{"author_link":"\/users\/fraukauz","author_name":"FrauKauz","author_uid":1081031,"comments":[{"id":1123916,"author_name":"Manuel Cabrerizo","author_uid":"manuel-cabrerizo","epoch":1744028820,"text":"I like this game, its very original","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":1123969,"author_name":"LDJam user 382954","author_uid":"382954","epoch":1744029771,"text":"Very simple but fun game! Even though I can just catch 3-4 fish in a round...\n\nI would like to know how your game background is implemented with shader? It looks cool !","format":"md","likes":3,"spam":"N"},{"id":1123986,"author_name":"Sharky3188","author_uid":"sharky3188","epoch":1744030149,"text":"Nice work, very solid effort for 12 hours! Love the rustic art style. Gameplay felt like it could have been a tiny bit more engaging, but overall good entry. 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Graphics are top notch aswell as the animations. I haven't heard any sound effects so I'm wondering if I missed smth.\n\nBut other than that kewl little game ^^","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1136831,"author_name":"un_kirik","author_uid":"un-kirik","epoch":1744182206,"text":"Very simple and yet so fun. Great job!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1137501,"author_name":"pe4Q07","author_uid":"pe4q07","epoch":1744194752,"text":"GOrgeous artstyle, the snapping animation is just the best part of the game!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1139939,"author_name":"AdamsMcCall","author_uid":"adamsmccall","epoch":1744227350,"text":"Love the handmade style ! It took me a minute to figure how to properly lure fish but once I got the hang of it it was quite fun :) I got 1200 on my first try :triumph: well done !","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1140557,"author_name":"FrauKauz","author_uid":"fraukauz","epoch":1744234169,"text":"@adamsmccall Nice score for the first try, I always messed it up and scared the fish too far away, and needed a lot of time and light to lure them back. \nOur highscore is 1600 btw (so only one fish more!) \n","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1140665,"author_name":"FrauKauz","author_uid":"fraukauz","epoch":1744235320,"text":"@pe4q07 @jona-scheidig @nacchan @ybzpp @yanzhi Thank you so much for the compliments on the art style.\nWe thought a lot about using this kind of \"watercolor\" art style - or using a clean comic look and size down all objects, which would allow to add movement and a level design to the game.\n\nI honestly feel very bad that I drew the \"idle\" animation of our main character with only three sprites or so, whereas I spend a lot more of sprites for the animation of the prey fish. I tried to do justice by animating the \"snap\" animation of the angler fish with a lavish 12 (?) sprites. XD","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1140847,"author_name":"clymm","author_uid":"clymm","epoch":1744238315,"text":"Straight forward concept was fun trying to lure the fishies in! The art and animation was amazing and the sounds are hilarious! great work :clap: ","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1141822,"author_name":"HelloImBenjamin","author_uid":"helloimbenjamin","epoch":1744263869,"text":"I saw the gif version of the fish on the main page and thought the designs were super cool\u2014was really excited to see how it would turn out. So glad to see it worked out, it looks amazing all the way through. Great job!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1142493,"author_name":"Nadan","author_uid":"nadan","epoch":1744281601,"text":"Loving the art style - great work! \ud83d\udc4f The gameplay is a bit short, but it\u2019s smooth and enjoyable. Really impressive, especially considering you made it in just 12 hours!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1142510,"author_name":"jeremyfa","author_uid":"jeremyfa","epoch":1744282300,"text":"I enjoyed this nice little game. The graphics and sounds go very well together. Audio especially is kinda hilarious, which is great :D Good job!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1147485,"author_name":"Moony_91","author_uid":"moony-91","epoch":1744456192,"text":"Nice game! Took my a little bit to figure out how to work the light, because the fish kept getting scared and run off before I could eat them, haha. ","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1149999,"author_name":"sayomgwtf","author_uid":"sayomgwtf","epoch":1744568854,"text":"What a charming little game! I LOVE the doodle aesthetic, I loved the simplicity in design, and the audio was my favorite part haha. Played, voted, and loved it \u2665","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1152061,"author_name":"FrauKauz","author_uid":"fraukauz","epoch":1744719620,"text":"@sayomgwtf @moony-91 @nadan @helloimbenjamin Thank you so much for the feedback! I wonder why we didn't choose the \u201cbetter crappy homemade sound than nothing at all\u201d route much earlier in our previous jam games XD","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1152636,"author_name":"Egor Iv","author_uid":"egor-iv","epoch":1744782774,"text":"Ooooo! ![ooooo.png](\/\/\/raw\/784\/3\/z\/6c3d3.png) ","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1154201,"author_name":"Empyreans","author_uid":"empyreans","epoch":1744980099,"text":"Nice short game with easy to understand game mechanics. Though luring in fishes from afar is pretty difficult.\n\nLoved the art style and mouth-made SFX :)\n\n### bloop bloop \n\n#### bloop-bloop-bloop \n\n##### bloop bloop\n\n![brave_c0L81b9Pzx.png](\/\/\/raw\/e7e\/c5\/z\/6c4db.png)","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":1154327,"author_name":"Halogen","author_uid":"halogen","epoch":1744997558,"text":"Great concept! Loved it","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1154409,"author_name":"Flying Dog Fish","author_uid":"flying-dog-fish","epoch":1745008743,"text":"Cute game. Luring fish is tricky as it should be, but when they're close enough, it's chomping time. The sounds effects are so much fun and the hand-drawn fish are really pretty.","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":1157295,"author_name":"Alvaron","author_uid":"alvaron","epoch":1745514754,"text":"Hey!\nThanks for dropping your link in my stream the other time. finally got around to playing. Liked the sound effects a lot, and the Handdrawn style.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1157626,"author_name":"FrauKauz","author_uid":"fraukauz","epoch":1745570174,"text":"@alvaron Thank you for playing our game on your twitch channel! Here's a fun fact: Since we never really thought about how to create sound and integrate it into our game, I simply did some recordings in a messenger chat on my cell phone - that was the quickest way I could think of. Embarrassing? XD\n\nBut in this jam, I definately learned that it makes a lot of difference, having sound effects and music, since it sets the mood and rounds up the overall look and feel. We will do our homework next time, and prepare a  more professional setup and make more use of it! Thank you for the feedback.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1157832,"author_name":"Ava Skoog","author_uid":"ava-skoog","epoch":1745604521,"text":"Cute! The hand-drawn art is really charming and the voice-based audio is a lot of fun. The fish designs (especially the angler, of course) are great. The round ones were quite difficult to get!\n\nI'm personally not very good at button mashing and it hurts my hand a bit so another input method would've been nice. Just holding the key might've been too easy but then again the main challenge was timing so I think it could work :)\n\nOverall short but sweet, with lots of personality!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1157980,"author_name":"FrauKauz","author_uid":"fraukauz","epoch":1745615799,"text":"@ava-skoog thank you for your feedback! We really haven't thought that much about the controls. During testing, I noticed that you sometimes skip the end of game screen because of all the button mashing: I initially had a \u201cpress enter to restart\u201d navigation built in. This happened so quickly that you couldn't read your score and restarted the game immediately. \nIt's worth putting more thought into this. \nI think \u201chold key\u201d also fits better for lurking... it doesn't make so much noise :D.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1158052,"author_name":"MoD_Wiz","author_uid":"mod-wiz","epoch":1745621451,"text":"Very basic, but also very fun, the use of light that attract and also reveal you and spoke wish are well done. And really nice graphics, those fishes adorable. Blub Bloob!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1158174,"author_name":"Ammonit","author_uid":"ammonit","epoch":1745642889,"text":"Amazing game! It's weird that I missed it all this time during the contest!!! Now it\u2019s one of my favorites)))! I love traditional animation, such a cool take on the theme! Super simple, but that\u2019s the key to success!!! Pure joy! Thanks for the emotions and good luck to you!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"}],"format":"md","images":["ld57\/wayback-placeholder.png"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/team-garnelio.itch.io\/angler-ludumdare57","text":"Web Game"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"96851","g_author":"1081031","g_event":"LD57","g_eventkey":"111","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"448311","g_title":"angler","g_status":"WAYBACK","g_place":"259","g_commentcount":"32","g_site2_node_id":"408206","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":{"n_key":"408206","n_urlkey":"448311","n_parent":"406845","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/57\/angler","n_slug":"angler","n_type":"item","n_subtype":"game","n_subsubtype":"jam","n_author":"81031","n_created":"1743333710","n_modified":"1779667866","n_version":"1307645","n_status":"WAYBACK"},"node":{"_collation":{"body_sanitizer":"TextUtils::SanitizeHTML via existing importer","event":"LD57","removed_author":false},"_superparent":9,"_trust":2,"author":81031,"body":"![Angler.png](\/\/\/raw\/78c\/31\/z\/69775.png)\n\n\ud83d\udc1f Play *angler* on Itch.io! \ud83d\udc1f https:\/\/team-garnelio.itch.io\/angler-ludumdare57\n\n# ANGLER\n>Ludum Dare 57 JAM contribution, theme: Depths\n\nIn the depths of the sea, a creature lurks for its prey... 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