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Everybody Hates The Fishboy

By cgriff

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Humor3303.00
Audio4222.82
Innovation5202.91
Mood6452.70
Fun6682.73
Overall6692.91
Graphics6802.64
Theme7872.76
Coolness175236

Comments

darkhaul 2015-08-23 19:24

Nice idea, controls feel a bit clunky at times and the jumping feels a bit like you dont go as high as you should sometimes.. but not bad really

Revolving Ocelot 2015-08-24 10:01

I feel the creator took a very narrow view of what a "monster" is. On the one hand, a deformed child who just wants to be left alone to swim off into the sunset, and on the other, a world that puts a child in a tank and sends drones and mines to kill him while onlookers watch and cheer for his death.

I did love the two versions of the music track though.

madjackmcmad 2015-08-24 11:21

Dynamic music? Way to go! :) I think my ability to jump got capped somehow, I went really high one time and from then on no matter how deep I dove, I could only get one fish-height out of the water.

garvon 2015-08-24 11:26

Windows version doesnt seem to work. Looks liek you didnt include data folder.

amras0000 2015-08-24 11:32

First off, issues with the downloads:

Windows - I get a "Data Not Found" error: "There should be 'EverybodyHatesTheFishboy_Data'
folder next to the executable"
Unity should have made a data folder in the same directory as your .exe, make sure to include that in the zip

Web - there's a "development build" watermark - make sure to unselect that when you build a finished game

As far the game, I couldn't seem to get the leap to be consistent. Sometimes it'd be a proper full-screen leap from a very short dive, but usually it ended up just being a tiny splash no matter how far down I went.
A tiny bit more movement speed (both horizontal and vertical) would have helped a lot, the game feels very sluggish.

cgriff 2015-08-24 11:39

Sorry about the bad Windows link! It's fixed now.

designernap 2015-08-24 11:39

Great writing and humor. Laughed a lot playing this! Good work :)

linuus 2015-08-24 12:14

This was a lot of fun to play! But the controls feels a bit unresponsive and jagged, but that's okey concidering the time limit.

deadeyejoe 2015-08-24 12:15

Cool game and mechanic ! great job :)

cultofmonkey 2015-08-24 12:16

A bit clunky, but interesting idea. Audio got a bit annoying. Feels like it has a lot of potential though!

tlansdale 2015-08-24 13:04

Poor fishboy! *I* will mourn him.

kaev 2015-08-24 14:28

Sometimes i lost energy and i don't know why. Besides that it's very nice. :)

raspadsistema 2015-08-24 15:05

Love the music change for when below and above the water. Power jump doesn't always work good. All in all nice art considering its made from basic blocks.

grhyll 2015-08-24 15:13

Now that I read the comments, I'm wondering if there is more to the game than the phase where you go on and smash drones? DesignerSnap talked about "Great writing and humor", but I haven't seen writing...
About the game I played, it's well done, although as other said, a control of the Fishboy with more "physic" would have been a plus (and I think I too had the bug where I couldn't jump high anymore even if I dived, but it worked again later on...)
That Fishboy looks quite sexy :P

tayl1r 2015-08-25 22:30

are they fish
or are they kids

crucknuk 2015-09-13 11:29

I felt i could die just indefinitely, is that right?
i liked the minimalist graphics, and it could have been great if the gameplay wasn't too rigid cause i felt slow. but otherwise it is nice, keep up! :)

catmoo 2015-09-13 16:58

Poor fishboy, I cared about his death! Really enjoyed playing it, took a game to get used to how much height I could gather :)