aquatic anthros my beloved

Anyway that aside, I like the general idea of this game but it really feels like absolute luck of the draw if you're trying to aim for a specific character. Maybe that is the point? I'm not particularly knowledgeable of the genre that is suggested by Fishing Game. I liked the hosts, and our hapless protagonist, too, though, but I will admit the game doesn't appeal to me mechanically enough for me to keep trying to roll the a different number five times at the mercy of the RNG.

Nice concept!

I kept accidently shooting the fishing rod way too far but other than that it was fun and the dialog was nice

Very cute concept with cute with cute character designs and fishing puns! Also love me a fishing game, and the mouse movement is unique to me.

Beautiful art and pretty funny dialogue! I like it

Wth this is genuinely beautiful, the art is amazing, the characters are fun, the way they bounce around on the screen is so cute, I love this.

So, I’m trying to run this through Windows Sandbox, because a game jam seems like a good time to be cautious. It’s nothing personal – I’m doing this for all the Windows software I can! (When I can’t make Windows Sandbox work, I’m shuffling things over to a Parallels VM on a Mac, because that’s the other VM I have available…) This game seems to be unable to launch in this configuration, I get an error:

player.exe – Application Error

The application was unable to start correctly (0xc000007b). Click OK to close the application.

A quick search suggests it’s a .NET application that isn’t self-contained, or a Visual C++ application that is also not self-contained (but can’t be fixed quite as easily).

If this is not VC++, could you recompile it as a self-contained single file app (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/deploying/single-file/overview?tabs=cli#publish-a-single-file-app)? That seems to be the advice I could find for a quick Google search for making a .NET application “just work” in Windows Sandbox.

If this is Visual C++, which version of the Visual C++ redistributables do I need to install first?

Thanks! Looking forward to trying your game once I get it working.