Ludum Dare #41compo

Gone Fishin

by fenwick

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.21

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.32

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.90

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.00

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.29

Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.42

Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.78

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.03

A shoot-em-up meets a fishing game!

Throw bait at the fish to make them fall asleep, then drive your boat over to pick them up! But don't hit the live fish, or your boat will take damage!

Catch the required number of fish on the stage to move on to the next one.

Controls

Move: Arrows

Throw bait: Space

Tools

* Godot game engine
* Aseprite for visuals
* AS3FXR for SFX
* Ableton Live for music

Tools: Ableton Live, Aseprite, Godot

Comments10

Badical23 Apr 2018, 04:42

Nice work! Graphics and sounds were really well done. Solid arcade experience :D

Dakota Jones23 Apr 2018, 05:06

Wow I love the pixel art, and it was a very classic arcade experience I agree. Which was why I was bad at it :laughing: Great work!

EddyNeave24 Apr 2018, 15:03

Hey cool game, loved the graphics and had fun playing it. Have one minor issue the boat was a little difficult to control at first because it was so fast i got used to it in the end, also for the first two tries i didn't realise you could move forward and backwards figured it out in the end though. Overall decent game, i enjoyed it.

kr4ft3r24 Apr 2018, 23:17

Nice, an original game yet easy to grasp on how to play. Level difficulty seems well paced, each level makes you try-hard a bit more.

jshaffer9424725 Apr 2018, 04:34

Cool! I can't seem to get past level 2 because the boat is too fast and the shooting is too slow. Will I get a power-up on the shooting? Hmm...if you have power-ups, I may come back to play. Very nice combo and I enjoyed it. I liked the music at first but then it got annoying. Either the music needs less repetition or I need to get better at this. Maybe both. :D

Neon25 Apr 2018, 12:06

The boat is very fast! Some precision-mode would've made the game's controls a lot easier to manage. I got to level 4, but since that required more precision than the previous levels, I didn't manage to beat it. The sound effects were fine, just got a bit repetitive over time. The music was good though! Overall, a pretty decent shmup.

Dark Roast Studios27 Apr 2018, 08:02

nice arcade feel to it, boat moved perhaps a little too fast, often missed fish because of it. Solid audio and nice graphics, good job.

niterich28 Apr 2018, 18:25

Like a lot of other people here, I liked the arcade gameplay, but the boat was way too fast to make accurate shots. I like the the graphics and the music, but I don't think they gel well together. I think a happy country-ish chiptune track would have fit better with the arcadey action and graphics

Bernhard11 May 2018, 07:37

Simple game, I enjoyed it. Made it to the congratulations screen (-:
On my keyboard I couldn't hold the shoot button while also moving left/right and down at the same time...

Doccrazy12 May 2018, 08:26

This felt more like a pure arcade shmap than a combination of genres with some "peace and quiet, out fishing on the lake" elements :wink:. However, well executed, nice gfx and sound, had fun playing it.

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