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A jam submission

Bait & SwitchView game page

Fish with your friends! A remote island, comfy vibes and plenty of fish.
Submitted by sootycat, TheTree, Isilmera, Jelutite, Wiloux (@Wiloux_), SexyCookieEater, akakiira, Tey — 5 minutes, 19 seconds before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Macrow's Picks#3n/an/a
Limitation#203.9293.929
Overall#223.9173.917
Gameplay#263.7863.786
Theme#414.2864.286
Polish#483.7143.714
Art#504.2144.214
Audio#593.5713.571

Ranked from 14 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

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Comments

Submitted(+2)

My friends and I loved sharing our fish!

Submitted(+2)

Really good bait n switch haha get it lol. Really do love it though, and it would be really cool to see a completely realized version in the future

Submitted (1 edit) (+2)

Maybe the real fishes are the people we smashed along the way

Submitted (1 edit) (+2)

Very enjoyable experience, thanks for hosting! :D

Things I loved:

  • Extremely good premise XD
  • The networking worked great! Better than at least half of the indie steam multiplayer games I've bought, and it was running in web player!
  • The art is fantastic, again near-release indie game quality (especially that skybox :O)

Things I'd love to see:

  • Not sure if the fish have different "stats" but if not that'd be cool, if so maybe a bit more obvious
  • Idk it's pretty solid, you could flesh this out and give everything a one-pass and it'd be a great lan party game :D
Submitted(+1)

This one is silly and I love it! Had some issues with web player that was not sure existed in the downloaded version. The chat box was tricky to understand in game, the cursor did not blink like it did the in lobby when active and took a few tries to close it. There was a lot of "wwwwwwwww" in the chat XD Spoilers: Hit boxes were a little weird, I don't think the movement mechanics helped (I felt a bit as if I was walking around on a rocking boat) Visuals were cute, I can see this as a fun game night game with friends!

Submitted(+2)

The multiplayer components are really impressive and the gameplay loop is fun with friends! Great job on this one!

Submitted(+2)

Excellent game, super fun with friends, fishing is fun, hitting people a fish is also really fun, the music and ambiance is great! There's a proximity voice chat and a chatroom?!?

(+3)

Cozy and great summer vibes. Had a great time showing off my fish to everyone! Seriously though, good job to the devs, this has a lot of potential.

(+3)

Super cute fishing vibes! I love being able to eat the marshmallows by the fire. 

(+3)

Very cute game! Love the perfectly peaceful fish tower building simulator in which nothing could ever go wrong

Submitted(+3)

Played this game with tofu (the user not the food) and it was very fun

Developer(+2)

Thanks for rating! We're really grateful that you organised a multiplayer session and gave our game a try <3 We saw your game on Bytesized's stream earlier and the art is incredible, can't wait to try it too! :)

Submitted(+1)

yoo you were in the stream too?? sick

Submitted (1 edit) (+2)

you guys should host some sessions on the jam discord sometime and ping me so i can play and rate your game :3 it looks mega cute

edit: got to play the game with another jammer! im really glad i did too because that was such a cute and cozy experience! we were both surprised at the fish pvp lol what a goofy and fun project c: awesome job!

Developer(+2)

Thanks so much for trying our game and organising a room with other jammers! We're really happy people got to play and I hope you enjoyed the twist :) We'll all make sure to check out your game too!

Submitted(+2)

It seems you need at least 2 people to even play the game, if someone wants to try it please reply to this comment!! Cause it looks cool but there doesn't seem to have any solo functionality

Submitted(+1)

you can ping me on the jam cord if you’d like to hop on sometime soon c:

(+2)

This is a cool multiplayer game. The artwork is really nice and the 'switch' element is cool. The music could be more cutesy but otherwise great game.

(+2)

Cute concept! Had a lot of fun slapping my friends! The change in the intensity of the music is kinda crazy

(1 edit) (+2)

Reminded me of Monty Python's Fish Slapping Dance  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8XeDvKqI4E. What's not to love!   Cute  art work!

Submitted(+2)

Haha nice twist