velvetlobster 2022-04-05 01:30
oh have I got it wrong or the fish is controlled by the scrolling whell? Captura de Tela 2022-04-04 às 22.29.44.png
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD50 → It's Cold, I Am Dead
By papabirb
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 940 | 3.33 | 35 | |
| Fun | 639 | 3.42 | 35 | |
| Innovation | 266 | 3.72 | 35 | |
| Theme | 602 | 3.73 | 34 | |
| Graphics | 972 | 3.28 | 34 | |
| Audio | 435 | 3.54 | 33 | |
| Humor | 167 | 3.92 | 34 | |
| Mood | 549 | 3.61 | 33 |
oh have I got it wrong or the fish is controlled by the scrolling whell? Captura de Tela 2022-04-04 às 22.29.44.png
@velvetlobster Technically, the fish is controlled by left click, scroll wheel, AND right click, because I forgot to specify and mostly designed it for mobile anyway. The fish goes towards wherever you clicked (or scrolled) your mouse and the tail spins towards that direction!
got it! It seems to move with scrolling, which I thought was really clever
I didn't get the goal of the game. What do I have to do ? What's happening ? How do I get score points ? Still, I had fun jungling with the different assets ! (I really love your game title by the way)
@jeanne-rossat I didn't have time to tell the player what to do, as is always with game jams :sob: the goal is to stuff things into the ice to keep it from melting away, so the cat can't get you! It definitely needs some work but for now it's mostly a fun pingpong physics game. The score is based on what items you plug up the ice with; some do better score points while others do better patch-up-the-ice amounts! Now that I'm awake I need to put all that in the description too :sob: Thanks for playing! Looking forward to playing buff penguin game!
Fun idea. The controls for PC (didn't tried in mobile) seems clunky, though
@lcrabbit Thanks for playing! What about it seemed clunky?
Made it to 5700. Not sure if that's good or bad. :D
I might just be extremely bad at fish flinging, but I could never quite get the fish to spin where I wanted.
Concept is cute. I'm not entirely sure what score is trying to accomplish though.
Had fun flopping about regardless.
Fish/10. Nice work!
@fireslash It's just a vibe of balancing items that are good for score, bad for fixing ice vs fix ice good but terrible score, lol. Thinking about maybe making the score into currency system post-jam? Like them good old flash game days, play the level then buy better stuff in the shop to make the game better, etc. But for now it's just high score stuff.
Fish flinging can be pretty challenging! It's mostly about knowing when to try to spin left (click left of fish), spin right (click right of fish), or just do nothing to let your little fish body push things up!
Thanks for playing!!
Amazing entry especially for a solo, It's kinda relaxing and fun to play around with well done! :smile:
@wassim Thanks! I had fun watching you play it on your stream! :smile_cat:
A fun little physics game that I ended up playing for longer than I expected to. Harder to control than you'd think, too!
Good job! :smile:
Thanks for bringing your game by my stream for feedback! If you’d like to revisit the play and commentary you can view the highlight at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1448957659
Fun silly little game. The shape of the fish around the axis of rotation made for some interesting effects where which direction you were swinging actually mattered. Great clinky sfx. Fun to pull out and play around with for a few minutes.
@skruffye Thanks!! Glad to hear you were having that much fun! :smile:
@marcmagus Always a delight to drop by your LD streams, thanks so much for playing! I had a lot of fun accidentally stumbling into the fish rotation mechanic during development, glad you enjoyed the result!
Thanks for submitting your game for me to play on my stream!
If you’d like to rewatch the playthrough, you can find it here: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1450143040?t=8h50m50s
Good luck on your ratings, see you next LD! :D
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I like the music a lot, its strangely relaxing. Kinda like aquatic ambience
@roofloorwall Thanks!! I was going for "aquatic urgent goofy", but ended up with "aquatic relaxing shakira", which is close enough for me!
I loved it! what a unique source of inspiration! highlight: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1451440143?t=01h24m45s
@tigerj Thanks for playing!! And showing off those cool 90s toys / that cool fishing game! (Which I can't play unfortunately, because only the app store version is available? Android is mysteriously missing...)
very original, I loved the mechanics and the sounds. I liked the look too. The video shows that inspiration is something we can take from many sources, congratulations!
@ulisses Thanks for playing!! it's true, inspiration can come from anywhere! ^^
I really liked the wacky movement of the fish, and the physics was frustrating in a good way. The visuals were a bit off, and overall I feel that the game lacked polish, but overall this was a really fun game. Keep it up!
@burningapparatus honestly one of the least visually pleasant games I've made lol, no time to spruce up the programmer art at all
Thanks for playing!!!
I hate that fish! xD Always I miss xD
@bios3008 Lol, it can be rough sometimes! Thanks for playing!!
As WTF as the video that inspired it, can't wait for the movie! :joy: Control(s) is a little random, but I managed to go to ~7k points, don't know if it's good or bad
@lereveur Lol, wow! That's a higher score than pomothedog's/arthurd's 5930 which was the previously known high score! That's almost dev score range (8955 is my personal best i think). There's a method to my madness with the controls, but they were a random decision when i was playing around with the physics coding, lol! Didn't realize the "move towards mouse" code I used would make the fish spin like nuts, found a way to break the code into two parts and control spin separately, and form there just had fun making it spin a different way based on which side of the fish you click on lol. Thanks for playing!! :)
A funny take on the theme! And very nice little mobile-friendly game. Visuals, music and sfx are all great and set the mood very well. Really enjoyed playing it!
One area where you can improve it is the cat's attack. I wish there was some sort of a sound warning or a more vfx or even both. It was not always easy to read before it was too late. But over all a very solid job!
Thanks for bringing it to my stream! Here's a recording in case you'd like to refer to it https://youtu.be/P3HI-2edlag
@caudatecoder Thanks for playing and bringing the stream clip by!!! I'll keep that in mind about the cat attack. Cat visuals overall definitely didn't turn out how I originally planned them so it's pretty likely if I continue work on it that it'll be much more obvious in the future!
Very fun game! I really like the idea but it's a bit too difficult for me to control my dead body ;(The sound effects are very appropriate ,nice work!
@alanblue Thanks! Yeah, I'm definitely gonna play around with some of the number values if I keep working on this game in the future. Thanks for playing!!
[Thanks for submitting your game to stream!](https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1457327946?t=03h10m27s)
This was such a unique idea, and I love the inspiration behind it. :smile_cat: Keep up the great work!!
@coleslaughter Thanks so much for playing it! It's always an absolute blast to bring anything by your streams, be it a game or just vibes! Keep up your good streams for me to bring my games by! :grinning:
Well, can't say I'm anywhere near the top scores, but I still enjoyed this anyway! The music is really catchy and I love the cute graphics. I'll definitely have to play this again soon and try to get a scoreboard-worthy score!
@peace-of-cake-games I'm glad you enjoyed it and had time to get to it this jam! I unfortunately wasn't blessed with the time to get to yours :sob: :pray_tone1: but it looked cool! Good luck in the ratings!!!