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Fish Photographer Simulator

By jacksendary

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness1100
Graphics2513.68
Mood2673.28
Audio2953.22
Theme3093.28
Overall3763.20
Innovation4072.93
Fun5982.50
Humor6111.85

Comments

zer0xol 2014-04-28 09:05

Good thing you put ut linux binaries, the webplayer doesnt work in linux.

foolmoron 2014-04-28 17:30

The game doesn't capture the mouse cursor, which makes taking pictures kinda difficult. But otherwise, enjoyable gameplay and nice atmosphere.

khopa 2014-04-28 20:46

2070 pts, relaxing.
Nice underwater atmosphere with this music !

kepamun 2014-04-28 21:06

Soooo, pretty...

The game would benefit from Screen.lockCursor, and for me the mouse sensitivity was way too low. Still... Very Pretty.

gikdew 2014-04-28 23:37

very polished game!

hexabeast 2014-04-28 23:38

Fishes are realistic and this idea is original!

ryebread761 2014-04-28 23:40

Very interesting game! Quit button didn't seem to work (Web).

bentog 2014-04-28 23:50

This is good, but it seems that you are using the default Unity Mouselook script. There are several other Mouselook scripts on the web that are a loot smoother and some even have acceleration. Maybe making the camera movement smooth or with a lot of inertia would work better than just making it slow. The music is good, too.

rawani 2014-04-28 23:52

Great atmosphere and aesthetics ...

smilingcat 2014-04-29 00:01

At first, I thought I was supposed to walk along the bottom to find the fish, but I finally realized that the fish are supposed to come to me. After that, it was a pretty relaxing experience. Awesome graphics, and good soundtrack.

fortyseven 2014-04-29 01:20

Sweet idea! The fish need to scatter more when the camera is snapped. It's possible to pool large amounts of fish on screen to repeated high-scoring snaps: http://i.imgur.com/KMjJjU8.jpg ;D

sugarbyte 2014-04-29 01:43

Peaceful and beautiful, nice job!

kumokairo 2014-04-29 01:51

A little bit of relaxing after developing our LD game! :)

greysphere 2014-04-29 01:59

The water looks great. I like the reactiveness of the fish.

nicom 2014-04-29 02:34

Nice sense of atmosphere, very moody and relaxing, I got 13750
(must have been lucky, wasnt really trying) Great job:)

iamspencer 2014-04-29 02:58

simple but nice. Pretty relaxing, good job :)

thegamingproject 2014-04-29 16:33

I like the music in your game a lot felt very appropriate. Was really easy though I seemed to have beat your high score by a significant margin as I scored 322770 Took a screen shot of it for you: http://imgur.com/W1x2JTg

It seems that if you take a picture of a fish and follow it with your mouse you can continue to do this throughout the game. So I had a nice little school built up and was gaining over 20k a picture.

Fun little game, good work :)

elmogames 2014-04-29 16:38

Nice relaxing game. Awesome graphik and fitting perfekt to the theme.
But I think you are bad at your own game :) did 159900 in my first try.
http://imghost4you.com/?v=fishphhvh.jpg

jeffalisk 2014-04-29 19:24

Very much enjoyed this, it had a nice relaxing vibe. I like how the fish get scared away.

With some more devtime to develop more realistic fish animations I think this could turn into a game I'd buy :)

morganbengtsson 2014-04-29 19:37

Ahh, nice with such a relaxing game. An improvement, would be a somewhat clearer goal. Find a super special fish maybe?

solkar 2014-04-29 19:42

Mac build works, but you have to give execution permission.

jacksendary 2014-04-29 20:47

@morganbengtsson My first Idea was to make a few levels where each level had an objective/quest but sadly ran out of time as I had limited time that weekend :) I'm thinking on developing it into a phone game later this year

xtanner-danielsx 2014-04-29 22:27

Its a nice relaxing game. Art was pretty nice.

dusho 2014-04-29 22:30

lots of mouse driving..., nice environments

dookie 2014-04-29 22:34

I liked the atmosphere and visual effects. This could be a really great, calm little game with a few more features :) Perhaps more points if you snap only one kind of fish up close or something...

lemmingsurvivor 2014-04-29 22:41

This caustics effect feels familiar...

Good work. Curious to see how far you take this. Photography-based games tend to be inexplicably addictive.

danvil 2014-04-29 22:41

I like the peaceful idea. Taking photos reminds me of Beyond Good and Evil :)

terraco 2014-04-30 06:44

Ah, the serenity. This is relaxing.

adamwoolridge 2014-04-30 12:55

Interesting take on the theme! Unique photography mechanic

nichii 2014-04-30 13:57

Nice game, i remember playing a game that has the same concept as this on my old Sony Ericsson phone, the nostalgia of playing this. XD

jacksendary 2014-04-30 14:13

@Nichii Wow! I actually did draw a bit of inspiration from that game, I too had that on an old Sony Ericsson :)

mrexcessive 2014-04-30 15:11

Hi. Like the idea, nice water effects. Game took an age to load. Very, very unusual, at least first I've seen like this. Such a shame you can't swim around (or if you can I couldn't find how)

theengineers 2014-04-30 19:08

Fantastic atmosphere, love it

valid4life 2014-05-01 03:10

Loved the feel! Also loved the game itself! Reminds me of pokemon snap :)

dreii 2014-05-01 04:43

Beautifull watter effect! mouse was a bit undersensitive though. 14940 points :) reminded me of pokemon snap!

jacob-peltola 2014-05-01 10:08

Sweet game, I got a score of 78,780 through tracking fish as they run away ;) https://imgur.com/NMWB2d9

teamflare 2014-05-01 15:39

Very relaxing :)

Lucariatias 2014-05-01 19:35

Very pretty, in both visuals and sound. However, gameplay feels rather shallow - it doesn't feel like there's much to do. Perhaps add a photo gallery, and different locations, such as coral reefs, ponds, aquariums, etc, and require a certain amount of points to unlock more locations.

jacksendary 2014-05-01 20:47

@Lucariatias If i futher develop it which I may do later in May these are some of the prime features I thought about but thanks for you feed back, follow me on twitter if you would like to see the finished product :)

mintarcade 2014-05-02 10:59

Very nice experience. Quite relaxing and enjoyable!

oddly-shaped-pixels 2014-05-02 20:53

Super relaxing, the music is really nice. Gameplay is a bit monotonous though
Nice game overall!