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Manliest Man : Manly Fishing

By omgnoseat

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Humor1033.48
Graphics3283.53
Innovation3753.33
Fun4823.10
Theme4973.33
Mood6872.86
Overall7093.03
Coolness146046

Comments

sharpcoder 2014-04-28 05:11

It looked fun. I Wish I could play it, but unfortunately my computer only has a keyboard :D

joeprogram 2014-04-28 14:09

You've got a great title, an awesome aesthetic, and a clear goal. The controls just need to be polished up so they work 100% of the time - it was easy to get stuck dead in the water. Nice work!

omgnoseat 2014-04-28 18:35

@sharpcoder
I put in alternative values in unity's inputmanager, but for some reason they're not working. I'm not sure if that type of bugfixing is allowed, otherwise I will put in a postcompo build.

@JoeProgram
Yeah getting stuck in the water is a real issue, I didn't have time to fix it sadly.

greysphere 2014-04-29 01:41

Funny premise. I liked the variety of fish. I totally want to wrangle and electric eel and get electrically charged for a few seconds and zap all the fish nearby.

milktoast 2014-04-29 01:42

Cannonball!!!

tyruspeace 2014-04-29 01:43

Nice work! It's a fun concept that's a little awkward using keyboard controls. Some sound really would've helped, and wish there were reasons to do tricks after your dive is over, besides being beautiful.

greysphere 2014-04-29 01:46

This is really cute. The controls were definitely much easier with the gamepad.

chipcaramel 2014-04-29 02:11

Simple, pretty, over all kinda fun for a small concept. I feel manlier already.

lonewookie 2014-04-29 02:26

Love the graphics. The fish are beautiful too.

danbo 2014-04-29 02:27

The water effect is really nice. Almost sort of like ridiculous fishing

omgnoseat 2014-04-29 02:52

Thanks for the kind words everyone. I actually wanted to make a move where you could hold on to the fish and strangle them haha. You would be able to ride the dolphin that way. Maybe I'll finish the game later.

stuffie 2014-04-29 16:55

Haha great premise, really liked the wibbly water! Nothing better than some fish wrestling to make you feel manly :D

kddekadenz 2014-04-29 17:12

Can't play this, Unity webplayer is not available for Linux OS. Feel free to send me a tweet @tinyworlds if you export a Linux executable and I'll play your game.

tobiasw 2014-04-29 18:19

Great variety in the fish art - and while I kind of like the tricks, they didn't feel to pay of enough. Maybe a bit more score feedback would've been nice there, and audio! The swimming feels super nice until you crash into something though, and jumps felt very satisfying to pull off. Good job all around!

vandash 2014-04-29 22:50

Love the concept! Interesting choice of keys for the controls :P

halbernacht 2014-04-30 08:03

It's a pretty neat game, though if you lack a controller it's sort of awkward to hit the controls.

tomvert 2014-05-01 17:33

Nice game, great art style.

dooleus 2014-05-02 15:43

If you make it so the bottom doesn't stop your horizontal motion it would control much smoother - that or just lower the bottom way down and make it kill you if you touch it - also have the ocean get darker as it gets deeper. I like the game mechanics and the art. I hated not having a restart button and just sitting at the bottom. I would also recommend making the player do a generic auto-dive if no special dive move is selected.

make-a-game 2014-05-03 16:11

Really funny and plays well. Could have used more fish coming from the left side to make it easier to boost between them and jump out of the water for some more manly tricks.

moosefly 2014-05-16 19:49

1480 points was my record after three tries. Although somewhat hard to control, the gameplay was pretty interesting. Some of the fish seemed to appear out of thin air though, and I sometimes hit them even before I could see them :P. Loved how the surface turned into a sine-wave after the game was over.

Anssi@MooseflyGames