Flesh & Fish is a game about a feeling, about how our mind can bear the fact that we are mechanically killing living beings all the day... but is it really enduring it ?
So take your knife: people need your sacrifice, they need you to become a monster.
[COMMANDS] Press 'X' to attack. Press 'SPACE' to jump. Press 'S' to switch audio volume. Press 'ESC' to quit the application.
[WIN POINT] The goal is to cook animals to win points. Each time an animals go to the cauldron you win one point. When the cauldron is full you win 10 points.
[INSANITY] If you hit a living animal, you get one point of insanity. If you cook a living animal, you get one point of insanity.
If you got to much of insanity, you start to have some hallucination and finally died.
[PRODUCTIVITY] If you hit nothing during a period you will lose one life for bad productivity.
[BERSERK] If an animals go to a full cauldron, it will pass in berserk mode and attack you. You can hit it, and kill it. And it can hurt you.
I think it didn't work for me? - I kept jumping around until I got fired, jumping didn't work on the gamepad and attacking worked with neither gamepad nor keyboard. Might be an issue with my Windows VM.
Love the slightly schizophrenic art style. Definitely felt like a monster when I dunked a cute cat into my cooking pot. Died alone in an asylum, which gets a thumbs up from me.
Areas for development:
Slightly wonky hitbox on the player character meant it was tough to get on the platforms sometimes and the jump feels a bit soupy.
@jlnr : I've got no idea of how works a Unity3d game through a windows VM, sorry :( Yes if you cannot launch attack (press 'X' on a keyboard, you will die quickly unfortunately.
@CB : Yes I've got a lot's of improve to make on the controls/character. I really miss one day to polish the game (only start on Sunday).
Great use of the theme. At first it was kinda hard to figure out what I was doing wrong. Took me a while to figure out I had to hit the one not moving. I'm not exactly sure what to do with those with "masks".
Thanks. Yes you have to hit dead animals and try to avoid alive animals. Unfortunately if you hit to much alive animals, you start to become insane and stop seeing them as animals but like cats and baby. And that increase the chance to kill animals alive.
Took me three tries to understand the difference between dead/living animals... Maybe you should make it more noticeable or explain it a bit better? Or maybe I'm just a bit slow ^^ Anyway apart from this it's a pretty fun game, quite challenging as you try to hit only dead animals but see your productivity getting low... The balance works well, congrats! The berserk animals are a nice touch as well :)
Given the description of the game, I take it the intent was exposing the cruelty behind animal slaughter? If so, I found it hard to see the metaphor in the game. Not a whole of details seems to click together. Instead, it just feels like a repetitive slicing game where you need to be careful of what you slice. No particular message there.
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What I liked:
Love the slightly schizophrenic art style. Definitely felt like a monster when I dunked a cute cat into my cooking pot. Died alone in an asylum, which gets a thumbs up from me.
Areas for development:
Slightly wonky hitbox on the player character meant it was tough to get on the platforms sometimes and the jump feels a bit soupy.
But on the whole, congratulations! Well done!
@jlnr : I've got no idea of how works a Unity3d game through a windows VM, sorry :( Yes if you cannot launch attack (press 'X' on a keyboard, you will die quickly unfortunately.
@CB : Yes I've got a lot's of improve to make on the controls/character. I really miss one day to polish the game (only start on Sunday).
Good job on the game !
Anyway apart from this it's a pretty fun game, quite challenging as you try to hit only dead animals but see your productivity getting low... The balance works well, congrats! The berserk animals are a nice touch as well :)