Fisch

[jim]

Hey guys, just started working on this on Sunday. You play the fish being fished.
Goal is to win by building your school and avoiding deadly hooks, nets and predators amongst other things.
Here's the progress so far:



The devlog is more or less the commit history in the repository: http://github.com/jsyang/gdw3

[jim]

Progress has indeed been made!

* add sfx
* add recruiting ability to fisches
* make plankton work!
* make the hooks catch the fish!

You can play around with it here: http://jsyang.ca/c/gdw3

[timtipgames]

Fun to play!
Some minor things I noticed:
One big fish wasn't able to follow the swarm, don't know if that was intended.
Hooks can become to small to see

[jim]

Thanks for the feedback!
Mainly been working on making it prettier this weekend.
It now looks like this:



Same link as before to play around with it: http://jsyang.ca/c/gdw3

[sansumbrella]

Nice! I like the indirect control of the fish.

Do I eventually get anything for (eating?) the shellfish that are floating around? e.g. do my fish get bigger or reproduce? Just a little confused by that element, though it's fun to try to pick up.

[jim]

Thanks! Planning to have a few intermission stages like "spawning areas" where you can use biomass you've acquired on various fish upgrades. Also some special enemy encounters are planned.

You will also be able to pick up roe so you can spawn special new fish for the next stage.
Right now it's just eating and being caught in hooks.

Nice! I like the indirect control of the fish.

Do I eventually get anything for (eating?) the shellfish that are floating around? e.g. do my fish get bigger or reproduce? Just a little confused by that element, though it's fun to try to pick up.