Wrangler's Knot - Deep Dive Sea Fishing by welby

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made by welby for Ludum Dare 48 (COMPO)

wranglersknotcoverimg.png Wrangle em up and haul em in. Get the big boy at the bottom.

Wrangler's Knot - Deep Dive Sea Fishing by welby

made for Ludum Dare 48 Game Jam

WASD - Movement

E - Angler Loop Knot the Chain, (only when in close enough range to highlight the chain-link)

[NO SOUND] (in case you thought your audio was messed up haha)

Bringing fish close enough to the boat catches them.

Catching fish increases your Max Chain Length.

Try to create a long enough chain to catch the big boy at the bottom of the sea. WK-sc3.PNG

Ratings

Overall 609th 3.224⭐ 31🧑‍⚖️
Fun 533th 3.207⭐ 31🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 164th 3.759⭐ 31🧑‍⚖️
Theme 310th 3.793⭐ 31🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 678th 3.017⭐ 31🧑‍⚖️
Humor 260th 2.958⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Mood 508th 3.148⭐ 29🧑‍⚖️
Given 31🗳️ 42🗨️

Feedback

LDJam user 127637
26. Apr 2021 · 04:48 UTC
Nice graphics & atmosphere, I was happy to discover that we could even fly haha :)
![eJsfKFU2n1.png](///raw/592/f1/z/3d2a4.png)
TomekS
26. Apr 2021 · 04:51 UTC
Very nice and innovative mechanic, like the fact it gets darker as you go deeper.
🎤 welby
26. Apr 2021 · 05:06 UTC
@mahjoub i originally kept that from happening with a quick-fix, but i'm not surprised the game still has that bug at this point, haha! I'm gonna have to add sky and space fish to make the most of the feature.
3LSTMsInATrenchcoat
26. Apr 2021 · 05:10 UTC
I love the colour choices and the ambiance. Good transition from cute to kinda spooky.
tengusheath
26. Apr 2021 · 05:38 UTC
Really fun mechanic. Best part was discovering I could fly in the sky. The graphics are really cute.
Sbug
26. Apr 2021 · 06:16 UTC
Lovely graphics and a really interesting mechanic. The game got a bit hard to control when the chain is supper long since the barge just keeps spitting it out, but great job overall!
JedeMac
26. Apr 2021 · 08:32 UTC
This is so great, I thought I was entering a cave, turns out I was capturing a giant creature^^
Love the mechanic, so much potential with that chain. It's very satisfying when you can start to make huuuge loops.
CodeGlitch0
26. Apr 2021 · 15:45 UTC
Excellent game! This is one really sucked me and definitely has that completionist vibe. The strategy is fairly simple to make sure you get every last fish once you get a longer net, but I really enjoyed playing it.
Chensu
26. Apr 2021 · 23:08 UTC
Love the graphic and the control of this game :) Love the lighting on the cloud, really good stuff. Keep up the good work
BoClow
27. Apr 2021 · 06:53 UTC
Unique concept! It was fun to try to haul as much fish as possible and it was satisfying to see them get pulled up to the boat. Managed to catch the "big boy" after 3 tries as the net pulled it a bit higher every time before breaking.
chris-mondok
27. Apr 2021 · 13:56 UTC
Very cool, I really like the idea! I was a bit confused about how to use the knot, usually it would delete the rope but the fish were still left just hanging out by the boat.
mrnyarlathotep
27. Apr 2021 · 13:58 UTC
Nice compo entry, and good approach on the theme.

I would have liked a little more messaging on what was going on, like a bar that fills up as you catch fish to show something is happening, or an indicator on what my max rope length was so I knew it had gone up?
🎤 welby
27. Apr 2021 · 14:50 UTC
@chris-mondok Teaching players to "tighten the loop enough" before reeling in was a challenge. I was tight on time when setting the correct distance to collect the fish, so those distances are very rough. Thank you for playing.
🎤 welby
27. Apr 2021 · 14:53 UTC
@mrnyarlathotep I agree. I had ppl tell me that they didn't even know they could reel-in, which is the only way to reset the rope to the max rope length. It would have been a relatively easy fix too. I guess I was in a hurry at the end. It's rly a shame for me.
Thanks for the feedback.
Brigadeirim
27. Apr 2021 · 15:50 UTC
Great game! I love the mechanic and cute graphics!
RNGames
27. Apr 2021 · 17:40 UTC
✔️ Very nice graphics and colours. I liked the lighting and depth effects in the water.

✔️ The controls and gameplay were very intuitive.

➖ The movement speed felt a bit slow.
Eugenik
27. Apr 2021 · 17:49 UTC
Bit hard for me , but i like your artworks.
xpoho
27. Apr 2021 · 18:41 UTC
Я очень рад, что могу поймать таких больших чудищ, и они меня не съедят.
Игра затягивает - как буквально, так и в переносном смысле. Спасибо! ^_^
airwaffle
28. Apr 2021 · 17:50 UTC
Yes! Sky fish, definitely sky fish! I scared all the fishes away, and once I did it was quite hard to get any back within my chain-boundaries. The name really helps with initially explaining the game, which is nice!
LALAKI7
29. Apr 2021 · 19:17 UTC
Interesting idea but the physics felt pretty wonky. At one point I suddenly got launched up into the air for some reason, that looked kinda fun. Also like how it gets darker the deeper you go.
Cinsynate
30. Apr 2021 · 21:11 UTC
It's a deceptively fun game for what it is! I think it has a lot of potential. The fish sprites were charming, but I do think it could benefit from some more work after the jam! I was able to swim into the air- and chase some fish ahead of me into it, which was interesting but probably not intended. I also found it was often more functional to lasso a bunch of fish and drag them up to the boat by swimming above it rather than using the built in wranglers knot function, but that would obviously change if you were restricted to the ocean.
Hobzone
09. May 2021 · 22:41 UTC
the graphics are nice, it was fun when I discovered that I could fly ^^.