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Fish Quest

By goldenpalazzo, Th3re4l_, GeppyTheCat, Nik_5, L4p0K7cK and Icronitar

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall17142.9028
Fun17962.4828
Innovation18962.0528
Theme5543.9028
Graphics13173.2828
Audio9263.1827
Humor8612.7226
Mood16562.7427

Comments

samarthmp5002 2021-04-27 07:10

Cool Game, Nice Art!

heidelbert 2021-04-27 07:12

Wow this is a HARD game for me. My fish is so sloooow but I like the idea as it fits the theme very well. It's a bit like a vertical flappy bird!

welby 2021-04-27 07:17

This game is very hard. I don't think I can make it to 50 meters. I rly like the beginning though, where the fish jumps out of the boat and escapes. It is very funny. I also like the explosion that happens on death which is cool.

voxel-forest 2021-04-27 07:18

Really nice game, I really liked the music! Tough, this is way too difficult! I couldn't even pass 20m...

dhim 2021-04-27 07:19

I can't move fast enough to avoid any fish! Neither with AD nor with the arrow keys! It does move a bit out of the way but very slowly and not very far ( I can't reach the wall for ex. )

is that a bug or intentionnal ?

Art is nice though. I'll come back if you @ me.

justuspan 2021-04-27 07:21

Congratulations for the submission of your first game jam! This game is extremely hard for me so that 37 meters is my best result. I think it need a feature that allow key to trigger going back home screen. By the way, the design of orange fish seems not reasonable, because it seems that 'go deeper' is more important than 'eat fish', sometimes it confused me. The music and art are cute! Good job!

jacudibu 2021-04-27 07:22

My record is 25m, this game is pretty hard! It would be great if there was a button to restart immediately, the starting animation is fun to watch at the first time but it just takes too long to watch every time to keep on trying... :D

iorena 2021-04-27 07:23

Very hard! Also would have liked to be able to restart the game immediately after dying, without going to the menu. The start menu was a bit bugged for me, space didn't start the game without clicking something else (not sure what, rolled over the whole keyboard) first. Solid concept though and nice artwork!

mrmedic 2021-04-27 07:26

Great adaptation of the theme, very nice art style. The runaway fish from the intro is my favorite. Well done!

I wish I could get further down. The controls feel a bit slow, wasn't very clear if my input is registered. I really want to see the real game starting at 50 meters, but the nasty non-orange fishes dart in from the sides without much chance to avoid. :(

pitivie 2021-04-27 07:46

Nice game, but really hard for me too

noskro 2021-04-27 07:53

As mentioned before the controlls are really slow. Does not feel like I have any control of the fish except of moving it right a (small) bit or left a (also small) bit.

nik-5 2021-04-27 07:58

There is a surprise over 50 meters ;)

goldenpalazzo 2021-04-27 08:09

@dhim I know it's a bit difficult. I'm kinda used to the controls since I played Ridiculous Fishing on Bluestacks Emulator (and the emulated controls were waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay worse than the original one). My PB on my game is like 73 or something like that, I suggest you to hold a direction for lots of time when encountering a bunch of fishes in order to keep a stable velocity and then slow down when getting past the obstacles

doot 2021-04-27 08:34

Nice music, nice art!

As stated by others, controls are indeed very slow and make it incredibly hard to react in time. I would love a way to restart quicker, without the animation. I went back to start menu every time, did I miss a way to restart faster?

Big congrats on your first game jam 💕

goldenpalazzo 2021-04-27 21:46

@welby @voxel-forest @jacudibu @noskro @pitivie @mrmedic @heidelbert @doot @iorena @justuspan by asking in the feed I decided to make another package on GameJolt with updates targeted to fix the game (separated from the ones made in the 72 hours of the Jam). Don't re-rate my game, if you can just please let me know if I somehow found "working" workarounds :)

doot 2021-04-27 22:10

yay, restart button and a bit more room to react! It makes the game a lot bette for me.

xxatrain223 2021-04-28 00:03

Good game! Having your fish naturally swim back to the center on it's own makes it feal a little bit more organic to me.

alchemic 2021-04-28 01:35

This is really difficult! I can't make it past around 30 or so.

cinar 2021-04-29 18:07

Cool and simple game. I like that it is so fast paced. But I think too long starting animation for a such fast paced game. It is a hard game like others mention but i think this is a good feature. Controls might be more flexible but this is a ppersonal comment. Good job!!

666savior 2021-05-16 20:56

One of my main complaints on this game is that it takes a while to start each run. Especially when you die instantly from hitting an enemy, i like to try to get back in quickly, and having to wait 10 seconds to have a fish jump out of a boat is a little momentum breaking. Its okay for the first run but subsequent runs should just let you back in quickly. Other than that this game is a nice challenge

etrealjunior 2021-05-16 20:58

Congratulations on your game, I know you have a lot of things to fix, but this is part of the process of a game jam, as you participate in more it will learn more and more to work with the established time and will have better and better results, keep studying and evolving that soon they will have good fruits of the work, if it is possible to give feedback on my game I will be grateful, a big hug.