Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD54 → Fishy Business
By zerohalogen, Leonid Fedorov and badunius
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 473 | 3.66 | 30 | |
| Fun | 647 | 3.33 | 30 | |
| Innovation | 413 | 3.53 | 30 | |
| Theme | 788 | 3.30 | 30 | |
| Graphics | 271 | 4.10 | 30 | |
| Audio | 200 | 3.80 | 30 | |
| Humor | 237 | 3.61 | 29 | |
| Mood | 196 | 3.98 | 30 |
Would be nice with a story or a tutorial in the beginning of the game, took a little time to understand how to move the boat. Fun concept and simple game, pretty slow pace, but that is sometimes what a game should be! Well done :clap:
Also want to add, love the walk on MC, you can actually see the toll of having a wooden leg
I love this game for its small details like the cought of the character,and other staff , graphics and upgrade system ,you are amazing
I liked it. I couldn't stop laughing while trying to control the boat and fish at the same time :) turns out, I had to stop it.
Good game
So I recorded myself playing, but uh... my OBS were using my "record a web game" preset instead of my fullscreen one... so I sincerely apologize for the world's most poorly cropped let's-play.
In any case, this was a nice and relaxing game! The biggest comment I made in my video was "I encountered about 10 fish traders in a row before the upgrade-shop. Perhaps setting a hard coded limit of like- 3 fish traders before forcing the next one to be the upgrade shop?" Anyway, here's the video: (Again, sorry for the bad cropping)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1Asa1IxR74
This game too has a lot of potential. The gameplay is a bit rigid but the atmosphere is really pleasant.
Well done graphics and animations.
It could evolve in so much more ! Congrats
Incredible atmosphere! This feels like a diamond in the rough. Perhaps this could be the new Paper's Please.
Great little game I feel like it has some potential to be expanded. It has a good core loop. I can definitely see some events being added to spice things up:D Overall I really enjoyed it. I find it funny how he kicks the music box haha
Nice little fishing game. Everythings built up really well and I like the fact you can turn on or off the music. Graphics are great and the fishing loop is nice. Addition of upgrades + the inspection mechanics are great. Couldnt get to everything as its paced a bit slowly for a jam game but enjoyed the stuff I did
Very cool game! Graphics, audio and ambiance are nicely made, gameplay is slow but I liked it this way. I liked throwing my fishes to avoid paying licence that was very funny, also really stable and even when I tried to break the game it didn't crash or bug, great job !
I just found a little bug where you can hold the lever for the net and go away to keep it down, but that's all. Great work it's a very nice game !
thanks for your feedback guys <3
I played this game for a long time compared to most of the other jam games. Great concept. I really wish that I was on deck where I could look at the pretty ocean, as opposed to the hull. I also wish I could upgrade the speed of my net.
This would make a great multiplayer game
* NOW WE HAVE AN HTML5 VERSION * https://zerohalogen.itch.io/fishy-business
Haha neat little game, the management~ I love the atmosphere all-together, the graphics, music all of it fits and creates quite the mood.
Jolly little game! ^^
Okay, thats fun. The concept works. I would that map in the top left corner, instead of bottom center. Very creative.
I really like the idea and the ambience. Everything sounds correct and I feel like I am indeed on a fishing boat - so overall the theming is very nice. Unfortunately, the pacing is extremely slow and it can feel a bit tedious. With a couple of small tweaks, I think the game play loop could be a lot more fun and engaging:
* The net could be a hoop with a limited collision radius. You still hold E to lower it and release E to raise it. * Fish that touch the net would be caught instantly. (the fishing magnet could then increase the radius of the net a little bit) * Spawn way more normal fish and far fewer fish that require licenses or are illegal. I shouldn't have to catch a bitcoin wallet in a bottle or several locked safes to upgrade my engines :laughing: - I should be able to do it the fair and honest way - catching fish! :wink: * The fish should spawn in a greater range (up and down) * fish move slowly to the left or right, and sometimes change directions, adding a bit of skill/effort on the player's part.
With these few changes, the player has something to do other than run from the throttle to the net and back (and occasionally sprinting to the cargo hold to dump contraband as the police approach)
Some other things: * Color the icons so that backgrounds for illegal fish are red (not just named "Red Herring", although I appreciate the humor :smile:) and ones that require permits are orange. Treasure could be purple or blue. * Fining and confiscating "permit only" fish works well, but going to jail and it being "game over" could be replaced with the police simply taking all of your money and cargo for "illegal" fish (something like "we have to do a full inspection of your cargo to make sure there aren't more of these") * I like that the game has "secrets" but I don't really know what the goldfish does - perhaps I could pay a small fee to the fish buyer and the tooltip will change to be something more helpful. * Perhaps I should have to stop the boat to talk to the police and the traders. I realized later I didn't need to actually stop, I could just walk over to the radio. However, being able to do a drive-by fish sale might keep the pacing nice and quick though :slight_smile:
Some polish ideas (if only we all had more time :wink:) * It'd be nice to see the outside of the ocean passing by. Would combine very nicely with the rocking of the ship interior (I appreciated the bottle rolling back and forth) * balancing of the fish values and upgrades. * Maybe the fisherman can upgrade his peg leg so he can walk faster too
All in all, I spent a decent amount of time playing this and did enjoy it - I just wish the pacing was improved. Nicely done!
Walked like a fisherman, smelled like a fisherman, burped like a fisherman. And as I sailed there with him, even i started to get aroused by that poster on those lonely seas.
Music loop was a little short and repetitive, but you can turn that off if you like, so nice.
Nice game to chill and relax. Till the cops come!
As someone who played a lot of fishing type games, I really enjoyed what the game offered. However I think if the start gave more of a tutorial it would have been easier to get into and understand how to progress. I liked a few of the aspects of the game and wish they could be expanded further like changing the types of fishing to add more variety of nets for different fish. My minor peeve was I got a game over within a minute of starting the game the first time as I had sold my fish, then I guess in my cargo I had some illegal fish I caught just prior to the police getting there and you're supposed to discard them before they get to you? However on a later attempt they called me before being next to the boat? Atmosphere was nice though. Overall I enjoyed it and hope you keep making more fishe games XD.
thanks for the feedback @kitkii ! We decided to make a full-fledged version for sale on Steam, with a lot of content, user-friendly tutorial, completely redrawn and with Unreal Engine 5. wish us luck X)
I really enjoyed this game. The graphics were really polished and the music went really well with the game. The atmosphere was brilliant!
The graphics and mood are charming, I really like the setting! I liked the use of the theme, and some of the items were pretty funny, as well as the whole idea of needing a fising permit The gameplay is relaxing, pretty slow paced but the core loop is pretty good, I'd really like to see this expanded with some further elements to spice up the loop more If I were to say one thing, I wish the upgrades and the shop were spread a little more evenly, there's stretches where I run into the the same thing a lot.
It's a pretty fun game with potential!