Wrangler's Knot - Deep Dive Sea Fishing

by welby
Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.22
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.21
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.76
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.79
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.02
Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.96
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.15
Wrangle em up and haul em in. Get the big boy at the bottom.

Wrangler's Knot - Deep Dive Sea Fishing
by welby

made for Ludum Dare 48 Game Jam

WASD - Movement

E - Angler Loop Knot the Chain, (only when in close enough range to highlight the chain-link)

[NO SOUND] (in case you thought your audio was messed up haha)

Bringing fish close enough to the boat catches them.

Catching fish increases your Max Chain Length.

Try to create a long enough chain to catch the big boy at the bottom of the sea.
Genres: action
Tools: Unity

Comments22

LDJam user 127637
LDJam user 12763726 Apr 2021, 04:48
Nice graphics & atmosphere, I was happy to discover that we could even fly haha :)
TomekS26 Apr 2021, 04:51
Very nice and innovative mechanic, like the fact it gets darker as you go deeper.
welby
welbyauthor26 Apr 2021, 05:06
@mahjoub i originally kept that from happening with a quick-fix, but i'm not surprised the game still has that bug at this point, haha! I'm gonna have to add sky and space fish to make the most of the feature.
3LSTMsInATrenchcoat26 Apr 2021, 05:10
I love the colour choices and the ambiance. Good transition from cute to kinda spooky.
tengusheath
tengusheath26 Apr 2021, 05:38
Really fun mechanic. Best part was discovering I could fly in the sky. The graphics are really cute.
Sbug
Sbug26 Apr 2021, 06:16
Lovely graphics and a really interesting mechanic. The game got a bit hard to control when the chain is supper long since the barge just keeps spitting it out, but great job overall!
JedeMac
JedeMac26 Apr 2021, 08:32
This is so great, I thought I was entering a cave, turns out I was capturing a giant creature^^
Love the mechanic, so much potential with that chain. It's very satisfying when you can start to make huuuge loops.
CodeGlitch026 Apr 2021, 15:45
Excellent game! This is one really sucked me and definitely has that completionist vibe. The strategy is fairly simple to make sure you get every last fish once you get a longer net, but I really enjoyed playing it.
Chensu26 Apr 2021, 23:08
Love the graphic and the control of this game :) Love the lighting on the cloud, really good stuff. Keep up the good work
BoClow
BoClow27 Apr 2021, 06:53
Unique concept! It was fun to try to haul as much fish as possible and it was satisfying to see them get pulled up to the boat. Managed to catch the "big boy" after 3 tries as the net pulled it a bit higher every time before breaking.
chris-mondok27 Apr 2021, 13:56
Very cool, I really like the idea! I was a bit confused about how to use the knot, usually it would delete the rope but the fish were still left just hanging out by the boat.
mrnyarlathotep
mrnyarlathotep27 Apr 2021, 13:58
Nice compo entry, and good approach on the theme.

I would have liked a little more messaging on what was going on, like a bar that fills up as you catch fish to show something is happening, or an indicator on what my max rope length was so I knew it had gone up?
welby
welbyauthor27 Apr 2021, 14:50
@chris-mondok Teaching players to "tighten the loop enough" before reeling in was a challenge. I was tight on time when setting the correct distance to collect the fish, so those distances are very rough. Thank you for playing.
welby
welbyauthor27 Apr 2021, 14:53
@mrnyarlathotep I agree. I had ppl tell me that they didn't even know they could reel-in, which is the only way to reset the rope to the max rope length. It would have been a relatively easy fix too. I guess I was in a hurry at the end. It's rly a shame for me.
Thanks for the feedback.
Brigadeirim27 Apr 2021, 15:50
Great game! I love the mechanic and cute graphics!
RNGames
RNGames27 Apr 2021, 17:40
✔️ Very nice graphics and colours. I liked the lighting and depth effects in the water.

✔️ The controls and gameplay were very intuitive.

➖ The movement speed felt a bit slow.
Eugenik
Eugenik27 Apr 2021, 17:49
Bit hard for me , but i like your artworks.
xpoho
xpoho27 Apr 2021, 18:41
Я очень рад, что могу поймать таких больших чудищ, и они меня не съедят.
Игра затягивает - как буквально, так и в переносном смысле. Спасибо! ^_^
airwaffle
airwaffle28 Apr 2021, 17:50
Yes! Sky fish, definitely sky fish! I scared all the fishes away, and once I did it was quite hard to get any back within my chain-boundaries. The name really helps with initially explaining the game, which is nice!
LALAKI7
LALAKI729 Apr 2021, 19:17
Interesting idea but the physics felt pretty wonky. At one point I suddenly got launched up into the air for some reason, that looked kinda fun. Also like how it gets darker the deeper you go.
Cinsynate30 Apr 2021, 21:11
It's a deceptively fun game for what it is! I think it has a lot of potential. The fish sprites were charming, but I do think it could benefit from some more work after the jam! I was able to swim into the air- and chase some fish ahead of me into it, which was interesting but probably not intended. I also found it was often more functional to lasso a bunch of fish and drag them up to the boat by swimming above it rather than using the built in wranglers knot function, but that would obviously change if you were restricted to the ocean.
Hobzone9 May 2021, 22:41
the graphics are nice, it was fun when I discovered that I could fly ^^.

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