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A jam submission

Fish PondView game page

Lil puzzle game about fishes and ponds. (GMTK Gamejam 2024)
Submitted by GrmSeven — 2 hours, 31 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Enjoyment#2593.9433.943
Style#4354.2004.200
Overall#4443.9143.914
Creativity#14643.6003.600

Ranked from 35 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

How does your game fit the theme?
Fishes need to morph together to become bigger and strogner. But big fish can't swim throught some obstacles.

Development Time

96 hours

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Credits
Programming: DeveloperMikey, GrmSeven
Art: marinthedrawer
Music: Tear Stain
Sounds from pixabay.com

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Submitted

5 in enjoyment because it's actually really good!

The levels are pretty good, it's one of the few puzzle games here that made me think.

The concept might be a bit easy to simply brute force though, I don't know if you can expand it much further (but surely I'm wrong).

Great game for sure!

Submitted (2 edits)

this was very enjoyable and nice to look at too! I believe you could just have an almost full game in your hands.

The only complaints I have are that 1) as someone else said, the obstacles are not particularly clear in how they work, and 2) the last level was just a bit overtuned in comparison to the rest of them haha. I spent a while in the last level and almost quit after trying a bunch of times, but then I went "well this looks like the last level... might as well give it another shot" and magically figured out the right combination of movements after just two extra tries.

Besides that, you could add a bit of extra juice, make just one or two extra mechanics (don't have to be huge) to switch things up and you got yourselves a full game! I honestly think so (I played the heck out of 2048 so I'm kind of biased). Good entry!

Submitted

Very good game. I liked art style, i liked the mechanics, i liked the levels. Good job!

Submitted

Great design, sounds and visuals!

Great job, I like turning little fishes into one big one

Among the disadvantages I would say that the game does not explain how the obstacles work - at first I thought that I had stumbled upon an impassable level and this was some kind of troll joke from the developers

Also the last level turned out to be too difficult for me

Thanks for the wonderful game, great job

Submitted

Looks very finished, each level gets progressively harder and introduces the scaling mechanic very smoothly! Joy to play :D

Submitted

Damn that's a good looking game. Puzzles are really well designed and satysfying to solve. Everything is super polished and fun to play. Good job!

Submitted(+1)

I like these types of puzzle games. Really nice sounds and art too. I could see playing this on my phone before bed kinda vibes. Very chill and enjoyable, well done!

Submitted(+1)

I concur about the level design and the difficulty curve. Nice job! Love the movement speed up for buffered commands.

Submitted

The puzzles were a lot of fun, with the perfect amount of increasing difficulty. And I love the art style! The flower-filled edges and the water pattern are so nice to look at. Amazing work :)

Submitted

The game is cute! Also, well designed puzzles with a reasonable difficulty curve. We were working on implementing similar puzzles to be a subset of our submission but didn't manage to get it working correctly in time, so I am glad to see it executed well elsewhere!

Submitted

You managed to create a sensible learning curve without creating 10 similar easy levels at the very beginning. The rules are very simple, presented without unnecessary text and yet the gameplay seems very deep and rewarding.

And the aesthetic is just so cute and nice to look at :)

Submitted

What a lovely game! Managed to complete every level and it was great to see the difficulty progression. The game is very well polished and fun, congrats on your work!

Submitted

This had really good (really quite difficult) puzzles and such lovely art, very enjoyable all round. The only thing that I would have liked would have been a single action undo button but it was brilliant without one. Great job :)

Very cute :) I like the puzzles, they are really fun to figure out. I like that they are challenging but not frustrating. I would love to play more if you decide to add to it in the future :)

Submitted

This is SO CUTE, I love the fish and the aesthetics and it's so relaxing!!

Submitted

Nice Sokoban game, levels are well designed. I also love how butterflies are the sliders

Submitted

Pretty straight forward puzzle game. Nice art.

Submitted

Level 9 was devilishly difficult! Merging the fish felt very intuitive. The lily pads and cattails a little less so for remembering which fish could pass through, but it was easy enough to figure out again for each puzzle. Great game with some lovely art.

Submitted

I love a good puzzle, and the art was very pretty! Very good game :)

Definitely one of the prettiest games I've seen. The idea is cute and the puzzles are actually pretty challenging, but doable. Very relaxing and stimulating to play! Me and my friends had a blast trying to figure out how to complete the higher levels :)

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