Great fun, l really like the atmosphere and the styling with the mythic/runes theme. I definitely see what you mean about the fishing mechanic being similar, I really like what you did with the runes as kind of obstacles/difficulty, great idea! In a larger version of the game, different runes could do different things, positive and negative, and possibly even buy your own runes to help.
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So cool story, originally the runes were gonna be used for a sort of spell casting system. Then were changed to a set of modifiers, then finally to just a single penalty modifier due to time constraints. We have some plans after jam to add in a bit of the stuff we had to trim back and turn this into a solid portfolio piece for us. Not sure if we’ll end up Steam-worthy but I want to get it to a much better and more feature complete state.
Its such hard thing with game development, so many ideas and so little time. This game jam is my first completed game jam and first 'completed' game in a long time. I think this game would make a great portfolio piece to finish off. Feel free to reach out if you need any playtesting in the future. Would love to see what you end up with for the runes mechanic.