Comments for Fish Legend Fish

Yea that's a good suggestion, that's where I'd like to take the game given more time and I'm glad you see the interplay between the collections and progression. At the moment I'm doing rapid prototypes to see which game the community ultimately wants so unfortunately I have to put this on the shelf right now. I'm actually already starting the 2nd game right now so bear with me!

Yup that's the direction I'd like to take it. Skill trees make everything better :)

Thanks for the input, I would definitely want to revisit that curve in a full game. I did keep it high though because well......there's no other content beyond that lol

Hah yep I actually have those in place, with Gargantuan being the largest and would take up several screens. You may have to stand by on changes though as I'm still in a rapid prototyping phase.

lol it's true, if we can't go around firing fishing lasers at shrimp irl anymore, we better have a virtual option.

Great feedback, I haven't heard too many comments about the gamefeel for the different species so that's helpful. Yea I like the idea of swarms too. I think the current pond is a good introduction but I'd love to play around with those concepts more. Especially say, a pack of fish that kinda travel in a big circle route and you have to intercept them.

That's a good point and I actually didn't think of that. I was more worried about the healing and aggro rules as is though. Atm you heal to full when you go into the dock. Potentially I could add rules where they don't aggro you while in the dock as well. Regardless of the aggro rules it'd be possible to keep ducking in and out of the dock to heal. I can certainly change that up where maybe you don't heal instantly, or you need to go to a separate bay to heal or something, but it just kinda cascades down the design so I'm hesitant to touch it right now. Yea it's no biggie right now but if I had some boss fishes, then that could cause issues.

Totally, those are all good ideas. I actually had variation in the form of length/weight differences (like most fishing games) but took it out for the sake of simplicity. I can definitely revisit that if I have a longer amount of time to playtest.

I actually didn't think what I could do with rightclick, there's a lot since it's just a movement game. Goto is a good idea since it's basically just RTS movement. I could also save that button for some kind of sprint/roll too. Thanks for the suggestion!

And a whale of a time!

Thanks for playing, and you're right, this prototype stops at 5 fish species essentially. I apologize that's the limit right now as I didn't expect this many players. I'll certainly keep this in mind in the future and plan for more content.

Yea this issue has come up a few times now. I think ideally I just space out the fish spawn zones more, because if it's a safe zone it could be abused in certain kiting scenarios.

Those are dangerous waters out there!

Bass collection level 4: Booty is brought back

Haha, the ol lifesteal build!

ooo special fish is an interesting subject, I didn't think of that. Off the top of my head they could give temporary boosts like now you're surrounded by dolphins and your speed is crazy, or the seals automatically keep dropping fish off onto your boat. I'm also pretty interested in what a haven or home base would be like. Like I have an idea of what it'd look like but I'm not sure what systems would go into it. I played around with the idea of having a day/night cycle where some fish only came out at night, kinda like Cat Goes Fishing. Hah I like the idea of online, and I REALLY like coop games, but that will probably have to be a different game. I really like your ideas and I'm glad you're excited about the potential!

Noted, I'm definitely going to try a different approach with future games or iterations. I haven't gotten enough information to fix this issue yet though unfortunately.

Hah yea, it's not an ideal situation. I'd certainly love to have enough content for players, but yea it's better than if everyone hated the game :P

Appreciate that, glad it has a good foundation to build upon.

Thanks for letting me know!

Thanks for playing!

Thanks for the feedback! Yea balancing the values was tricky for me in the beginning, but hearing people's comments definitely shows me what direction I could take. The bass do technically have more hp, so if you do have more armor, then the bass end up becoming more difficult to catch. You make a great point though as those swordfish will wreck you in the beginning. I'll certainly give this point some more consideration.

That's a great idea and a lot of fishing games do this well, where you have the camera spin around the player really quick to highlight the new fish. I appreciate that acknowledgement of me needing resources to do everything but that's the goal!

That's not totally your fault. I took a lot of shortcuts to build this game quick enough. I'm still going to do that but I'll be a bit more careful each time.

Thanks, I'm trying pretty hard on this front! I hope to have a Discord set up sometime but I haven't really had the time lately.

Glad you liked it, I very much feel the same thing every time I fire up a fishing game and am happy you like the more fantasy RPG interpretation of it.

Appreciate the comments. Having a small little prototype helped show me whats working and what's not, so I'm glad people like you are commenting and reviewing!

You're just too good at fishing games probably :)

Thanks! As a prototype I really wanted to make sure the core gameplay was solid so I'm glad to hear it.

Thanks for your support, I'll let you know if it does :)

Thanks for all the ideas, you're totally in line with my thinking and I share a lot of similarities. You have a lot of good ones here, especially the mermaids ;). But yea, plants could be a way to help the farm situation, especially right now as you max out your boat, you start catching fish way faster than they spawn. I do wonder what something like a settlement would entail. I've seen a few comments here talking about a home base and I think it's an interesting feature to explore, I'm just not too sure what it'd have yet. And lol@ the flying fish and birds, would you just be catching them in the sky or maybe need an upgrade to hit that layer?

Good question! My current goal here is to do a series of 5-wk prototypes each exploring different incremental game concepts I haven't seen before. After doing a few games, I'll then review feedback and basically pick a winner to flesh out. This game seems to really have momentum so it's a good (and only) candidate right now. I have a lot of ideas which is why I want to stick to a strict schedule in order to knock them out.

Thanks! Happy to know people see the potential.

Thanks for playing~

Really appreciate the detailed feedback and the fact that you went through to check out some other comments. Yea I think the idea has ended up pretty solid and I'm glad you can pick apart a lot of my intentions with the game design, including the dreaded 'fish going through walls' lol. I agree that it may be a solid shot just moving forth with this idea, but that's the reason why I'm keeping the deadlines super strict. If I do 5 wk prototypes that should keep my downtime as low as possible while still having enough time to flesh out new ideas. I'm definitely taking your review into consideration when the time comes :)

Oh wow, I didn't think of that. You're the first person to point that out, I'll see if I can think of a solution but great catch!

Not weird at all! One core feature I had planned for was a unique fisherman system, where your boat might have 3 slots open but have to choose from 7 fishermen (however many you've unlocked), each one w abilities that help w certain situations like aoe, or good for long battles. I also had different ranges planned because then you could customize your playstyle with long distance vs short. Thanks for asking about my progress! I actually do have a Discord coming soon because I really want to foster a back and forth with the community (as you can probably tell from my commenting habits). I'll ping you when I have it up because I'd love to chat w a fellow dev about this stuff, especially since you have some great ideas there.

Wow thanks for the thorough deconstruction of the economy! Dunno what you do in life but you'd make a great game designer or tester. I think you make a great argument for adjustments and it makes a lot of sense. I kinda eyeballed the values with only limited testing, but you have a great process and framework for identifying the growth curve. You're right that a good design should have tradeoffs between easy and hard fish, with the hard fish getting easier to handle over time as you gain new perks yet more rewarding. The only thing I have in place to prevent spawncamping the shrimp is that the spawn rates aren't maxed out, so afaik if you truly wanted to be efficient, you'd have to make your rounds around the different fish areas. I'll make the value changes but keep the health as is just to make it easier on the non-hardcore players. I'm glad you see eye to eye with my fish design philosophy and how it should all come together!

Yup you're right, the game is currently a prototype as I'm kicking out rapid prototypes at the moment and trying my best to update what I can. Thanks for not being too harsh on the game despite that.

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I'd like to do that some day for sure. I think the right systems added to the mix could really make it work.