Angry Fish is a game where you (a fish) has to cross the ocean. You are attacked by bigger fish, but you can eat smaller fish. The more fish you grow, the bigger you are and the more fish you can eat.
You can choose to stay small and sneak through the bigger fish alive or to eat lots of fish and then eat the bigger fish to make your way through the ocean. It's up to you, you can cross the ocean big or small. You might have to adapt to the environment, after all this is Evolution.
It was made with Lua and LOVE. I made Mac OS and Windows builds.
For GNU/Linux users, source is recommended. Just download the .LOVE and run it with "love angryfish.love" on the terminal. For this, you need LOVE installed. Try "sudo apt-get install love" if you are running Ubuntu or any Debian-based distribution.
------------------------- IMPORTANT NOTES ------------------------- Everytime you die/lose you have to restart the game (close/open). Unfortunately, I didn't have time to write my game structure in a way that made it possible to play again in the same process.
I wasn't able to play the game because I immediately fall off the screen quickly when I start :( Looking at your source, I think it might be because you aren't taking into account the dt passed into love.update - this means people with higher frame rates have to play the game faster, which in my case seems to not be humanly possible :p
Ragzouken, I'm sorry, I made the game while I was streaming, so I put the velocities based on my frames per second while streaming (20 FPS). Either way, what you're saying is right, I didn't use dt and I'm not cappint frame rate.
Pretty fun with a good bit of challenge once the fish get numerous. I did find one bug: swam to the bottom and died. when I tried to restart, I was automatically dead.
Decent game, I expected to see hundreds of variations of this game when the theme was announced, but this was the first. As many have said, getting bigger doesn't seem to be advantageous, since theres no way to get big enough for it to matter.
You didn't structured your code in a way the game can be reset? Now that is the worst practice in programming. It means you hardcoded everything. It must be the first thing when you done with the game design to design the structure of the program code! If you don't do this than later you can't change anything at will because everything is in one flow and they depends on each other. Hard to read and it's almost impossible to find bugs in it...
@RawBits, I couldn't agree more! I always have a Game class, a State class and a PlayState class. Then I have the Object class, and the Player, the Enemy and other things inherit that class.
For this Ludum Dare I used Lua, with the which I don't have much experience, so I didn't know how to structure my game like I usually did. I already found out, but only after Ludum Dare.
@rhaasken: Is it too fast or too slow? Please describe. However, I'm pretty sure it's too fast since I also didn't use delta time for movement calculations.
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http://uploading.com/files/get/956df963/angryfish.love
http://uploading.com/files/get/138b96ca/angryfish_windows.zip
http://uploading.com/files/get/1m2991be/angryfish.bin (Linux Binary)
Found a bug, when I lose and try to play again, it says game over straight away.
Now those are some angry fish! Fun little game, but staying small seems much easier than trying to evolve. Some audio would have been nice too.
It was fun though, nice little game!
http://i429.photobucket.com/albums/qq18/bmaczero/Keep/angryfish.png
Well, I guess it does crash the game eventually :P. Surprised how much fun this was for its simplicity. Great 48-hour game!
For this Ludum Dare I used Lua, with the which I don't have much experience, so I didn't know how to structure my game like I usually did. I already found out, but only after Ludum Dare.
@rhaasken: Is it too fast or too slow? Please describe. However, I'm pretty sure it's too fast since I also didn't use delta time for movement calculations.