FishMoto - similar game for iPhone

[Zweq]

nice read, but I don't see why you're so unhappy about not making a fortune. That's totally not the point of indie development, at least imo. Didn't everyone who tried the game, enjoy it? Isn't that the whole point? I think it's a success, it's just on wrong platform.

[JTown]

nice read, but I don't see why you're so unhappy about not making a fortune. That's totally not the point of indie development, at least imo. Didn't everyone who tried the game, enjoy it? Isn't that the whole point? I think it's a success, it's just on wrong platform.

I agree with you about what indie game development is all about, but I don't think I ever expected to make a fortune -- I just hoped it would do decent enough to help support me. I have a part time job that barely pays the bills -- I don't need to be rich, but I need to make enough money to support myself (and I don't right now). I can't really spend time working on my own games if I can't pay rent

Right now I'm spending most of my time doing freelance programming but I have several ideas (some related to FishMoto, some not) that I want to do on the side.

[analcactus]

hm so there's no version for WM?

[JTown]

Nope, but it is on Kongregate now, so you can play on Mac/PC with the Unity web player plugin

http://www.kongregate.com/games/Overpow ... s/fishmoto

[Mats]

cool game , some bugs annoy me thou. Can't hold space while starting a lev, and the 3D effect is not only visual but deadly.

[Bludek]

This is so much better on pc. It's sickly hard on iPhone... Totally impossible to control the bike correctly.

[Lousku]

Very cool! Höyling for a total time, will report back in when I finish all decently.

[Hosp]

Awesome game JTown! Make for Android too please, since I would like to play it in school and stuff. :)
Atm while I am unable to play Elma, dunno why I will höyl this game.
After a bit of playing now TT of the first part with 15 levels is 05:59:34
Was kind of ez learning to control the bike.

Will you make like best times tables or something so you know WR's and sach ? :)

[Lousku]

Höyläd for about an hour, first 15 levels TT now 5.42.82.

[Hosp]

Lous, time on level 1?
Edit: Log on to MSN please need to speak about times. :)

[Lousku]

Bejesusing fuck, I got a bit addicted. Played for a couple of hours.

5.28.30

[Hosp]

Played with Lous for some hours but I cant do one of his styles, so impsy so I have mega bad TT :( still:


Some 05:0x:xx of TT would be my limit I guess on the first 15 levels.
But for pros I guess 4minutes very high might be possible. At least 5min high

[Kazan]

very nice game
got 9:16 in 1st level)

edit: 8:78

[Kazan]

4:xx very ez)

[Lousku]

Damn. Played my TT down to 5.23 last night, but times were erased for some reason. Sik times Kazik! =D

[Hosp]

My current TT and times:

EDIT: 5:15:xx atm

[jonsykkel]

after a few hours (); very game

[Xiphias]

For the pc version(version on kongregate) please add Customizable controls. My arrow keys are broken.

[Pab]

6.11.76 :f i pretty damn bad. didnt get control of bike yet and missed the map the first times.

In the other hand its really fun game, had a good time playing.

[Mats]

For the pc version(version on kongregate) please add Customizable controls. My arrow keys are broken.

Haha, just like my old comp where up and down key are broken "wonder why". In the left and up arrow my fingerprints are melted down in the buttons

[Kazan]

tt 5:09:01
4:xx is hard)

[JTown]

I really like all the feedback guys -- feels great to have people enjoy my games

cool game , some bugs annoy me thou. Can't hold space while starting a lev, and the 3D effect is not only visual but deadly.

Yeah I don't really like playing in 3D -- just there for people who want it (was really easy to add to the game since the game is already 3D and I just have to change the camera settings)

Bejesusing fuck, I got a bit addicted. Played for a couple of hours.

That's what I like to hear!

Awesome game JTown! Make for Android too please, since I would like to play it in school and stuff.
Atm while I am unable to play Elma, dunno why I will höyl this game.
After a bit of playing now TT of the first part with 15 levels is 05:59:34
Was kind of ez learning to control the bike.

Will you make like best times tables or something so you know WR's and sach ?

Don't think I can afford to work on an Android version

Leaderboards are a possibility though

For the pc version(version on kongregate) please add Customizable controls. My arrow keys are broken.

Hmm I'll look into it

[Lousku]

Leaderboards are a possibility though

Pleeeease! Total time leaderboards too! Just a simple all-time top100 would be perfect.

[JTown]

I'm finishing up another iPhone game (doing programming for another company) so I'm busy but I'll try and put in leaderboards when I get the chance. You'll need an account on Kongregate because I'll be using their API, but I plan on having the times you earn now carry over when the leaderboards go live

Also, it'd be a huge help if everyone rated the game 5 stars

[Zweq]

5.19 is my first page tt atm, not sure i wanna play more, at least if no scoreboard.

About the game itself:
The music is annoying, is it supposed to be played in menus only? Because it keeps playing in the game, but after some time it might randomly stop playing and after some time starts again(some time being 5 mins or so). The tune itself isn't too bad, it's just loud and quite unfitting during the actual gameplay, it fits fine in the menu. I can't seem to find play again button after finishing a level, pressing enter takes you to the next level, even if the current level was finished before. Level design is bad, or at least looks bad(with my currently horrible skills). There are bowls every 5 secs, some 9 sec level has 5 bowls. What the fuck?

That's with the bad news, the good news is, the rest. The game mechanics are definitely better than in xmoto. The graphics and the sounds I can live with.

I don't really know, there's just something wrong with this game, it's like trying to be a difficult game, but because it's for iphone / browser without (apparently) advanced tricks it's also trying to be a casual game. Browser games are not for me, they feel inconsistent, like there's no this 2nd (virtual) life to be lived Only a true master piece might work like that, such as dolphin olympics 2.

[FinMan]

The level quality is kinda bad and does not let the player decide almost anything at his playing, too many of those bowls(?) that make you have only one possible way to go or do. Some kind of minimap would be appreciated in some cases.

Yeah, enter moving to the next level annoyed always after I found a good level and wanted to play it more.. Seems like this game is moving to the next map almost always.. That is really frustrating, especially when you die and press the replay button it moves you to the next track instead of replaying the level. And in these cases the delay you get when changing maps becomes huge, or at least it feels so....

[Hosp]

Please leaderboards now JTown, will höyl this all the time in school. Very nice game, fix some things like Zweq said, that you can play same level again easily etc. And replays and sach.

[Kazan]

for hosp)
http://kopasite.net/up/0/fish2.bmp

[Hosp]

game not on kongegrate anymore very sad plz give this game again