We are a team of two passionate gamers ready to take on the challenge for our first ludum dare ! Hope to see you all around !

God so many fishing game around, seems everyone is loving fishing games :-p ! So here it is our Horror Adventure / Fishing game : (You will have to wait for the horror part, this is a prototype)

Finally finished our entry for this Ludum Dare ! We came up with a fishing / horror adventure game. Your quest as a worm will be to gather all the gems in the level while fishing (or not …)

The game is played only by mouse with the left-click button. It is best played with earphones and fullscreen mode :]

You can play the game here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/the-fishing-game-finished-for-our-first-ld

Off to sleep and happy ludum dare everyone !

Hello everyone !

We were very happy to participate for this Ludum Dare where the theme was very interesting. We were a bit sceptical at the beginning when the theme was announced because of the many possibilities we could find combining two genre. We had so many ideas and proceeded by elimination to find something that would be cool to make and to play. That's how The Fishing was born (thank you The Shining).

The idea

For that game we wanted to play the little worm that the fisherman throws to catch some fishes. So once he throw the worm, you take control of him and explore the depth of this...lake...sea...whatever, lets call it "the shining water" and well, you want to break free. So all along the adventure, your quest is to get rid of that rod (and optionally gather all gems for fun only).

The level

When creating the level, we wanted at first to make a "level 1 - level 2 etc..." but interestingly, the tool we used to create them was too slow and tedious to handle (each tile corner needed to be placed by hand, sides too etc.) So we decided to make one and only level where you just go deeper and deeper. And that turned exceptionally well ! I mean we were happy with it :) Unfortunately, we didn't acknowledge that there was a built-in tilemap tool in unity. And therefore it would have saved us so much time if we did know that. The free asset was perfect and handy, but placing them each one of them manually took a long time to do. And the more we put blocks, the more my pc started to melt, you get the picture.

So you have a safe zone at the top of the level, and more you go deeper, more it becoms darker and more tense. That is how we wanted this to happen, and we were happy of the result.

The sprites

I did 6 different fishes in pixel art, each of them have a swimming animation and a frame where they have the mouth open. We wanted to give each fish a different behavior to surprise you during the game, only the shark and the purple fish have the same behaviour. - the purple fish: When you enter his vinicity he pauses, open his mouth and start to follow you until he reaches you - the Shark: Same behavior as the purple fish - the nose fish: This fish stops, open his mouth and speed to the last position you were - Baloon fish: This fish is the least scarier and he just "puffs" when you get too close to him - Skull fish: This one doesn't pause, he goes in a limited straight line very fast. If you are too close you are good to start again - Lantern fish: It actually open his mouth but doesn't mouth, he waits until you pass above him... and strike like a thunder ! (We are very proud of this one)

Things that didn't get in the game on time

• Well, we wanted to make a fishing game / adventure game. And when you get caught by a fish, we wanted to focus the camera on top of the fisherman and activate a playable fishing game where you battle against the fish. If you succeed at catching the fish, the fisherman wins and he throws back a new worw (the fish doesn't exists anymore during the game)
• We also wanted to make it easier for the player to not start all over again when you get caught because it is at the moment really punishing you
• Sprites were inconsistent and I need to work on pixel art more to make them more appealing and consistent. You can see the fisherman, trees, plants, fishes don't have the same resolution and is not very pretty to see. This is something we should definitely work on.
• Different endings, when you gather all gems, when you capture all fishes and when you reach the anchor (but this one is implemented already)
• Make it more scary !!!!!!! (of course)

Conclusion

It was a great weekend and we are very happy to have participated. In its current state, our game is the original gam jam version. We didn't do a post-jam one because we try as much as we can to make it bug-free and we are very satisfied with what we came up. We had a lot of fun making it, we had a lot of fun playing your games too. This is our first ludum dare (we are 2) and we would be very pleased to participate as much as we can :) And hopefully see you all around too (with newcomers!)

Thank you for this wonderful Jam.

Have a nice day !

Heya,

I will just say which games hooked me up during this ludum dare and give you a link to them. I personally enjoyed them a lot. So I hope you will too.

DOTA: Defense of the Asteroids

If you have a buddy around play this one, its cute and fun and have a lovely design. It was fun to play.

Rhythm Overdrive

One of the most polished game I have seen during this weekend I must say. It was really great to play it and is super dynamic.

Rotatio

Great little game. Very relaxing (maybe stressful sometimes) but it won my attention.

Grid gunner

Cool game, gets messy quick but the style, the music and the gameplay is pleasant. Enjoyed it a lot.

Bright voice

Interesting one if you have time to solve puzzle with a touch of music. I must say that this is quite moody.

Disco death race

You feel so proud of you when you manage to finish the game. Seriously.

There is so much more game arounds that would deserve to be in our favorite list, but well I guess its already nice to share some of them.

Have a nice weekend ! :smile:

Don't you just wanna rub shoulders with them ?

💀 https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/the-fishing-game-finished-for-our-first-ld 💀

Hey its finished ! Finally ! I hope you had a great time and if you wish we can play each others game! :)

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/$99546

Well, when you encounter a pathogen that duplicates from your wastes, that is what happens.

Come and try Globulator! :)

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/globulator

Thank you everyone who played our game and congrats to all others ! That Jam was a blast ! like always !

Wish to see you around for the next one ! Take care all ! :)

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/globulator

Finally finished our jam game for this amazing ludum dare! Hope you guys had fun! :D Hopefully we will be able to try lots of your games everyone! Happy ludum dare!

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/43/suicidal-knight

Will you sacrifice everything during enemy waves? Even your own armor?

Let's see if you can beat the boss while running in the dungeon naked :laughing:

:arrow_right: Play it!

:arrow_right: Ludum Dare page

Well here it is finally, the new year and the results. And both of them were amazing. Thank you everyone for having played Suicidal Knights and for whose who rated it. It was a blast! Hope you had a great new years eve and we wish you the best for 2019 ! See you for the next LD !

Hey everyone, hope you had a great time during the jam! Here is our entry, you control a small bot in a puzzle genre game.

Thanks for those who will give it a try!

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/44/bot-escape

Hey hey everybody! Hope you are are fine all and that you had a real blast doing this LD! :) We finally finished our LD, it was a blast, and our first time doing a team up! :D

Here a little screenshot! and well have a good night!

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/seeds-of-hope-the-last-stand