Fishin' - Open-World Fishing Game | Official Unity Discord | Page 1

ivory gale Nov 4, 2024, 11:45 PM

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Welcome to Fishin'! A singleplayer open world fishing game, in this game it's pretty simple. You can go fish wherever you want, in any body of water. First you have to start off at a dock, but once you get better you can buy some new rods and buy even boats! You can travel to new islands around the map which yield different fish. You can even just fish in the ocean on your boat. There are different types of fish you can catch, which you sell for cash. You can also complete quests for some of the NPC's around the map to get more cash for a more adventure experience. I'm still working on this game for a project but I hope it becomes something good.

I want to get this off the bat. I know about "Webfishing", the new popular fishing game. I created/started working on this game BEFORE it came out. I was really sad to see someone beat me to the idea, but just because people will say "Hey! Your copying!". I plan to use different types of fishing methods and gameplay. I will continue working on this game because I made it, and I will be proud of it no matter what.

If you have any feedback, it would be greatly appreciated!

upper echo Nov 7, 2024, 2:45 PM

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How did you do the rendering? Is it pseudo-3D? Looks really cool

ivory gale Nov 8, 2024, 9:06 PM

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upper echo How did you do the rendering? Is it pseudo-3D? Looks really cool

It's 3D with a custom shader for toon shading and also pixelation shader.

upper echo Nov 8, 2024, 9:28 PM

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Interesting. Do you have any videos of gameplay? The only thing I can say is to maybe distinguish between the water and the fishing rod just based on the photo on the left

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I tried making a fishing game myself but gave up because I spent too much time obsessing over the water and less on the gameplay. Might go back to it and cut down the scope lol

ivory gale Nov 9, 2024, 4:44 AM

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upper echo Interesting. Do you have any videos of gameplay? The only thing I can say is to ...

I want to continue it but I'm losing motivation a bit and want to go to Godot, and it has been rewarding, but I don't know. It would be fun... my scope was too big though.

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Godot is really good for 2D games, like really really good. I think it may be more fun for me in general too.

sick matrix Nov 9, 2024, 6:41 AM

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this looks pretty cool!

ivory gale Nov 9, 2024, 4:38 PM

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Ah I'm missing Unity. If I do Godot I can't make good 3D games anymore.

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Back to work on the fishing game!

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Fishin' - Open-World Fishing Game

ivory gale Nov 9, 2024, 5:11 PM

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Fish will now move randomly inside the bar. Took me a long time to get it lol.

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Each fish is a scriptable object so I can easily create new ones and they each have some data

ivory gale Nov 9, 2024, 6:10 PM

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I also switched to third person, what do you guys think?

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Or is 1st person better?

pliant narwhal Nov 9, 2024, 6:46 PM

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kind of depends on the type of game, if its meant to be more immersive then 1st person is the way to go for example

ivory gale Nov 9, 2024, 7:12 PM

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Here is in the middle of catching a fish

upper echo Nov 9, 2024, 9:49 PM

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ivory gale I also switched to third person, what do you guys think?

in my attempt, i had done third person and it was more complicated for me personally because i've never made a third person camera

upper echo Nov 9, 2024, 9:50 PM

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ivory gale

is this a minigame? how does catching the fish work in your game?

ivory gale Nov 9, 2024, 9:59 PM

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upper echo is this a minigame? how does catching the fish work in your game?

Like the Stardew Valley fishing minigame. The fish randomly moves around, you click to move a slider up and down and you have to keep the fish in the slider.

kindred oxide Apr 27, 2025, 8:18 PM

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I feel like we’ve seen too many of the same fishing minigames, maybe there’s something new to invent or maybe a random minigame per fish/rarity?

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