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Jack Flaghill's Hyper Fishing X-TREMEView game page

Why fish when you can fish X-TREME?

Submitted by shieldman — 2 hours, 7 minutes before the deadline

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Criteria	Rank	Score*	Raw Score
Creativity	#52	4.033	4.033
Fun	#63	3.767	3.767
Fishiness(?)	#117	4.100	4.100
Overall	#117	3.620	3.620
Audio	#195	2.967	2.967
Visuals	#205	3.233	3.233

Ranked from 30 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

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I didn't really finish the game. It works, but there's only one and a half enemies and much more limited gameplay than I'd have liked. Still, it has a title screen, game over screen, and POINTS! Gamers love points, right?

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SalamanderXVIIISubmitted250 days ago(+1)

Loved the dynamic of this game.

This was challenging as well. Although i felt like there is a huge difficulty spike after a certain amount of points. It would be cool if difficulty would be more evenly spread throughout the whole proccess.

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shieldmanDeveloper250 days ago

For a peek behind the curtain, every fish spawn decreases the delay for the next spawn. So technically yes, it does get exponentially harder (the faster it spawns, the faster the decrease happens, etc) but it's capped after 50 spawns. If I had managed to add more complex fish, I would definitely have worked in a different difficulty scaling thing. But I really appreciate you playing and the kind words!!

Tianya ShiSubmitted252 days ago(+1)

Really fun game, love the punch gameplay so much, I was shifting around looking for fishes. I love the POINTS. The red warning UI really helped me to react when the fish came near. Well, the bubbles for fish were rarer than I expected, I like the game. Good job making the game!

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Abyssal Nightmare

shieldmanDeveloper252 days ago(+1)

Thanks! I had a feeling that points would be a big hit, haha :) I experimented with making the bubbles more guaranteed but I couldn't find a way I liked before the end of the jam. Thanks again for playing!

ZeperoxSubmitted252 days ago(+1)

I never knew fishing can be this fun

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A Swordfish's Revenge (FishFest)

StoudSubmitted253 days ago(+1)

The game's fun and quite challenging! :)

Played it for a while, tried to reach 50 000 points but 34 200 is as far as I went. (Might upload gameplay, I'm allowed?)

I know you stated that you won't probably update it, but if you would, consider adding either an invincibility timer after getting hit (Those moments when there's lots of fishes and you go from 3 to 0 lives in a couple seconds is a little frustrating) or a blocking ability (probably would go well with "S").

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shieldmanDeveloper252 days ago(+1)

I'm glad you liked it!! You're totally allowed to upload game footage, but you have to show it to me, haha. Invincibility and blocking are great ideas - I might just have to revisit this after the jam, and I'll be sure to keep that in mind!

StoudSubmitted251 days ago (1 edit) (+1)

That's great to know! I'll stay tuned for the next update and of course I'm more than happy for you to see the footage, I'm still deciding about either making one long video of me playing all the games or upload each gameplay separately (the former is more likely, therefore I might upload it a while after the GameJam ends)

*I hate that this looks like self promoting but-)
You can find a link to my channel on my creator page! Just in case...

PotosinSubmitted253 days ago(+1)

This is an interesting game! Took me a while to find out that the punching was based on mouse position. Very creative and fun!

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shieldmanDeveloper253 days ago

Thank you! Yeah that seems to be a recurring issue. I didn't have time to put together a proper tutorial, but next time I'll be more aware of stuff like that. :)

rhumSubmitted254 days ago

Loved the artstyle ! Kinda reminded of old flash games like alien hominid. How nostalgic

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shieldmanDeveloper254 days ago(+1)

Getting compared to Alien Hominid is the highest praise I could ever receive, thank you so much lmao

GriffjaySubmitted254 days ago(+1)

You did a great job with this! The game is fun, the art's good, and the concept is really unique.

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Aquarium Clicker

shieldmanDeveloper254 days ago(+1)

Thanks! I was really trying to break out of the mold of typical fishing games with this one.

SwiftMakesGamesSubmitted254 days ago(+1)

Cool game and I don't even think I downloaded a virus

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An Ordinary Fishing Trip

shieldmanDeveloper254 days ago

That's the level of quality I aspire to!

bunny-bombSubmitted255 days ago(+1)

Fun game and very cool mechanics!

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shieldmanDeveloper255 days ago

Thank you, I'm glad you liked them! :)

hatsukegeroSubmitted255 days ago (1 edit) (+1)

YEEEY LOTTS OF POINTS.

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shieldmanDeveloper255 days ago(+1)

I KNEW gamers would like points. I'm a genius.

hatsukegeroSubmitted253 days ago(+1)

einstein 2

CrisLoyalSubmitted255 days ago(+1)

Fun Game!

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shieldmanDeveloper255 days ago

Thanks so much!

CGpepperSubmitted255 days ago (4 edits)

i'm getting a virus warning from HYPERFISHING.exe

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The fish that could fly

shieldmanDeveloper255 days ago

Yep! That happens with the .exe exports a lot. It's trustworthy, but if you aren't cool with that, try the installer download instead. It's more intensive but won't flag your antivirus.

SkosnowichSubmitted256 days ago(+1)

The idea is great and I really dig the art style. In the beginning I was really frustrated, because I didn't realize that I had to point where I want to punch, thus fishes seemingly spawned in areas where I couldn't reach them. Some sort of indicator (e.g. moving the fist when moving the mouse) would have really helped here. All in all a intense and fun game!

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Bottom of the Blue

shieldmanDeveloper256 days ago

That's a good idea, thank you! I hadn't considered that.

NikoricoSubmitted256 days ago(+1)

I loved the 3 “wiews” you have while you could hit the fish from the near one. Was pretty intense and loved the art :)

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P3ggeSubmitted256 days ago

Love the idea, the game is very great and the art so funny

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They Are Hungry!

papyhardcoreSubmitted256 days ago(+1)

Love the idea :)

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sandsqSubmitted256 days ago(+1)

Very cool idea! I like that intensity of having to split your attention between different things

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Fish. Fashion. Fight.

shieldmanDeveloper256 days ago

Thank you! I wanted to capture the feeling of an FPS in a limited way while still keeping it true to a "fishing" ("""fishing""") game.

KeysandoughSubmitted256 days ago(+1)

FISH FEAR ME

This was very fun! I liked how when the fish got in range, there was red outline so I knew when to punch them. the gameplay was catchy and made my try a dozen times. I enjoyed this so much :3

shieldmanDeveloper256 days ago

I was inspired by rhythm games for the fish outline (and from previous experience with other games giving you no depth reference). I also couldn't stop playing it when I was playtesting, so I'm glad you felt the same! Thanks so much!

HopeGamingSubmitted257 days ago

It was fun XD
Say, what game engine are ya using ?

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Strongest Of The Sea

shieldmanDeveloper257 days ago

I used Gamemaker 1.4 because I'm old, which they don't sell anymore, but I've heard Gamemaker 2 is very good. I'm glad you liked it!

Mehmet Berkay CorukSubmitted257 days ago

Gameplay is catchy, mechanics are solid, overall a really fun game.

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shieldmanDeveloper257 days ago(+1)

Thank you so much!