Ponding Experience (bugfix)

This is a bugfix version that fixes bugs that prevented the player from accessing a large chunk of the game that contains music, voiceover, and animation created during the game jam.

The post-jam version, which implements features we did not have time to implement during the game jam, is available here.

The submission build is available here.

You are a small archerfish in a small pond. Your cozy life consists of shooting flies and racing scavengers.

One day, you inexplicably grow a pair of legs. Now you can hike to the next pond over and talk to frogs! Team up with your tiny neighbors to take down the biggest baddest purplest fish!

Controls:

• WASD to move
• SPACE to speak to other creatures
• LEFT-CLICK to shoot bubbles (above water)/kick (below water)
• RIGHT-CLICK to drop beetle bombs

All art, music, SFX, writing, and voiceover (!!) completed in the most sleep-deprived 72 hours of my life for Ludum Dare 56.

We also recorded a bunch of voiceover that we didn’t have time to implement, so definitely check back later for the post-jam version that tells the secret story of why that big fish is just so damn aggressive.

Bugs Shot

v2.7

• Mosquitos appear on screen
• Boss battle starts at end of Gilly conversation
• Decreased frog quest goals
• SFX fixes (player eat, boss lines, walking sound frequency, bomb fizzle)
• Fixed scavenger indecision

v2.6

• Fixed boss health bar not appearing
• Reconfigured colliders to prevent unintended pushing/getting stuck
• Fish1 quest rest no longer freezes player
• Fixed player fish changing direction rapidly when mouse is in center of screen
• Fixed level boundary

v2.5

• Fixed boss fish audio issues
• Fixed boss kick inconsistencies

v2.4

• Fixed explosion audio
• Fixed scavenger behavior
• Fixed bomb inventory tracking
• Fixed out-of-order dialogue lines

v2.3

• Fixed explosion visual
• Made NPCs easier to access
• Fixed appearing/disappearing bugs
• Corrected sprite layers

v2.2

• Talk to Gilly quest ends correctly, although now Mama's language about is missing now. D:

v2.1

• Removed boss instakill bug
• Recruits now get eaten first
• Player respawn after boss kill
• Bomb beetle collision fixed
• Battle music plays out of water

v2.0

• Made Boss Battle possible to access. Does it work? I don't know, you tell me.
• Fixed NPC images and icons not appearing
• Fixed big fish chasing player at random times
• Fixed Bomb inventory UI updates and Bomb size showing incorrectly