Ludum Dare #41compo

The Fat Man and the Sea

by samusoidal

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.59

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.71

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.48

Theme★★★★★★★★★★4.00

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.79

Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.46

Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.59

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.56

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Combining __Fishing Simulator__ with __Defense__
__You are Elias Muttonhedge, the last of the Conservationists, and the Industrialists are trying to kill you! Save all the rare fish you can while dodging the Industrialist missiles!
Instructions to play are in-game.__

Now on itch.io!

Features

Relaxing Ukelele Music
Global Highscores (self-hosted) -
_I spent three weeks teaching myself Javascript to make this server, and I'm quite proud of it!_
Press Esc to Exit!
Perhaps some undocumented 'features'? :wink:

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Change Log:
04-22-2018 - Fixed a bug where entering a username would freeze the game. Fixed the tutorial showing multiple times per session. Fixed a bug where the highscores list would not sort correctly. Removed some developer shortcuts ;)
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Tags: #fishing, #high score, #relaxing

Genres: action, simulation

Comments45

GexAlmighty23 Apr 2018, 01:29

Took me 2 tries to figure you what I was meant to be doing cuz I skim read the instructions, but after reading them properly I can say I really like the idea of fishing for the right ammo, the setting and art is pretty funny too. Not too difficult but gives you enough to manage so that you can't play on autopilot.

Samusoidalauthor23 Apr 2018, 03:20

Thanks, @GexAlmighty! Come back and rate when the judging starts!

pandademic4223 Apr 2018, 03:39

Thinking of doing a Mac or Web build?

Pahlsoftware23 Apr 2018, 03:40

I enjoy this game very much, thanks.

Samusoidalauthor23 Apr 2018, 04:21

@pandademic42 Unfortunately I don't have a Mac developer's license or the GMS2 HTML5 module. If you know anyone who could compile it from the source file for me that would be great!
Thanks, @pahlsoftware! Remember to come back and rate!

JCMonkey23 Apr 2018, 04:57

cute little game, the rocket come pretty fast

Samusoidalauthor24 Apr 2018, 00:08

Thanks @jcmonkey!

onnofal24 Apr 2018, 13:41

Hi, I was interested and tried the Linux version, but unable to run game, with this error:
```
Not a PNGReadPNG :: a PNG error occuredIcon: w=-1 h=-1
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
```
and as I see image resources in assets folder looks truly like jpegs with png extension

GiGiChef24 Apr 2018, 13:44

Nice idea. Did the score is online on local ?
Missing maybe something to manipulat the color, like a rainbow, but still i like it :)
Nice sounddesign and graphic btw

Samusoidalauthor24 Apr 2018, 14:00

@onnofal Uh-oh! I'll fix it ASAP.
@GiGiChef The scores are global. See if you can keep the top spot!

GiGiChef24 Apr 2018, 14:03

@Samusoidal haha great work for that o/

Samusoidalauthor25 Apr 2018, 02:06

@onnofal The Linux version is now fixed and tested! Come back and play if you're interested :wink:

onnofal25 Apr 2018, 09:24

@Samusoidal yep indeed works and it is great :) and i appreciate the powerup system, making me more chances to survive - to catch correct fish when some rocket approaching is too often nearly impossible for me. but overall very nice

Samusoidalauthor25 Apr 2018, 13:16

Thanks @onnofal! I appreciate you coming back to play.

Beebo Studios25 Apr 2018, 23:40

Great game! The art direction really is something! I love the playfulness of it all. The shooting sound is just hilarious! Graphics are great and i dig the background you give in the beginning. I actually would have loved some ukulele for our game, too, but sadly, we didn't have the time. So it warms my heart to hear this beautiful instrument in another fishing game :) As a game, I think your idea does work really well, too! Great and engaging genre combination! On my first playthrough, the game crashed after entering my name. On the second it didn't. So maybe that was just a random bug. Nevertheless, I wanted to report it.

Great entry, have one of our fishes for your effort

Samusoidalauthor25 Apr 2018, 23:43

@Beebo-Studios :laughing: Thanks!

And a fish for you as well :blowfish:

silkworm_sweatshop26 Apr 2018, 00:11

Simple and fun! Art and sound work well together.

Wheffle26 Apr 2018, 01:35

Haha nice genre mash-up. It kind of reminds me of one of those multi-tasking puzzle games meant to stress people out. As always I enjoy your artwork as well. The music was nice and simple too, but it began grating on you after a bit because of the short loop. I also love LD games with a global high score table, I think they are so fun. Apparently I am number 1 right now (unless my client was wrong), although I doubt that will hang around.

Samusoidalauthor26 Apr 2018, 02:07

@silkworm_sweatshop Thanks for playing!
@wheffle Thanks so much! I'll be honest with you: you beat my own high score :laughing:

Lakrits26 Apr 2018, 14:25

Excellent game, had fun playing it! Got ~2450 points on my second try but it crashed when submitting the score. =( Tried starting again and died immediately just to check the high score list and it looks like my oldest high score (from my first try) got overwritten by the later lower dummy score. Here's the crash error message:
> FATAL ERROR in action number 1 of Async Event: HTTP for object obj_endgame:
> json_decode argument 1 incorrect type (undefined) expecting a Number (YYGR) at gml_Object_obj_endgame_Other_62
> stack frame is gml_Object_obj_endgame_Other_62 (line -1)

Samusoidalauthor26 Apr 2018, 15:25

@Lakrits Thanks for playing! I am aware of that bug and I'm working on fixing it... I think it's on the server side.

hank199626 Apr 2018, 16:39

Nice game! I really liked the atmoshpere and concept, simple yet challenging! I don't know why but I have found the sound effect hilarious! Great job! If I may ask you a favour could you please play and feedback my game?
Here's the link: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/casual-title

Samusoidalauthor26 Apr 2018, 16:52

@hank1996 Thanks for playing! I'm working through my list of games to play but I'll give yours some priority :wink:

joekickass27 Apr 2018, 08:55

cool game! there's never the right colour fish when I need it though lol. I like that you've made a global leaderboard, that was a nice touch!

It'd be great if you checked out our game too! https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/rattys-stew-an-immersive-cooking-simulation

Samusoidalauthor27 Apr 2018, 12:52

Thanks @joekickass!

Tay27 Apr 2018, 17:38

Funny little game, the art stands out from what I'm used to, I like it. Also enjoyed the fact that you added some backstory to it :)

Samusoidalauthor27 Apr 2018, 17:47

Thanks @tay! I love to see people enjoying my artwork.

fashionbatman28 Apr 2018, 04:19

Good take on the theme. I love the contrast between the music and the missiles being shot at you. Great job!

Scout28 Apr 2018, 04:23

my first thaught when i played the game was that this whole thing was made in paint, made me laugh

Samusoidalauthor28 Apr 2018, 04:30

@fashionbatman Thanks for playing!
@scout Thanks for the feedback! The art was actually drawn in pencil and scaled down on-screen, so it looks kind of wierd. I bet it look great on a 4K screen, though.

Linus28 Apr 2018, 16:42

That was a pretty unique mix of genres! I like the simple art which creates a peculiar setting for a peculiar type of game.

The controls were easy to understand once you read the instructions (which had some minor spelling and grammar mistakes by the way). The controls could have been visible at the same time as playing to make it even easier but it was not a problem for me.

The sound effects created with your voice was humorous and well made. The gameplay was interesting but somewhat hard because you had a very small area to work with, sometimes it was hard to catch the fish that you wanted to catch.

Overall a very cool game, fun to play. Good job! :smiley:

Checkout my game if you like: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/$74082

Samusoidalauthor28 Apr 2018, 17:12

@Linus Thanks for playing! I guess proof-reading at 10 PM isn't the best idea :flushed: :laughing:

David Wallett28 Apr 2018, 17:46

I would have recommended a feature where you increase the speed of the missiles as time goes on to make the game a little more difficult. However I thought it was a unique concept that flowed well when put together. I also appreciated the art.

Nice job with this!

Samusoidalauthor28 Apr 2018, 17:49

@David-Wallett Thanks for playing! The missiles do go faster as time goes on, but the difficulty curve is very shallow. If you get as far as @wheffle did the missiles are practically touching each other!

Rick9528 Apr 2018, 17:57

Funnny game to play! It start to be hard when you let missiles come. Anyways I'm the third in ranking :smiley: Love the paint-style art btw hahaha

Samusoidalauthor28 Apr 2018, 18:00

@Rick95 Thanks for playing :laughing:

marioman6828 Apr 2018, 23:53

Fluid game play the graphics go together and different then most other games so a nice change.

Samusoidalauthor29 Apr 2018, 00:12

Thanks @marioman68!

Anubhav Kashyap29 Apr 2018, 06:41

Great game! I really liked the simplicity of the graphics :thumbsup: and it was fun to play. The gameplay is also very smooth.

kr4ft3r29 Apr 2018, 13:02

Very nice, especially love the art style of large 2D characters. At first it seems very hard and I thought I won't take more than a couple minutes of this, but eventually it turns out the difficulty is just right to make it constantly challenging. Enjoyable game really. My name on scorebord is Asdfadfsasdf.. :D

Samusoidalauthor29 Apr 2018, 13:33

@kr4ft3r @Anubhav-Kashyap Thanks for playing! :smile: