Fishing for Compliments
2022
Fishing for Compliments was a 72-hour project made for the 2022 Mini Jam 106: Frogs^2.
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In Fishing for Compliments, you take the role of a single frog trying to fight boredom by fishing and looking for possible dates.
The game is played in 3 steps:
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Control the depth of your bobber in order to find the catch of your (love) life and dodge any potential catfish.
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Successfully complete the spinning mini-game in order to prove you have the speed and precision to reel in fish, and love.
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Learn more about your catch and see if it's a match.
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The limitation of the jam was the time limit which we utilized through finite time to play each level, which gets further shortened through failure, as well as through the time- and precision-based mini-game to catch fish.
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As a way to further challenge ourselves, we also took on one of the limitations that were not necessary: 2 button controls. The game is played solely through 2 mouse buttons.
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During this project, I co-designed the game, created all of the assets for it, and designed the project page as well as the narrative.
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The game was rated by 33 people (making it one of the most popular and most rated projects) and scored 8th out of over 300 submissions, and its concept landed as high as in the top 3.
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