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Wrangler's Knot - Deep Dive Sea Fishing

By welby

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall6093.2231
Fun5333.2031
Innovation1643.7531
Theme3103.7931
Graphics6783.0131
Audio1
Humor2602.9526
Mood5083.1429

Comments

mahjoub 2021-04-26 04:48

Nice graphics & atmosphere, I was happy to discover that we could even fly haha :) eJsfKFU2n1.png

tomeks 2021-04-26 04:51

Very nice and innovative mechanic, like the fact it gets darker as you go deeper.

welby 2021-04-26 05:06

@mahjoub i originally kept that from happening with a quick-fix, but i'm not surprised the game still has that bug at this point, haha! I'm gonna have to add sky and space fish to make the most of the feature.

3lstmsinatrenchcoat 2021-04-26 05:10

I love the colour choices and the ambiance. Good transition from cute to kinda spooky.

tengusheath 2021-04-26 05:38

Really fun mechanic. Best part was discovering I could fly in the sky. The graphics are really cute.

sbug 2021-04-26 06:16

Lovely graphics and a really interesting mechanic. The game got a bit hard to control when the chain is supper long since the barge just keeps spitting it out, but great job overall!

jedemac 2021-04-26 08:32

This is so great, I thought I was entering a cave, turns out I was capturing a giant creature^^ Love the mechanic, so much potential with that chain. It's very satisfying when you can start to make huuuge loops.

codeglitch0 2021-04-26 15:45

Excellent game! This is one really sucked me and definitely has that completionist vibe. The strategy is fairly simple to make sure you get every last fish once you get a longer net, but I really enjoyed playing it.

chensu 2021-04-26 23:08

Love the graphic and the control of this game :) Love the lighting on the cloud, really good stuff. Keep up the good work

boclow 2021-04-27 06:53

Unique concept! It was fun to try to haul as much fish as possible and it was satisfying to see them get pulled up to the boat. Managed to catch the "big boy" after 3 tries as the net pulled it a bit higher every time before breaking.

chris-mondok 2021-04-27 13:56

Very cool, I really like the idea! I was a bit confused about how to use the knot, usually it would delete the rope but the fish were still left just hanging out by the boat.

mrnyarlathotep 2021-04-27 13:58

Nice compo entry, and good approach on the theme.

I would have liked a little more messaging on what was going on, like a bar that fills up as you catch fish to show something is happening, or an indicator on what my max rope length was so I knew it had gone up?

welby 2021-04-27 14:50

@chris-mondok Teaching players to "tighten the loop enough" before reeling in was a challenge. I was tight on time when setting the correct distance to collect the fish, so those distances are very rough. Thank you for playing.

welby 2021-04-27 14:53

@mrnyarlathotep I agree. I had ppl tell me that they didn't even know they could reel-in, which is the only way to reset the rope to the max rope length. It would have been a relatively easy fix too. I guess I was in a hurry at the end. It's rly a shame for me. Thanks for the feedback.

brigadeirim 2021-04-27 15:50

Great game! I love the mechanic and cute graphics!

rngames 2021-04-27 17:40

✔️ Very nice graphics and colours. I liked the lighting and depth effects in the water.

✔️ The controls and gameplay were very intuitive.

➖ The movement speed felt a bit slow.

eugenik 2021-04-27 17:49

Bit hard for me , but i like your artworks.

xpoho 2021-04-27 18:41

Я очень рад, что могу поймать таких больших чудищ, и они меня не съедят. Игра затягивает - как буквально, так и в переносном смысле. Спасибо! ^_^

airwaffle 2021-04-28 17:50

Yes! Sky fish, definitely sky fish! I scared all the fishes away, and once I did it was quite hard to get any back within my chain-boundaries. The name really helps with initially explaining the game, which is nice!

lalaki7 2021-04-29 19:17

Interesting idea but the physics felt pretty wonky. At one point I suddenly got launched up into the air for some reason, that looked kinda fun. Also like how it gets darker the deeper you go.

cinsynate 2021-04-30 21:11

It's a deceptively fun game for what it is! I think it has a lot of potential. The fish sprites were charming, but I do think it could benefit from some more work after the jam! I was able to swim into the air- and chase some fish ahead of me into it, which was interesting but probably not intended. I also found it was often more functional to lasso a bunch of fish and drag them up to the boat by swimming above it rather than using the built in wranglers knot function, but that would obviously change if you were restricted to the ocean.

hobzone 2021-05-09 22:41

the graphics are nice, it was fun when I discovered that I could fly ^^.