Always A Bigger Fish

by rantt
Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.28
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.68
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.50
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.97
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.81
Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.09
Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.76
Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.97
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★51%
It's a fish eat fish world.
Eat the green fish to grow bigger, orange fish won't hurt you (and you can't eat them...yet) and red fish will kill you.

Controls:
W,A,S - move forward, turn left, turn right
arrow up, left, right - move forward, turn left, turn right

or use the pointer, click to move to that spot

Tools Used:
coding: vim/tmux and Phaser.js for my framework
graphics: Pixly, Pixen and Pixelmator
sfx: sfxr/bfxr
music: PixiTracker

screenshot

Comments24

JamesMowery14 Dec 2015, 04:18
Nice work on your game! I like how you incorporated the "Growing" theme into this. I also liked the sound and such (although it seems to cut off and stop playing once you beat a level or two). Other than that, really good stuff. :)
danbolt
danbolt14 Dec 2015, 04:45
I feel like the "fish eat fish now get bigger" games I played on Flash portals as a kid were slow and boring. This is much faster, quicker, and more interesting!

You get a GitHub star too. ;P
Elenesski
Elenesski14 Dec 2015, 05:17
Good job on the game. Felt like Osmos at times. Game had minor issues with screen edges. But still fun.
danieldsj14 Dec 2015, 05:23
Pretty good Osmos clone! Well done!
ThaRemo14 Dec 2015, 10:32
Nice game! I liked the simplicity, but it was a little short.
aamatniekss14 Dec 2015, 14:25
Super simple classic game, but it's fun! The fish colouring was a nice touch and helped understand which ones you can eat and which ones you can't eat. :)
laFunk14 Dec 2015, 14:25
That Jaws theme remix! The way the fish swim is pretty humorous :) I didn't like how they seem to gather on the screen borders but it's a fun game. Cheers!
Emkiusz
Emkiusz14 Dec 2015, 15:06
Nice little game :D Too bad the music is so short :P
kailijan14 Dec 2015, 15:46
Great game! Really like it.
hexagore
hexagore14 Dec 2015, 17:58
This is really effectively done. Took me a while to realise I could aim with the mouse though.. but once I did I had a lot of fun with this. Thanks.
timtipgames
timtipgames14 Dec 2015, 18:38
Not too exciting but well executed!
very fluid gameplay ;p
graceavery14 Dec 2015, 18:39
Nice fishy clone, the movement mostly works well and the mechanics seem well figured-out. Found the music sort of jarring, but fairly funky. Nice work!
pparke14 Dec 2015, 19:23
Good gameplay, levels increased in difficulty nicely and the control of the fish was solid and easy to pick up.
hcosta
hcosta15 Dec 2015, 03:21
This is a nice balanced game covering the two themes, good job!
Erlend Aakre15 Dec 2015, 05:50
Good game, a bit short and some more variety would have been great
Xeke_Death15 Dec 2015, 06:45
Nice and smooth, I liked how the fish became edible as I got bigger, made evident by the colour change.
I died in the corners a few times thanks to the wrapping... Thought "I'm fine, I'm on the opposite side from the red fish", then I died...
psychonull15 Dec 2015, 14:09
Great game. Really fun to play. Nice grahipcs also. Good job!
Jan Peter (jpdev)15 Dec 2015, 21:24
Nice little growing game.
What I liked most is exactly what my own game is missing - you made levels. It starts easy and not with all mechanics at once.
In hindsight that's what I should have done with my sheep.
Drtizzle
Drtizzle16 Dec 2015, 00:11
Nice job! I really like the responsiveness of the fish, and the music was really nice too (i love midi)! If you make the "world" a bit more alive (animation, physics?) it would be awesome!
LoneStranger
LoneStranger16 Dec 2015, 02:24
Fun game. Well done. Loved the music and the sprites. Pointer controls made it a little difficult with the sides. Some of those bigger fish swam at me faster than I could get my bearings on a new level.
PeachTreeOath
PeachTreeOath17 Dec 2015, 03:31
Haven't personally played a puzzle-feeding game, usually they're more sandboxxy so I like the change of pace.
Jakob37
Jakob3719 Dec 2015, 20:09
Nice and snappy game. Good awesome-per-second in this, I think the difficulty ramped well, and I liked the short levels. I thought it was mouse only (with mouse-pad) which was slightly awkward, but then I realized that I of course could play it with the keyboard. Could have been interesting with some harder levels at the end.

All in all. Well done, I enjoyed it :)
kepons
kepons19 Dec 2015, 20:26
Not exactly anything new, but it was quite fun and I liked the music.
ruerob20 Dec 2015, 16:58
Your game is really fun to play! Sadly a bit short! Well done!

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