Fishbowl News

[p]Hi everyone![/p][p]After a long break to focus on Fishbowl’s development we are now back with regular game updates! Having a community to come back to feels really special and we don’t ever take it for granted. Thank you for sticking along![/p][p]Today we’ll give you a glimpse into the video editing mini-game in Fishbowl.[/p][p][/p][p][/p][p][/p][p]Alo works as a junior video editor at Sitara LLC. It's a media company run by a big social media star named Sitara. Alo grew up watching and admiring them. When she was a kid, she’d often watch Sitara’s channel with her friends. Cut to now, having this job feels like a full circle moment for Alo. [/p][p]Over at Sitara LLC, they have lots of writers, graphic designers and of course, video editors working to make sure all the work that Sitara creates and uploads is perfect![/p][p]Video editing in Fishbowl is a colour/symbol matching game. You move the clips to sort them into the correct track. The video editing levels vary from easy to hard depending on the work pressure for the day. Sitara is usually working on multiple projects at a time, so there is a LOT to do sometimes. [/p][p][/p][p][/p][p][/p][p]Although you work from home, Alo’s manager, Iris, makes sure you aren’t alone. She teams you up with various colleagues so you have company while you work—[/p][p][/p][p]👩🏽‍💻You get to meet new people[/p][p]🔥Learn from them and what they are good at[/p][p]🎯Level up your skills as well, if you’d like to! [/p][p][/p][p][/p][p][/p][p]Each new colleague you meet, will have their own ability which they will teach you. So hopefully, your everyday job is full of fun and something to look forward to![/p][p]If you aren’t very good at editing videos, worry not, your colleagues will be by your side, and you will still progress in the game. However, in a slightly different way! 😉[/p][p]And perhaps, you will get to meet your boss, superstar streamer Sitara as you play along! [/p][p]Hope you enjoyed getting to know about Alo’s job! We will be back and explore another fun part of Fishbowl, maybe a deep-dive into a new character next? What would you like to hear about?[/p][p][/p][p]PS: Some news! Fishbowl is part of the Midwinter Spirits event on Steam starting this week! 🥳[/p][p]PPS: If you’d like to give the video editing game a shot, do check out the Fishbowl demo on Steam! 👾[/p][p][/p][p]Love,[/p][p]Rhea & Prateek[/p][p]💜imissmyfriends.studio[/p][p][/p]

[p]Hi everyone![/p][p][/p][p]We are super, super excited to announce that we have partnered with Wholesome Games Presents! The folks at Wholesome Games have been early supporters of Fishbowl, and we are so happy we get to work with their brilliant team to bring Fishbowl to a cozy, wholesome audience that enjoys emotionally resonant and hopeful games. [/p][p][/p][p]👀 Watch our announcement on Wholesome Direct 2025[/p][p]👩🏽‍💻 Play the Fishbowl demo if you haven’t already[/p][p]✨ Make sure to wishlist Fishbowl and all other games that catch your eye in the showcase[/p][p][/p][p]We are both working hard on the full game and making it with a lot of love and care. Watch this space for more and you can also follow us on our socials to stay in touch![/p][p][/p][p]Love,[/p][p]Rhea & Prateek[/p][p]💜 imissmyfriends.studio[/p][p][/p]

Hi everyone! 💜

Thought we’d do a little recap of our recent development journey and take you all through it!

🌟 Last year Fishbowl was announced as part of Sony’s India Hero Project.

It was quite a surreal feeling to have our little game be partnered with this industry giant. As our first game, being a first time studio and a two person team, we still pinch ourselves over this. We are super grateful and we are working very hard to make a game we feel proud to send out in the world one day.


🕹 In May we launched a short demo of our game!

In case you haven’t gotten to playing it yet, give it a go. In case you have played it, thank you so much for checking it out! Hope it gave you a good taste of what's to come.


🎨 We got to experience the joy of seeing Alo and Paplet in fanart!

It made us bawl our eyes out! Thank you so much Louie Jams for this gift.



Credit: https://ko-fi.com/louiejams


🙌🏾 Fishbowl was a finalist in the Gamemaker Awards for Most Anticipated Game of the Year and the Winner of the Wings Award at SXSW Sydney.

Through the award monies we were able to support four causes close to our heart - Citizens for Justice and Peace, Internet Freedom Foundation, The Wire and Dreams on a Pillow.


💪🏾 We made a lot of progress on Fishbowl

We have a very, very, VERY rough version of the full game being playable. We will soon focus on the art and animation, connecting the narrative systems, internal playtesting and QA, reaching script lock, making music, adding sound and all that very good and very intimidating stuff for the new year. Wish us luck!


🦋 Lastly, we are now on BlueSky and you can follow us there!

We haven’t been very active on social media due to our work schedule but we are hoping to share consistent updates soon. All our other socials are linked below too and since you’re here, you are in the right place for important updates already!


🙏🏾 As always, thank you so much for being here, for supporting us and encouraging us on. After two years of part-time and two years of full-time work, we are going into the fifth year of development with a lot of determination. We can't wait for all of you to be able play what we have made!



Love,
Rhea & Prateek
💜 imissmyfriends.studio

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Hi everyone!

Fishbowl’s trailer was released alongside our demo and we'd love to take you through it! But before that, if any of you played our demo, please take a moment to leave us a review. It would help us a LOT in continuing to make Fishbowl visible to other players on Steam.

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The first person you meet in the trailer is Iris. She is Alo’s manager at work and Alo directly reports to her. You will have many conversations with her about work and also life.


Iris loves film making and she is also a DIY queen! We’ve made sure to have her home reflect that. There are a lot of objects that Iris has made herself. This sewing machine is inspired from the Usha sewing machines which were really popular in India at one time.


We then show you a bunch of self care and home care tasks that Alo does at home. The game starts off with the home being pretty barebones and as time goes by new activities and a few areas get unlocked. The home becomes more ‘alive’ over time.

The thing with all the care tasks in Fishbowl is that you can do as much or as little as you are able and you will get an outcome as per your choices and decisions.


Next up is our job that we do from home. Alo is a video editor and video editing in Fishbowl is a colour/symbol matching game. You are partnered with different work colleagues and they have their own abilities and challenges that they bring along to the video editing game!

This is Bulbul who seems to have messed up a previous file. Alo is going to try her best to help fix it.

Do your best Alo and Bulbul! 💜

Bulbul is an intern who has also moved to this new city like Alo. She lives in a teeny tiny studio apartment where the kitchen, hall, bedroom are basically just one room, AND with six other roommates! She’s figuring out how to cook so it's cheaper than ordering in and we are excited for you to see Bulbul’s story unfold in Fishbowl.


We then have Menguzonuo whom we all know and love! She has been working here for a long time. She is a pro at video editing and usually wants to finish work quickly!

A quick note on what we are actually editing! We work for this big social media influencer and content creator named Sitara and we are basically editing their vlogs and films and all such.


This is Alo’s mum! She runs Alo’s grandmum’s tea shop. As you know, Alo’s grandmum, Jaja passed away a little while back. And here, Alo’s Mum is thinking of giving away all her things. There are many such crucial choices in our game, which will create big and small changes in the story that you experience, as well as in the endings.


Alo ends up with all these packages containing things which belonged to her grandma. Jaja preserved these sentimental objects over the years. You now need to unpack them one at a time and progress in the story of the game.


This is Zuari, Alo’s childhood bestie who is a bit concerned about how Alo will go through all these packages.


These are our unpacking puzzles! When you interact with a box, an unpacking puzzle opens up. It is full of objects that feel nostalgic and sentimental. Also, some you can’t really make much sense of. To solve the puzzle, you free up the object at the bottom. So move things around and try to ‘get’ the special object underneath.


This is our journal! All the objects in the boxes will go into Alo’s journal which will tell you a little bit about them. The object that you uncovered might give you a memory. How you get these memories is a bit of a secret and we’d love for you to play the demo to know more about it.


This scene is an example of one such memory that Alo has received from an old object, a beloved record player. Memories sometimes unlock an activity. This record player lets you play tunes from the past whenever you’d like!


Along with memories Fishbowl also has this dream world of sorts which tells you more about the past as well as Alo’s inner thoughts. We have created this area with a lot of care and it has little details that will tell you more about the story if you are paying attention and observing with a keen eye.


Our trailer ends with smol Alo and her friends on the terrace looking at the evening sky filled with stars.

Hope you enjoy playing the demo and meeting some of these characters, experiencing some of these events. A reminder, if you’ve already played it, do leave us a review here and share with us what you thought of it!


Love,
Rhea & Prateek
💜imissmyfriends.studio