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What the fish !!

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness275
Humor3992.49
Audio10721.35
Graphics10952.30
Innovation11292.23
Mood12201.89
Theme12232.67
Fun12382.00
Overall12742.27

Comments

zerebruin 2013-04-29 07:59

Good gameplay. Works as expected.

I like the simplistig pixel style but a nicer font would have been a great upgrade. Also a bit of a pity the potato-thrower is a pink square.
Badly needs sound...

wrongcoder 2013-04-29 08:08

Sorry, I don't get it.

poohshoes 2013-04-29 08:09

Hitboxes were a little off and I kept wishing that the potatoes would fire in an arc but i really liked the dynamics created by having to avoid the fish when firing.

nakato 2013-04-29 08:12

Good respect of the theme.
Need perhaps some polish ... potatoes launcher is just a pink square, the boat leave the game screen sometime.
Graphics are ok

corofides 2013-04-29 13:13

It was an interesting game concept but I don't think the execution worked so well. You really needed to add some gravity in to so the potatoes would fire as expected. Rather than a straight line.

andrio 2013-04-29 14:15

I would have loved to have been able to move underneath. Shooting from the bottom-right seemed really awkward. It was impossible NOT to hit fish until the boats got really close.

deige101 2013-04-29 21:12

I don't think I could hit the boat. Cool idea though!

peggiosoft 2013-04-29 21:59

why killing the fishes that the boat caught lowers my score?
i'm not ending their lives, i'm just setting them free!

tiffi 2013-05-01 08:53

+1 for fishing

alwaysinbeta 2013-05-01 08:56

Nice idea. Gfx are really nice. Struggled with the controls. Would have been cool to be able to control the fishing rod.

ofursnati 2013-05-03 10:32

Nicely done.

_alts 2013-05-05 21:20

The combination of being stuck in the lower left corner, and the too generous hitboxes meant that I was annihilating quite a few fish before they'd had to chance to fully swim on screen. It also feels like the incentives to not kill fish aren't strong enough. I managed to get pretty far without "losing" a fish to a fisher by massively depopulating the ocean and then destroying the boat. So long as I killed less than 15 fish before the fisherman, I'd come out positive. Excellent work for one day, though.

mrblade 2013-05-06 15:42

Great Game! Love the graphics, feel, and humor. I love how you throw potatoes at boats. Hahaha, keep it up!

thomastc 2013-05-06 15:46

Would be better if the player weren't placed in a corner. It's really hard to avoid hitting the fish this way. Cute graphics, could do with some sound.

nickc 2013-05-06 15:52

Good job! This is a nice little game. I actually really like the art style.

However, as others have said, it would be nice if the potato launcher was more than a pink square, Hitboxes were definitely a little finicky, and some sound would have been nice too.

bvanschooten 2013-05-17 23:28

Graphics are nice enough, only the game could use some work. In particular the shooting mechanic is awkward. I keep shooting the fish that pop up on the left. Why not move the shooter a little more towards the middle? Also, what's the point of having a shot strength when the highest strength is always the best?