There's Always a Bigger... is a combination of some known mechanics into something surprisingly fun and addictive. Controls are [Space] and [Enter] (so two buttons ;) ). Eat the smaller green fishes, and avoid the larger red fishes, at least until you've outgrown them!
Please post high-scores!
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Between my grandmother's 90st birthday and organizing a babyshower for men I'm glad to say I've managed to still squeeze something out this time. And it came out surprisingly fun.
My focus was on fun and theme: both growing and two button control inspired me to combine some known mechanics into something new.
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I agree with Bug Cow, I think it combines the mechanics of both of those quite well! it was very fun, it would have been even better with some sound effects but I understand time was tight.
Absolutely, the screenshot does not do justice to the game! :) Not a new concept, but fun and well executed. Sounds & music could add a lot in this case.
Fun take on a classic. There's something very pleasing about just the simple oval shapes. I like how it pulls back to show a bigger and bigger "pond" every time you're starting to become the big "fish".
Really cool concept. My high score was around 30k.. I was gonna try to beat daveh and make it to 100k, but a few "features" got a bit antagonistic and one just made it not fun anymore.
The first: not being allowed to get offscreen for a moment. I could understand not getting too far away, and maybe it's just my take on it, but maybe allowing the player to hop a little offscreen would be okay because some of the fish would be really near the edge. This one was a bit annoying, but not that really..
The most annoying thing was the bigger fish spawning on top of me... After it happened three times I gave up. They should definitely not be allowed to spawn near you inside a certain range so that there's no instant-death the moment you eat a smaller fish. It's really annoying to just have executed a quick-grab of a meal and then a bigger fish spawns on you and you lose. (You can even see the bigger fish still growing in the frozen screenshot.)
Other than that, it was a nice game. I would keep playing but that spawn "feature" got a little antagonistic. :P
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The graphics are quite simplistic but the background circles make the whole thing work. And the controls are tight too.
Overall it's a really nice, minimal take on both themes, congrats :)
I love that you took the angry birds theme and turned it into an arena style game! Addictive and surprisingly fun :)
Hi-Score: 94913 (If you don't believe me, watch the video ^^)
The first: not being allowed to get offscreen for a moment. I could understand not getting too far away, and maybe it's just my take on it, but maybe allowing the player to hop a little offscreen would be okay because some of the fish would be really near the edge. This one was a bit annoying, but not that really..
The most annoying thing was the bigger fish spawning on top of me... After it happened three times I gave up. They should definitely not be allowed to spawn near you inside a certain range so that there's no instant-death the moment you eat a smaller fish. It's really annoying to just have executed a quick-grab of a meal and then a bigger fish spawns on you and you lose. (You can even see the bigger fish still growing in the frozen screenshot.)
Other than that, it was a nice game. I would keep playing but that spawn "feature" got a little antagonistic. :P