What the fish !!

by po8rewq
Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.27
Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.00
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.23
Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.67
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.30
Audio★★★★★★★★★★1.35
Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.49
Mood★★★★★★★★★★1.89
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★75%
This game was made in one day. The goal is to prevent the boats from catching 5 fish... by throwing potatoes at them without harming the fish.

With the mouse, press the left button and release it to throw a potato. The longer you press, the strongest the shot is. There is a time lapse between each potato shot.

This game was made with Haxe and GIMP for the design.

screenshot

Comments16

zerebruin29 Apr 2013, 07:59
Good gameplay. Works as expected.

I like the simplistig pixel style but a nicer font would have been a great upgrade. Also a bit of a pity the potato-thrower is a pink square.
Badly needs sound...
wrongcoder29 Apr 2013, 08:08
Sorry, I don't get it.
poohshoes29 Apr 2013, 08:09
Hitboxes were a little off and I kept wishing that the potatoes would fire in an arc but i really liked the dynamics created by having to avoid the fish when firing.
Nakato
Nakato29 Apr 2013, 08:12
Good respect of the theme.
Need perhaps some polish ... potatoes launcher is just a pink square, the boat leave the game screen sometime.
Graphics are ok
Corofides
Corofides29 Apr 2013, 13:13
It was an interesting game concept but I don't think the execution worked so well. You really needed to add some gravity in to so the potatoes would fire as expected. Rather than a straight line.
Andrio
Andrio29 Apr 2013, 14:15
I would have loved to have been able to move underneath. Shooting from the bottom-right seemed really awkward. It was impossible NOT to hit fish until the boats got really close.
deige10129 Apr 2013, 21:12
I don't think I could hit the boat. Cool idea though!
peggiosoft
peggiosoft29 Apr 2013, 21:59
why killing the fishes that the boat caught lowers my score?
i'm not ending their lives, i'm just setting them free!
tiffi1 May 2013, 08:53
+1 for fishing
alwaysinbeta1 May 2013, 08:56
Nice idea. Gfx are really nice. Struggled with the controls. Would have been cool to be able to control the fishing rod.
alts5 May 2013, 21:20
The combination of being stuck in the lower left corner, and the too generous hitboxes meant that I was annihilating quite a few fish before they'd had to chance to fully swim on screen. It also feels like the incentives to not kill fish aren't strong enough. I managed to get pretty far without "losing" a fish to a fisher by massively depopulating the ocean and then destroying the boat. So long as I killed less than 15 fish before the fisherman, I'd come out positive. Excellent work for one day, though.
MrBlade
MrBlade6 May 2013, 15:42
Great Game! Love the graphics, feel, and humor. I love how you throw potatoes at boats. Hahaha, keep it up!
Frozen Fractal
Frozen Fractal6 May 2013, 15:46
Would be better if the player weren't placed in a corner. It's really hard to avoid hitting the fish this way. Cute graphics, could do with some sound.
Nick Cash6 May 2013, 15:52
Good job! This is a nice little game. I actually really like the art style.

However, as others have said, it would be nice if the potato launcher was more than a pink square, Hitboxes were definitely a little finicky, and some sound would have been nice too.
bvanschooten17 May 2013, 23:28
Graphics are nice enough, only the game could use some work. In particular the shooting mechanic is awkward. I keep shooting the fish that pop up on the left. Why not move the shooter a little more towards the middle? Also, what's the point of having a shot strength when the highest strength is always the best?

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