultimate Fish Fighter._

Left Click to start casting, and let go to see the hook fly

Upgrade your gear after each run to find and survive the tiny creatures

See where you rank. Hint, try and catch different fish, but running cost Stamina...

How To Play:

Mouse & Keyboard

MOVE: WASD

Aim: Mouse

Cast: Hold Left Mouse, swing rod and let go!

Space Bar: Quick Reel / Pull Hook From Ground

Scroll Wheel: Slow Reel

Tools Used

Game Engine: Unity

Art: Aseprite

Let us know in the comments if you found the Legendary Fish!

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Link	https://hotchickstudios.itch.io/fish-fighter
Original URL	https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/56/fish-fighter

Ratings

Overall	470^th	3.623⭐	63🧑‍⚖️
Fun	471^th	3.492⭐	62🧑‍⚖️
Innovation	653^th	3.158⭐	62🧑‍⚖️
Theme	865^th	3.183⭐	62🧑‍⚖️
Graphics	446^th	3.808⭐	62🧑‍⚖️
Humor	420^th	3.254⭐	59🧑‍⚖️
Mood	640^th	3.417⭐	62🧑‍⚖️
Given		73🗳️	116🗨️

Feedback

strong99

08. Oct 2024 · 13:03 UTC

Did not understand I was not able to catch anything in the tutorial area, but once I got passed it, happily surprised at the classic battle scene to reel in the fish. Fun and exciting way of fishing.

jk5000

08. Oct 2024 · 18:15 UTC

I don't totally understand how to play, and I did sadly never catch any fishes. But the idea is fun.

🎤 Str8griz

09. Oct 2024 · 06:48 UTC

@jk5000 Thanks for letting us know, we fixed the bug and it should work now if you want to give it another shot! Left click and hold while casting! Will give your game a look as well!

Shiiro 10psi

10. Oct 2024 · 23:23 UTC

That's an interesting way to do a fishing game. Really fun idea.

LarrySeinfeld

10. Oct 2024 · 23:38 UTC

Who doesn't love a fishing minigame! Cool, classic Pokemon-style fishing game! I enjoyed trying to explore and find good spots to catch rare or epic creatures. I'm pretty proud of finding myself a Thor Chomper and Sparking Sea Serpent! Great job on the game!

![FishFighterLD56LeaderBoard.png](///raw/f01/21/z/6888e.png)

SpiRiTs

11. Oct 2024 · 00:24 UTC

What a lovely game! It combines fishing with Pokémon-style combat mechanics. I loved all the different creatures, and the art and music were fantastic—they fit perfectly with the overall vibe of the game.

🎤 Str8griz

11. Oct 2024 · 01:29 UTC

@larryseinfeld you are the king Fish Fighter, I bow my rod to you and your Thor Chomper... However looks like you got a lower roll on the Sparking Sea Serpent... there may still be hope for the next Fish Fighter!

🎤 Str8griz

11. Oct 2024 · 01:42 UTC

@spirits @shiiro-10psi @strong99 Thanks so much for giving our game a try! We are glad you enjoyed it!

Pachino55

11. Oct 2024 · 05:40 UTC

Super cool game, will be recommending to my friends later

qwertyuiop

11. Oct 2024 · 05:41 UTC

good

RoTob123

11. Oct 2024 · 15:43 UTC

very nice strategy pokemon like game, is it web's feature that rod throws weird?

Lisek Gagatek

11. Oct 2024 · 15:59 UTC

I really like the idea and the fishing mechanic in an overworld (genius use of scrollwheel there). Very cool graphics and quite a lot of content. What sadly made me not enjoy the game that much was that text and animations were unskippable. I don't think it's really necessary to show the text like "Starting Rod used Crank" slowly appearing each time player attacks etc.

🎤 Str8griz

11. Oct 2024 · 16:16 UTC

@rotob123 There is a specific angle the physics/algo doesn't quite translate correctly... or I mean... errr it accurately represent the physics and methodology of a true Fish Fighter!

@lisek-gagatek Yeah that is a great point... I will admit because of the scope we didn't get to play test nearly enough! Thanks for the Feedback!

Dianavi

11. Oct 2024 · 22:46 UTC

cool game with a pokemon vibe. Nice battle scene with the epic music xD, and pretty graphics

Miku

12. Oct 2024 · 02:22 UTC

Ahah, interesting take on a Pokemon fisher's life, it was very pleasant to see the familiar battle screen and transitions. I thought the fish designs were really cute as well and could see me and another friend really getting into this gameplay fishing for the best scored fish. I didn't see much difference in skills, so those could be clarified a bit more, but overall this was a fun play.

ellearx

12. Oct 2024 · 03:06 UTC

Loved the art and animations! I got lost a couple of times due to the map being so big (which is very impressive) but I had such a great time! I´d love to explore it a bit more, discover new fishes and see everything it has to offer since it´s a very complete and solid game. Congrats!!!
PS: as a fellow participant i´d recommend you interacted more with other games so yours could reach more people, it deserves the attention! Another comment, the music choice for "the fish battle" is great!

🎤 Str8griz

12. Oct 2024 · 05:56 UTC

@ellearx We really appreciate you playing the game and providing feedback! I have booked all day tomorrow for playing other games (which I am really looking forward too).

@miku Thanks for playing! Yeah to be honest, the skills all pretty much have the same damage with the small difference of being super effective against specific type of fish. We ran out of time to clearly show that. In an ideal world you would be able to learn and trade ability to hunt the legendary fish of your choice!

Brain Siege Gameworks

12. Oct 2024 · 10:17 UTC

This was an alright game, pretty neat. Not a huge amount of depth but still. I however didn't know exactly how to progress.

HCS_Hades

12. Oct 2024 · 19:28 UTC

@brain-siege-gameworks The fish all have invisible weakness to one of your moves you need to figure out, damage should be 2-3x when you figure it out, the items you can buy from the shop allow give you defense/extra health/extra stamina to spend more time on a run. So ideally the game loop looks like - easy low value fish 1st run, buy upgrades to get better harder fish, repeat - then you can check the leaderboard to see if you are the ultimate fish fighter! There was a bug we fixed that essential made all the fish have the same stats so the battles should be harder now post that fix :P

MisaRavensoul

13. Oct 2024 · 03:36 UTC

I really enjoyed the cute music and the fun gameplay! I liked the little references as well!

Dabuliaoyidianer

13. Oct 2024 · 06:21 UTC

The idea is pretty nice

Dan_Nik_SG

13. Oct 2024 · 06:39 UTC

The game is cool, nice idea, even if i don't like such types of games i enjoyed this one. The music is relaxing and art is perfect, the only thing, why didn't you put an collider to the fence? And also, is this normal?)

![image_2024-10-13_093813800.png](///raw/2da/b5/z/68be5.png)

i bought just the first three one but those appeared in my inventory after one fishing session

Synapse316

13. Oct 2024 · 13:47 UTC

Cool! An intersting game.

Sibi

13. Oct 2024 · 14:02 UTC

Wow the amount of content in this game is incredible for a jam game. Unfortunately after 3 days the shop stopped working for me for some reason.

jonathandavidlewis

13. Oct 2024 · 17:53 UTC

I was entertained for a little while. I love the fishing rod and the string. I definitely liked the idea of fishing mixed with pokemon type battler. the fighting started to feel a little mundane and I never felt like I understood the relationship between attack types and enemies.

Pampo

13. Oct 2024 · 21:27 UTC

Nice pokemon-vibe! And it suits very well with a fishing game. Good job!

ditam

14. Oct 2024 · 06:51 UTC

Hehe, these stupid fish never see that bait-swap coming!

Patomkin

14. Oct 2024 · 08:58 UTC

Fun pokemon like fishing game! Game seems completed, main menu, tutorial and little store in place with enjoyable music :) Very cozy

Ranzor

14. Oct 2024 · 09:08 UTC

Usually, when i see a fishing game I'm instantly bored. But you made a game good enough to make me finish atleast a round of fishing. Good job :)

Prunus Padis

14. Oct 2024 · 09:57 UTC

Really nice looking and feeling sounds and art. Throwing the bait is little hard to get it fly far. I kinda cheesed it throwing the bait and then walked to the other side of the pond which dragged the bait where i wanted :D. I like the pokemon battle idea but it felt little lacking of variety/clearness what is happening, was there types? Also since this mimics the pokemon game i would have liked it more if there was somekind of "team building" for the equipment instead of just getting better single stats.

Lussard Studio

14. Oct 2024 · 12:21 UTC

Really great Game ! I'm surprised to see all the content and that level of polish. That's really amazing !
Nice job to the team :smile:

CGraen

14. Oct 2024 · 12:35 UTC

Really funny concept. Did not manage to figure out that counter mechanic though. Had fun trying it out ^^

kuggenhoffen

14. Oct 2024 · 15:52 UTC

Cool game, lots of content and nicely working mechanics. There could have been a bit more strategy in the fights, now they got a bit boring after a while especially since one couldn't skip the text parts.
Good job on the game!

GreenPig

14. Oct 2024 · 17:29 UTC

"Absolutely love this game! The mix of fishing and Pokémon-style battles is genius! The art and music are top-notch! Can’t wait to catch them all!

SCSDww

15. Oct 2024 · 08:40 UTC

really nice

Exa

15. Oct 2024 · 14:03 UTC

Omg!!!It is S-o beautiful!!!Nice job 10/10!!!

MistaGiggles

15. Oct 2024 · 16:21 UTC

![Untitled.png](///raw/547/14/z/68dcc.png)

I'll take rank 8 :)
Fun spin on the pokemon formula, great art and fun to play.

frozenfire92

15. Oct 2024 · 21:36 UTC

This was a really cool entry with quite a bit of depth! I really liked the real time casting of the line (even when it wasn't cooperating :sweat_smile: ). I think mixing the turn based pokemon battles was cool, but I think a real time minigame would take this game even further! Keep on making games :smiley:

LJ Wei

15. Oct 2024 · 21:42 UTC

Great game!! and I really like this pond leaper... XD. The text transitions are a bit slow, but overall it's really fun to play![cute.png](///raw/624/b5/z/68dfb.png)

LDJam user 174638

16. Oct 2024 · 21:01 UTC

Quite a cute and fun game! It gave me a vibe of pokemon safari park, the music is chill and there are a LOT of features for a JAM game :o
Congratz on your entry!

asfdfdfd

18. Oct 2024 · 13:24 UTC

I'm a big man with a big rod AHAHAAAA. Those damn Guppies...

Love you take on Pokemon. All UI, transitions etc adds to the value!

Wraithind

24. Oct 2024 · 23:30 UTC

Interesting idea. The RPG mechanics caught me off guard a bit. It moves a little slow for my taste and I couldn't really find much difference between how the different moves worked, it all felt mostly luck based to me, but that could just me my inexperience with the genre. Overall, very well done and well executed.