FoonLudum Dare ExplorerLD54 → Gone Fishin'

Gone Fishin'

By cdunham, Sh4d0wDw3113r and TofuDragon

View on ldjam.com

CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall9593.0838
Fun8373.0938
Innovation10592.5436
Theme10502.7537
Graphics9192.7738
Audio4793.3237
Humor6122.7835
Mood6483.4438

Comments

stvup 2023-10-03 03:36

Thats a really nice and calm music, love the chill atmoshphere. Great work!

thunnus 2023-10-03 04:00

I, too, like the chill experience. My favorite is the look and smooth control of the boat.

cdunham 2023-10-03 07:25

@stvup Thanks, glad you liked it!

cdunham 2023-10-03 07:25

@thunnus Glad you enjoyed it!

kitira 2023-10-03 08:23

Chill game! After a somewhat stressful LD final spurt, this was just the right game for me to play. :smiley: The fishes are really nicely drawn and the texts are funny! I also liked that the sound adjusted according to the difficulty of the fishing.

I also fished out all the trash, of course, and will dispose of it properly for a cleaner environment :smile: GoneFisching.png

Small improvement possibilities: The Sea Bass was only displayed to me once, the next times I fished it, the display was always empty and so I couldn't add anything to my inventory. Also, there is no end screen when the inventory is full? That would have been nice. But anyway, it was fun and chill to play it. :slight_smile:

genroa 2023-10-03 08:32

Not sure it really fits the theme, since there's no incentive to have specific things in our inventory or actual gameplay based on having to handle a limited space. But a very charming game nonetheless! The fishing gameplay loop is...weirdly addictive. It's nothing deep, but it just works well enough to keep you interested at least a few minutes, wondering what the next catch will be. Some of these are quite hard to catch...! The music is nothing to write much about, but it fits the vibe the game is going for. This was cool to play.

Possible bug: the "sea bass" fish never appeared as a fish to drag into my inventory when I caught one. This happened every time I caught one.

cdunham 2023-10-03 23:21

@kitira Wow, you caught a lot! Hope you liked it! I would do an end game screen but I mostly just wanted players to enjoy at their own pace and finish when they wanted. I fixed the sea bass actually, thanks for noticing the bug.

cdunham 2023-10-03 23:23

@genroa If I had more time I would've made the inventory really small and let the player sell their catches and buy upgrades, but I wanted to make sure everything else worked in the game before then and it was too late by the end. I fixed the sea bass bug though, thanks for catching it!

addaellis 2023-10-04 04:43

Agreed with Thunnus, the boat was really smooth to control and a relaxing experience. Also, loved the fish-catching jokes XD.

Not sure if it's intentional, but I noticed that you can only get each block of green once per pass (although it's not punished if you do more so I assumed this was just to prevent spamming space. Also! If you put something back into the water, it'll stay there and be available for pickup later on. (so we should clean out the water! ^_^)

greenpig 2023-10-04 04:59

I would add some point system or something for the game to have an objective but otherwise very chill game, fishing spots are VERY hard to see, but liked the game altogether.

porgiepie 2023-10-04 20:38

Music was really nice, a very chill game. Although a point system would be pretty cool :)

rusya-ink 2023-10-04 20:44

Yey, after screenshot of kitira, my goal was to catch omega crab and octopus. And I did it :)

Nice chill game, with some market and fishing gear progression it might just start shining. Nice job

ahbee-studio-nex-us 2023-10-04 20:50

A relaxing game with soothing music. The theme alignment is a bit unclear. I appreciate the gradual difficulty increase with the fish. It would be nice to have a way to deposit trash somewhere.

raphiell 2023-10-05 02:26

"A rusty pipe covered in some kind of liquid' my guess would be water. Well done, relaxing little fish-em'up.

nick-baggett 2023-10-05 02:49

Nice game! Very chill. I think sometimes the meter would register a miss when it was a hit but overall it was nice. Played it for longer than I thought I would.

logan-core 2023-10-05 02:50

Nice chill experience!

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rumiaobsessed 2023-10-05 04:26

Pretty chill game.

bergeronimo 2023-10-05 05:13

Nice chill game. Noticed I could mash space multiple times the green bar and instantly catch a fish sometimes, so I guess you can either play it chill or try to be fast.

cdunham 2023-10-05 10:35

@addaellis lol glad you liked my bad jokes. You can hit each spot more than once on each pass, yeah, but if 2 green parts overlap sometimes it messes things up a little

cdunham 2023-10-05 10:36

@greenpig I'm planning on doing a post Ludum Dare version with more things to catch, a score system, win condition, and different fishing icons depending on how rare the catch

cdunham 2023-10-05 10:37

@porgiepie I'll add a score system and some more stuff in a post Ludum Dare version :smile:

cdunham 2023-10-05 10:42

@rusya-ink Glad you caught them! I was planning on having the player sell their catches and buy stuff but it didn't make it into the jam version and would've made it less relaxing and calm, I feel.

cdunham 2023-10-06 09:31

@ahbee-studio-nex-us You can drag items you don't want out of the inventory and it'll trash them for you

cdunham 2023-10-06 09:32

@raphiell lol its a reference to another game actually, and is not just water

cdunham 2023-10-06 09:33

@nick-baggett Glad you liked it! There's a bug where if 2 green meters overlap it won't register as hitting. Wish I could fix it easily

cdunham 2023-10-06 09:33

@logan-core @rumiaobsessed @bergeronimo Thanks for playing! Hope you liked it!

kankje 2023-10-06 19:10

Relaxing and you're always curious what you will find! Is there a way to win the game? 😄

cdunham 2023-10-06 20:31

@kankje Not in the Ludum Dare version, no :sweat_smile: Hope you liked it though!

lincolnsalles 2023-10-09 04:34

I fished up until a certain point, then I got sick. But it was a different idea. I think the inventory was too big for the tight space theme

soup-and-sandwich-games 2023-10-10 08:29

Lovely little way to spend a morning! Had a lot of fun :)

freeworld 2023-10-12 05:48

Really cute and relaxing fishing game!

cdunham 2023-10-12 08:41

@lincolnsalles @soup-and-sandwich-games @freeworld Thanks for playing :smile:

mallykm 2023-10-12 16:54

really cool little game, definitely has potential for a full-scale game!

cdunham 2023-10-13 05:03

@mallykm Glad you liked it, that means a lot :smile:

bloodbane 2023-10-15 13:58

Nice fishing game! limited space is obvious constraint here. I've spent some time fishing until I couldn't fit anything in either trash space or in my inventory. There doesn't seem to be way to end the game here. But nonetheless, I know how to play this game and how to avoid trash :wink:

cdunham 2023-10-15 20:30

@bloodbane Glad you liked it!

japayne 2023-10-15 22:55

I enoyed the game and it's atmosphere. It would be cool if you could do something with catch too. Good job!

cdunham 2023-10-16 06:12

@japayne There was a plan for selling the catches but I didn't have enough time :sweat_smile: glad you liked it though!

flying-dog-fish 2023-10-16 15:52

Nice chill game.

Whatever you leave in the water or put back in it doesn't disappear. If it gets filled you only get a message about catching a fish but no actual fish :smirk:

cdunham 2023-10-17 08:33

@flying-dog-fish Thanks for playing! I fixed some of that stuff and added more content in an update

draekdude 2023-10-17 12:12

Fun game! I liked the fishing mechanic. Only thing I felt that was missing was some sort of ending once you filled your boat. Screenshot 2023-10-17 at 7.10.39 AM.png

Well done!

scarytreegames 2023-10-17 12:12

It seems to me that if you make the graphics a little more pleasant, you will get a great relaxing fishing simulator :)

borjan1peovski 2023-10-18 20:29

Neat game! A counter keeping track of how many of the fish you've caught like a progress or achievement bar would be something I would definitely add. fish.png

cdunham 2023-10-18 22:56

@draekdude There's something like that if you catch one of each kind of fish. Thanks!

cdunham 2023-10-18 22:57

@scarytreegames Not sure what you mean by more pleasant...

cdunham 2023-10-18 22:57

@borjan1peovski That's a cool idea. Thanks for playing!

egormnc 2023-10-20 14:50

I really enjoyed the game; it's quite simple but has its unique twist. The gameplay is quite original, in my opinion. Keep it up. I won't mention all the shortcomings and bugs in the game as they have been described above