Dark Stew

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Hi everyone! Sorry to be late, but I had to move apartments this week. I am declaring today as my start date!

My game is about fishing creatures from black pools built into marble. The pools are opened by a hand when it touches your heart, filling it with variously sized aquatic things. Your goal is to rapidly fish out a heavy haul of them within the time limit.

The game is loosely based on fishing in Harvest Moon. I'm hoping to create a similar experience of walking around, fishing from different places, and reeling with one button.

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I'd like to make an anatomically feasible avatar, but I may make a tiny one instead or just a pillar. Here are some sketches of the character and the pools.

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Today I mostly struggled with technical stuff. I was drawing too many water layers without doing anything to lighten the CPU's load. I tried a few new approaches and decided for the sake of saving time to stop hacking around in Pygame and pre-render the pools with Imagemagick.

Here's what the water probably will look like in the game:



I'm behind schedule but making progress

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Some somethings from the lagoon

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In a few hours, seven days are up, and I didn't animate the main character yet! I'm going to keep going and post a demo when there is fun interaction in the game.



The way somebody looked at me in the park tonight made me want to change the game's name to Dark Stew.

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Hey awesome! I'm devoting a few more days to it and hopefully it'll be playable by then.

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Some more progress!!

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I'd like to submit this before the end of the jam even though you only walk around and sit by the pools in the game. I changed the name again for some reason, this time to Mane Dravele. Part of the reason is the name Black/Dark Stew doesn't add much to the stuff already in the game.

[EDIT: new link below!]

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Here is a new version with fishing. The longer you leave your line in, the better the chances are of getting a creature when you take in the line. There are 15 creatures to catch. This is the final version for a while, not counting minor bugs or adjustments.

Keys
F11 - Fullscreen
Arrows or D-pad - Move
X or A - Sit/Stand
Z or B - Run





I still have to make a Windows binary and give credit for the Creative Commons audio samples [EDIT: the audio credits are in the newest README]