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Fisklike (FishFest Game Jam 202404)'s itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Fishiness(?) | #45 | 4.390 | 4.390 |
| Overall | #99 | 3.712 | 3.712 |
| Fun | #105 | 3.488 | 3.488 |
| Visuals | #109 | 3.756 | 3.756 |
| Audio | #116 | 3.341 | 3.341 |
| Creativity | #154 | 3.585 | 3.585 |
Ranked from 41 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Notes (optional)
Fishlike is a real-time roguelike/dungeon crawler in which you play as a small fish who must navigate a hostile world to save his friends. Progress through randomly generated levels, rescue all your friends and eventually defeat the final boss and the game.
But as a small fish, your enemies will be stronger than you!
Gamepad controls (E.g. X-Box):
[Analog stick] : move
[🠔][🠖][ 🠕 ][ 🠗 ] : move
[A] or [Y] : Fire a dazzling shot
[B] or [X] : interact
[START]: Pause / Settings
Keyboard controls :
[🠔][🠖][ 🠕 ][ 🠗 ] : move
[Y] or [C] : Fire a dazzling shot
[X] or [V] : interact
[P] or [ENTER]: Pause / Settings
(If controls doesn't work check them using P or Enter --> Options --> Controls)
Devlog (optional)
https://streak.club/u/zellkoss
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Art and sounds are nice. Good job!
Thanks !
This is fun little pico 8 game, the music and art is really good!
Thank you for you comment !
Hey I Saw Your Progress On The The Log Page And Im Glad Everything Worked Out, Game Was Pretty Neat, And Challenging
Thanks a lot for you comment. :)
Cute pixel art and fun, challenging gameplay. I also like the music and sound effects. Good game!
Thank you for your kind words.
Neat game! I think that the enemies could use a bit longer flee duration when they get hit, as they didn't give me much of an opportunity to get away when I hit them.
Thanks for your comments! Good point about the flee time, it is a bit clunky and I should have designed it differently. It's a good lesson for my next game jam!
Fun game. Tried to save everyone, but it provided to be quite a challenge. At the end, settled to just beating the boss. I noticed that if you died while stalactite was just falling, it's position was saved for the next round. Overall optional challenging goal and option to just go to the boss was nice. Great job!
Hey, thanks for your nice comment ! Good catch regarding the stalactite, thanks for reporting it :)
this game is made in picocad that makes it 1.4x cooler. and it was pretty cool to begin with. cool. fish
Thank you very much, Pico-8 is a very nice tool to use. I would recommend it 100%!
god i acidentally said pico cad so embarresing
A nice and well made game! I like the art, and the music fits well too! I also like how your character has like a vision circle(?). I thought that was cool and made the enemies more terrifying. 🦈😩
I personally would have liked to use WASD for movement but that's totally a preference thing and not a big deal. I also feel like the coral could have change colour or disappeared or something after healing from it? I kept mistakenly coming back to ones I'd already used and then realising I couldn't heal again rip. 🪸
Overall though nice work! :D (I enjoyed checking out your devlog too btw!)
Thanks for your comment and kind worlds.
Good point about WASD, I'll have to see if I can configure it in Pico-8. As for the corals, it's true that I'm only removing the "health" animation, but it would have been easy to change the colour too, good point!
I'm glad you checked out the devlog, I spend some time every day writing a few words. It's also nice to look back on your first day and see how your game has developed.
The visual style is great! I also like that you provided a video with the full game, cause I died it before reaching the final boss and it was nice to be able to see it. Good job on the game! :)
Thank you so much!
The map and graphics awesome + a very creative idea. I love the way pico8 looks and sounds, it's a little unforgiving when a shark attacks you though, you need to react very quick. Really nice game though
Thank you for your comment and your kind words :). Pico-8 is definitely a great tool for making games, I would definitely recommend it.
Lovely game & graphics with some cool gameplay as well!
Thank you for your kinds words!
Very cute little game ! Good job :3
Thank you for your comment. Much appreciated !
Great game, I loved the atmosphere and the pico style. Definitely reminded me of some atari games I used to play.
Thank your for your comment !
Had a fun time exploring the map, very cool and nostalgic game!
Thank your for your comments and reviews. If you have any other comments or advice (what to improve, what did you like or not) please let me know :-)
Good work. I liked that there were two ways to play, rush or completionist. I wish the end screen showed your time. Was pretty fun to avoid enemies. I think the floors should have a palette swap on the environment, that would keep it more fresh I think.
Thank you for your comments and suggestions. You are right about the time, I did not spend much time on the start and end screens, they are definitely quite rough. Regarding the palette swap, that's a good idea, I was originally going to change the background colour from light blue to dark blue (to represent that you're going deeper and deeper), but ended up not doing it.
Nice game! Good job!
Thank you for your nice words !
It was a fun adventure, nice that the corals acted like a health station, but maybe having them heal every time might make the game too easy? It was a simple loop and I liked the environment, introducing new challenges along the way.
Thank you for playing my game and for your comments. Regarding the corals, they are multiple on the map (random number, depending on the level you are at, but you can only use them once.
But it's true that I decided to make the game easier, I wanted someone to be able to play and see all the levels and the last boss in 5-10 minutes. The reasons for this is that I assumed that most people will not allow much more than 10 minutes for each game they rate.
If I would do tha game again, I thing I would change the 3rd level to make it as a "boss". So the game would be 2 levels, 1 boss, 2 levels, 1 boss. making the game more dynamic.
Well done! Playable, fun, with a unique theme and vibe. Good music, too.
Thank you very much for your comment! Please note that the music was created using https://srsergior.itch.io/bebop. I don't have much compositional skills at the moment :-)
I loved the fighting mechanics but those enemies were pretty rude, honestly.
Hello Daydream Studios,
Thanks a lot for your comment! Do you think the game was to hard? How would you change the enemies ?
I think that the enemies were hard at times but once you've mastered it its easier to combat them :)
So it kind of balances itself out! Maybe having really slow enemies at the start would ease that challenge for any players that aren't total gaming professionals like me 💪😎
Nice game! I remember this one from the streak club. Do the fish you rescue do anything?
Hello pancakeIMP, thank you for your comment!
If you rescue all the fish, you not get the same end screen text. The goal, was mainly to get the player to explore most of the map .
But it's not mandatory, you can also just rush to last level and final boss.
(Looking forward to test your game when I'm back from work :-))