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The Mario DS minigames were exactly the inspiration!! :D I was playing them recently, great party games if you have multiple DS's! Wanted to include multiple minigames but had to reduce the scope so chose to only do the best one!! :3

we didn't get that far 😅

hii, as a long time jammer, I can maybe probably hopefully give good-ish advice?! ✨

- Keep the scope small 🤏
Game jams are hard, expect everything to take waaay longer than you'd expect. It's usually recommended to start with a small idea and then build on top of it rather than starting with an overwhelming big idea, but they are also valid!

- Try new things, Experiment & Learn! 🧪
Game jams are perfect for doing new things you've always wanted to try! Even if things don't work out, it's still experience and you will get something out of it!

- Don't be afraid to share! 🙌
Don't give up! You don't need a "perfect polished game", even if something barely works, still submit it! Putting something out there and getting feedback is super valuable! Everyone starts somewhere!

- Have fun!!! 🎉[Most Important]
Just a reminder that these are done in your own time because it's something you want to do! if you are feeling negatively in any way, you are under no obligation to continue, remember to look after your mental & physical health 🧡

hiii, looking for a cool team to collaborate with for this jam!! ✨✨from Scotland, dm me on discord if interested (discord username: "cypri") 🧡

pros:
-good programming ⌨️
-decent design 👾
-okay art 🌸
-hates capitalism 🔥
cons:
-sometimes silly 🤭
-i forgor... 💀

Nice game! ✨Good writing & art! Fun little civilised fish story with supernatural elements!

Cool game! Got lost in level 2, found the secret area but not where I was meant to go, oops! I think focusing on polish than content would be nice, especially for game jams, but the level design is nice! (even if some sections are unclear). I personally don't like the lives mechanic, just makes it a bit frustrating especially since they are shared between levels. I experienced a bug where reading sign whilst moving doesn't stop your, making you walk off the edge and lose all your lives (oops again) I really like the level select area, very smart to tie everything together. (also cool how the pollution so bad they even got smoke underwater!)

Thank you so much! :D ✨

Thank you! ✨

TY!! ✨✨

Thank you!!✨

Thank you for playing and feedback! ✨

The snare drum is a pretty integral part of the song so it would be hard to change, but to try make it less stressful we've made it a bit softer and quieter, so it won't be as harsh in the post jam builds 🙂

Thank you!! ✨ 

The whale shark is so good!! Shout-out to our artist for the amazing & silly idea of having the whale shark fill up the whole screen! 🤭

TY!! ✨ 

yeah, sadly I didn't have enough time to implement undo/ redo as there were other more important features! We only got started like halfway into the jam so couldn't get everything we wanted done 😭 

😱😱😱!

Helloo Charliee!!! 👋 Thank you for playing! ✨

Very fun and creative concept!! ✨I like that there is some learning about each fish! The premise of the game is very silly and I love that! 💖🐟

Very fun! ✨ I liked the level design with secret routes! It would be nice if the speed boost refreshed when going through a hoop, but great job! My fastest time was 58.447s!! ⌚🐟

Thanks for dressing!! ✨

Thank you for dressing and streaming this!!✨

Thank u!! ✨

Spooky!! 👻Thank you for chocolate ship flavoured cookie!! 😋✨

Very fun & polished!! ✨The art is nice and the customisation options are a cool feature! This is a fun idea executed pretty well!  The paw hitbox is a bit unintuitive at first, but maybe some kind of marker for the centre would be good? Also the pufferfish were a bit too annoying, sometimes spawning under the paw made me insta-press them so maybe some kind of warning indicator would be nice, but also in general if a pufferfish is in a bad spot it felt like a run killer which made getting a high score feel very reliant on pufferfish RNG, but the game is still very enjoyable and you did a great job!! 🐟🐈

Simple, but very nicely done!! ✨

Very fun rhythm game with nice effects and cool music! 🎵🐟 I felt like song 3 was a lot easier than song 2, so if the plan was to make it progressively harder, I would personally swap those, but overall great job!

Feels extremely polished and clean! Simple but relaxing and enjoyable gameplay!! 🌌🐟

Thank you! ✨

Layering behind the fish was discussed during development, which whilst probably a good idea, I made the quick/ easy decision against it to prevent the players from losing stuff behind the fish, but revisiting the idea, it is possible and will be a feature you can turn on in the settings in the post-jam update as it is useful to those that want it!

The magic of video games!! 🐟👙 Thank you! ✨

fishy!!! 🐟🐎

Thank you!! ✨Your seahorse looks stunning!! 🌟

TY!! ✨Makes me really happy hearing that people are happy playing this! :3 (I assure you all "accessories" are ethically sourced and you'll just have to trust us™ 😉)

Jamshark == Best shark!! ✨ (don't tell Blåhaj I said this 🤫)

Brecht is Perfect!! ✨🧡

Thank you for playing dressing!!! ✨

Thank you! ✨ THAT fish would kiss you too! 💋🐟

Thank you!! ✨

very fun! simple with good design, well executed! managed to get ~30s :3

Thank you for the feedback! You can activate the valves again on the way back! 😊

Try beat my time of 2:18! 😊

Edit: I recorded better times and put them in description, let me know if you manage to beat them!

np! hope you enjoyed what was there :)

Thank you for the feedback! ♥

I actually really wanted to make it into a rhythm game after playing it with the music as I was also missing balls in testing! but decided it was too much work for a short time, so just decided to make it a relaxing jam and polish instead