| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Soundtrack/SFX | #50 | 3.929 | 3.929 |
| Gameboy Soul | #52 | 4.214 | 4.214 |
| Overall | #90 | 3.729 | 3.729 |
| Interpretation of the Secondary Theme | #95 | 4.071 | 4.071 |
| Graphics | #151 | 3.714 | 3.714 |
| Gameplay | #227 | 2.714 | 2.714 |
Ranked from 14 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How does your game meet GBJam's theme?
Its a spooky fishing RPG for Game Boy
Really liked the sprite work on the game! I found the encounters with more than one monster a bit confusing to understand who I was attacking, perhaps there could have been an indicator on top of the monster you want to attack.
Very neat idea, congrats!
Such a fun idea for a gameboy game! Putting aside the jam bugs, this is a great little game! With some animations and some self closing dialogues, I am sure it will become so much more alive! Mind you, the turn based combat seems to work well, which is the toughest part when making a game like this.
The music is so fitting and the monster cries are exceptional! I really like that each monster had a different cry!
Really excited to see this game fully realized! Great work!
A cool turn-based strategy pirate/fishing game. Very well done on concept. I ran into a weird issue where my health was 0 after leveling up, but I'm happy to have gotten to that point. Also, bracing may be a bit overpowered with being able to get to 0 damage taken. I'd definitely like to see more of this!
Thank you so much for playing! I'm glad you enjoyed it.
So sorry about the health bug. I have fixed that issue in the first post jam update.. but the brace issue still stands currently.
I agree that bracing is OP. I'm currently thinking of ways to balance it better.
I very much appreciate you taking the time to play and provide excellent feedback!
I hope you come back for the updates!
Wow! I really like how you managed to use that pallette! The mechanics are really cool in general, the gameboy feeling its just at point and the music its really good! Maybe there could be some animations in combat for that "game feeling" so it FEELS like you're attaking. The experience its really unique and enjoyable. Really good work!
Thank you for playing and all of the kind words! I'm glad you had an enjoyable experience! I originally planned to make animations for attacking but had to cut the feature to meet the deadline! I plan to keep adding to the game until it meets the original vision, and I hope you come back to play a future version! I very much appreciate the feedback!
Great game! Really loved exploring the map and the graphics are very well done! The buggy health was the only real issue I ran into, but otherwise a really splendid game!
Such a great concept, the battles feel great and its fun to find new fish, its the type of game I could spend hours playing.
Super cool game. You have my respect for making an actual gameboy game
I agree with the previous comment: I would enjoy the combat more if it was shorter/faster. I really like the theme, concept, and art!
Fish!
I liked it! The overall art is very charming and the core game of exploring and finding new fish is quite fun! Checking on Info about the zone helps a lot with choosing where to go next. I haven't encountered the Overlord yet but I'm keeping an eye for it.
Although there is some parts that gets in the way of enjoying the game fully. My main gripe is with the combat sequence, it feels sluggish and some auto-advancing for the enemy turn would help improve it. Also some more UI info for the combat would help too, like which enemy is which when selecting it to attack. And I think the health is a bugged because when I died it didn't restore back to full health, even after interacting with the lighthouse, so any encounter I would die in a turn or two. Also critical hits felt quite frequent too.
But other than that it's a very good entry and I had fun playing it, well done!
Thank you so much for playing! 🙏
I'm thrilled that you liked it! I'm so sorry for the bugs!.. I fixed the most pressing ones right away, but then realized that uploads are temporarily turned off, so the update will sadly have to wait. Until then I put the update on my discord server!
Those are great ideas! I ran out of time and had to cut the enemy choice numbers, among other features.. all the unforeseen permutations for the dynamic enemy choice sucked up a bunch of time 😅... and It's also my fault for starting the jam a few days late... and making the map so large without the help of dynamic tile-maps.
Right before the the deadline I decided add some needed features including one to increase the max health on level up, but then didnt have time to test it.. So yeh. I must apologize profusely, the health is terribly bugged in this build. It pathetically sets the player health to 0 when you get attacked by agro level 1 or 2 fish.. which are the easy ones. This was my fault.. I made an event to name a variable that I was using in a script, since GB Studio wont allow you to name variables in scripts, then by mistake, I forgot to delete the event that zeroed the players health. Looking back I wish I would have put the jam on my calendar! 😄
Thank you again, and I very much hope you come back to check the update in the future! Sorry Its not available on the itch page right now!
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