Magical Fisher Agnes

[Regnsloja]

A team of magical girls (and 1 or 2 boys) transform to fight demon monster fish from the depths.
Agnes would be the main character, "agn" means fishing lure in swedish so... Yeah. Never make a game without puns or wordplay!

No idea about gameplay, I'll be trying to come up with something in time for the jam. Probably something actiony, but we'll see!
I think I want the player to be able to choose which fisher to play, like the old Power Rangers or Sailor Moon (or Turtles) games.

Here's two quick sketches I threw together:
https://twitter.com/Regnsloja/status/332089621792034816/photo/1
https://twitter.com/Regnsloja/status/332169075256066048/photo/1
That's supposed to look a bit like fishing pants... I dunno.

[jspapp]

I'm really looking forward to this one, love the sketches and pun!

[LionelJitro]

Haha, this sounds fantastic.

Definitely sounds like the perfect set-up for cheesey word puns.

[Regnsloja]

Thanks guys

I've decided on gameplay now, it'll be the "combat" of Umihara Kawase, while the game has a Rodland/Bubble Bobble-like structure of levels and hopefully 2 player like those games.

Basically, you'll have a simple rope (not springy like Umihara) with a lure(crystal) at the end, you throw it out there and try to hit enemies. Hitting them makes them hooked, and you can reel them in to damage them.
A hooked enemy takes damage from touching you, but it's vice versa with unhooked enemies.
Damaging an enemy will unhook them and push them away so you'll have to hook them again if they have more HP.

So, kinda arcade-y action centered around a rope-gimmick. Hopefully with some cutscenes inbetween levels and of course lavish transformation sequences.

[jspapp]

Sounds really cool!
The mechanic sort of reminds me of catching ghosts in Luigi's Mansion, can't wait to see how it turns out.

[Regnsloja]

Posting this here too... Opinions on costume design?
https://twitter.com/Regnsloja/status/336794774956822528

Edit: https://twitter.com/Regnsloja/status/336808977562234880

[Regnsloja]

Agnes sprite...

[btxsqdr]

hey, nice artwork

[Regnsloja]

Quick screenshot update in the middle of final stretch crunch...
https://twitter.com/Regnsloja/status/338651236834373633

[Regnsloja]

Here we go, I call it done and time is up! No music and some pics are real sketchy, but that's a jam!

1-2 arcady fishing action
My biggest regret is not having time to make the characters play different (in a meaningful way like special attacks) :/

It's Java, so it's cross platform... Tested on Linux and Windows, should work on Mac as well.

http://www.mediafire.com/download/oylc448m5o0sqnu/MagicalFisher.zip

Enjoy