Fish Game News

Hello everyone! Fish Game has been out for a year and we're ecstatic you've all stuck with us.

We held a vote on Join our discord to decide on what everyone wanted to celebrate with, and the winner was SNAKY LOACHES. Our animation can't handle them amazingly so they're gonna move a bit weird, but we asked and the general consensus was that weird-movin' snaky loaches was better than no snaky loaches.



So they're in! Update your game and you'll be able to find them in Glass Wilds, Community Commons, and Weird Pal.

I'm burned out (hence things being a bit quiet lately) so won't get into a big retrospective right now but just want to say we cannot overemphasize how meaningful it is that we've found this many people who understand what we were going for. It's tremendously validating.

And, to be clear, we'll work on Fish Game forever if we can. We've reinvested every dollar we've made (and more) back into development. We have not reached out final form.

Anyway, no self-respecting update email is complete without marketing-expert-recommended calls-to-action:

Join our discord to participate in the next content vote.

Leave a review! Tell your friends!

Please enjoy my wiggly bois song.

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Best,

G

In just under a month, Fish Game will have its first birthday!

To celebrate the first anniversary of the game's release, we're going to add a special colouration for a fish! It'll be for a fish that's already in the game or will be included in a future DLC pack, but a brand new previously unplanned colouration.

We're asking our community members to vote on which fish should get the special variation, so hop on over to our Discord to participate! The poll will be open until October 10th, so make sure you cast your vote in time.

Here's a sneak peek at how the voting is going so far



Thank you for all your support so far. We love working on Fish Game, and we hope we're able to continue working on this game for years to come.

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Thanks to our Superfins beta testers (this and more on the Discord! https://discord.gg/qrHdQnFk ), I was able to corner and smoosh a whole bunch of plant related bugs this week. Sorry to anyone who might have had disappearing plants! You can get them to reappear by clicking on them in the Plant Panel; they will reappear in a bubble, so you can put them back where they belong. Thanks for playing. We appreciate you!

-Ryan, the one who makes the bugs

• Fixed bug the prevented hardscape from being placed high enough in short tanks.
  
• Fixed bug that broke plant loading for plants with a period in their names (Made them disappear when trying to add to the inventory)
  
• Fixed floaters not being spawned into stores.
  
• Fixed some plants from being spawned with broken rotations.
  
• Added way for phantom plants/fish to be spawned back into the tank so they can be managed. (Clicking on them in the panel spawns an identity bubble)
  
• Fixed store spawning problems that were sending plants, hardscape, and fish to the very bottom of the tank almost always.
  
• Reorganized the way the substrate and water both animate in to prevent situations where the height is lower than it should be based on an animation state.
  
• Added a last ditch fix to plants that spawn in with no components, which would make them completely invisible and ungrowable. If this happens they should hard reboot, creating a newish plant in the same location.
  

We have a winner! Congratulations to Kosmo for their winning tank! Inspired by swamp biomes around the world, Kosmo edged out 3 other runners-up in our most recent aquascaping contest judged by AVNJ.



It was an incredibly close call that required three rounds of voting. There can only be one winner, but we can't resist showing off the submissions from the other finalists:

Newt's "Emerald Cove"

Shai's above-ground pond

Lord Hosh's 3300+ gallon tank


A huge thanks to AVNJ for judging and his viewers for voting, and a massive round of applause to everyone who participated. There were so many incredible submissions and we continue to be totally blown away by what folks are able to create in Fish Game!

Thanks to Kosmo's win, the name "Peaches" will now be added to the game. Kosmo will also receive a free voucher for the next Fish Game DLC.

See you all at the next contest!

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The improvement to the UI for substrate made it almost impossible to select food. It should be fixed now, so you can feed your hungry carnivores! Thanks, everyone, for bringing it to my attention; tell your fish I'm sorry, and their lunch is on me!

-Ryan, the one who makes bugs