The Dying Fish

papabirb 2020-04-20 18:30

I like it! I managed 89 seconds on my first try. The game kinda registers that I'm clicking around on this page to review it though, so the game keeps restarting whenever I click in my browser. Your fish can last 26 seconds with no player input, which is a lot longer than my game! I went for a seconds-based score system too. Our games are pretty similar, yet feel completely different! I love the magic of game design.

The pixel art is awesome, that potted tree looks fantastic and the fish is so cute! I like the color coordinated meters too, it makes things very clear even without labels. I do wish there was a meter to show the contamination of the bowl though, a good threshold for learning how much is too much. Or a way to clean the bowl somehow, maybe one that poses its own problems? Cleaner fluid that clears the dirt but is toxic to the fish in high amounts or something.

Audio would have been a plus: either you included it and it's not working for me, or you didn't include it and could have opted out of that rating. As is, I gave Audio and Humor each 1 star since otherwise all the ratings only count as 0.75 of a rating instead of 1 whole rating, which seems unfair to me.

Overall, I think it has a lot of potential with just a little bit of extra polish! I'm glad you and your girlfriend were able to make something together!

lexyvil 2020-04-20 23:51

@papabirb Thanks for trying! I managed to fix that issue where the game still takes inputs while out of the window. The toxicity of the tank is already shown in the corner as the green bar, and hopefully I can add the rest like sound effect and music on time.

almighty-games 2020-04-21 03:41

I thought the pixel art graphics were nice. I wasn't that engaged with the game play. Congrats on successfully making a game 'with your girlfriend' :)

jake-marks 2020-04-21 05:42

Awesome little game! I wish you could clean this poor guy's tank though :fish: Got to 130 seconds!

Played it on stream: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/598148668

jk5000 2020-04-23 18:10

Super simple and fun little game. The graphic is very cute and friendly. Overall a good jam game.

adriankrawczyk 2020-04-24 07:26

nice artstyle

marcusnystrand 2020-04-24 07:31

I think you should be proud regardless, because you worked on something fun together.

Besides, I think the result is pretty good given the short time frame

ryan123rudder 2020-04-24 07:41

Ha we both made fish games! Fun game, and nice arstyle

ursagames 2020-04-25 05:22

Hello! Your game was played during my stream!

If you want to know the timestamp of when your game was played you can see it in this spreadsheet: https://tinyurl.com/yau8hjzn

And then look in my latest videos and find your game being play (after the current stream ends) https://www.twitch.tv/ursagames/videos

nosfer 2020-04-27 11:39

56 seconds :) - nice art. Fish could've swim faster for the food and I don't quite know how to clean the tank bottom

colozz 2020-04-27 12:11

A simple but effective game, I loved the pixel art and the music.

The game is challenging, I always got killed due to contamination.

Well done :)

akitl 2020-04-29 11:05

good, but what's the sponge for?

xitaro 2020-04-29 18:36

hahha very fun game! loved the mechanic and the way that you handle stuff

datagreed 2020-04-29 20:14

nice variation on a tamagochi :)

lexyvil 2020-04-30 02:26

@akitl Thanks for trying! And the sponge is to help lower the contamination level when left underwater.

boaz 2020-05-08 06:46

Good game

2020-05-17 11:25

Nice little game. I included it in my Ludum Dare 46 compilation video series, if you want to take a look. :) https://youtu.be/W3MIuB5jBTw