Phat Fishes
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Phat Fishes is a game about fishes that are phat. It's in their genes (find more about Tetraodontidae in Wikipedia).
tl;dr
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It"s a couch multiplayer arena game up to 4 fishes. Just push the other fishes into dangerous stuff (the crabs, the mines and the deadly jellyfish) while avoiding the dangerous stuff yourself.
Controls
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Arrows to move your fish, action button to toggle bigger / smaller size. Bigger mean you can bounce other fishes a lot, it's also very slow but can be handy to slowdown / play defensive.
Player 1 : a/q, s, d, z/w, action : e
Player 2 : left, right, up, down arrows, action : right alt key
Player 3 : j, k, l, i, action : o
Player 4 : f, g, h, t, action : y
Pause : escape / tab
Default input can be remapped but the helper text in game will NOT be updated accordingly.
Gameplay
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Each player has three hearts, last player alive wins duh.
Scenario
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Four fishes from an underwater suburb fight for approval, only to find that in the end, only friendship prevails. THE END. MICHAEL BAY EXPLOSIONS.
Settings
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You can change the player names in the options, as well as toggle the music on / off. You can pause the game by pressing escape or tab.
About the theme
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Well, fishes can change their shape, but more importantly PHAT FISHES IS AN ANAGRAM FOR SHAPESHIFT!!!
Post mortem
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I was aiming for the compo so I did everything myself and by the compo rules but I was out of time so I'm submitting in the jam instead. Sources are availables on GitHub.
EDIT 1 : added windows build and updated the link to the mac build that was not public *facepalm*
EDIT 2 : added webgl specific build!
EDIT 3 : fixed wrong input on qwerty keyboard
tl;dr
#################
It"s a couch multiplayer arena game up to 4 fishes. Just push the other fishes into dangerous stuff (the crabs, the mines and the deadly jellyfish) while avoiding the dangerous stuff yourself.
Controls
#################
Arrows to move your fish, action button to toggle bigger / smaller size. Bigger mean you can bounce other fishes a lot, it's also very slow but can be handy to slowdown / play defensive.
Player 1 : a/q, s, d, z/w, action : e
Player 2 : left, right, up, down arrows, action : right alt key
Player 3 : j, k, l, i, action : o
Player 4 : f, g, h, t, action : y
Pause : escape / tab
Default input can be remapped but the helper text in game will NOT be updated accordingly.
Gameplay
#################
Each player has three hearts, last player alive wins duh.
Scenario
#################
Four fishes from an underwater suburb fight for approval, only to find that in the end, only friendship prevails. THE END. MICHAEL BAY EXPLOSIONS.
Settings
#################
You can change the player names in the options, as well as toggle the music on / off. You can pause the game by pressing escape or tab.
About the theme
#################
Well, fishes can change their shape, but more importantly PHAT FISHES IS AN ANAGRAM FOR SHAPESHIFT!!!
Post mortem
#################
I was aiming for the compo so I did everything myself and by the compo rules but I was out of time so I'm submitting in the jam instead. Sources are availables on GitHub.
EDIT 1 : added windows build and updated the link to the mac build that was not public *facepalm*
EDIT 2 : added webgl specific build!
EDIT 3 : fixed wrong input on qwerty keyboard