Fishbowl News

Hey everyone,

Thank you so much for playing the Fishbowl Demo and giving your feedback! Based on your messages we've made some updates to the demo, here are the patch notes:

[h2]🌱 Features[/h2]

• Hint for Unpacking puzzle
  
• Improve control scheme
  

[h2]🐞 Bugs[/h2]

• Remove double knocking SFX
  
• Fix soft-lock on fridge, shower and desk
  
• FIx typos
  

We're still looking at the scaling issue that some of you have reported and also more features that have been requested. Being a two-person team we can't commit to timelines yet, but are grateful for all the feedback we've received so far.

If you have any other feedback please do email us, or leave a comment here.



Love,
Rhea & Prateek
💜 imissmyfriends.studio

Hi everyone!

We are thrilled to share with you that the Fishbowl Demo + Trailer have released TODAY!!

We can’t wait for you to finally enter Alo’s little world and
💬 stay in touch with loved ones
📦 rediscover childhood memories
💻 work from home as a video editor
💜 know yourself better one day at a time

The demo is a peek into the game where you will be able to play the first day of our month-long story. We hope it gets you intrigued for what lies ahead.





It’s been three years of working on Fishbowl, (two years part-time and one year of heart-pouring full-time). We couldn’t have done it without friends and family who cheered us on, helped us with play-testing and certainly did not let us miss them, while we made the game. You know who you are ^_^

It really wouldn’t have been as fun or full without all of YOU! Our Fishbowl community!

Hope the experience of playing the demo stays with you while we are hard at work on the full game.



Tell us what you think of it and also, tell us if you spot anything… um… suspicious.

Fishbowl demo out on Steam (Mac + Windows) and PS5!


Love,
Rhea & Prateek
💜 imissmyfriends.studio

Hi everyone!

Today we want to tell you about the unpacking puzzles in Fishbowl and our thoughts behind them.

When you solve unpacking puzzles, you will rediscover childhood memories from our main character, Alo’s, past.

The puzzles require you to move objects around in order to ‘get’ the one at the bottom.

These puzzles have you unpack objects belonging to Jaja, Alo’s grandma, who passed away a little while ago. They tell stories of significant moments in Alo’s life, growing up.



Some of these objects will be dear to Alo, reminding her of a simpler time spent together with friends and family, while others may dive deep into some secrets.

We are hoping for our Indian friends to be able to spot a lot more than catches the eye. Like the Maggi and Hot and Sweet ketchup there. IYKYK.

Also, spot the box of ‘mathri’, a savoury flaky cookie or cracker from North India (Rajasthan) popularly eaten with ‘achaar’, Indian pickle. Yum!



Let’s dissect the objects in this one puzzle. Don’t worry, we won’t give away the object at the bottom which will give you a memory!

📗 Cross Stitch book: Jaja preserved this book through all these years.
🪡 Cross Stitch Embroidery: Some floral embroidery Jaja was working on.
🧵 Colourful threads: Jaja made sure to collect new colours of threads to add to her collection.
✂️ Scissors: Jaja’s trusted scissors which Alo was not allowed to play with when she was little.
🚃 Train: This wooden train toy is inspired from wooden Channapatna toys made in South India (Karnataka) that we love. If you like how this train looks, google it to see lots more beautifully hand-made toys.
🪙 Coin Purse: Jaja’s little coin purse, which would double up as Alo’s when she’d wrap Jaja’s sari around herself and pretend to be all grown up.
🧶 Yarn: Just some blue wool. Maybe Jaja was about to start making something new! 💔

Hope you enjoyed going through the objects in this puzzle with us. Fishbowl has lots of them so stick around for more. We are excited to share how to solve the puzzle and the memory you will get too, but all in good time. What would you like us to post about next? Leave a comment below!

Love,
Rhea & Prateek
💜imissmyfriends.studio

Hi everyone!

It has been so much fun to be in The Storytellers festival!

We’ve been
✨ wishlisting games
👾 checking out cool demos
🥰 and seeing people react to our very first broadcast!

Hope you had the time to check out both the event and our broadcast which is live here on Steam! In case you haven’t, you still have time till the end of the week. It was a lot of fun to answer questions from our community across Twitter, Discord and Instagram. Hope we can do many more broadcasts in the future and tell you lots more about Fishbowl.




Love,
Rhea & Prateek
💜imissmyfriends.studio

Hi everyone!

Very happy to share that Fishbowl is going to be part of The Storytellers Festival, an event hosted by Two and a half Studios.

If you like
📖reading
🎮playing games
👾and reading while playing games
this is the event for you!! 😀



We both enjoy games with rich stories, some of our favourites which actually inspired us to make Fishbowl are To the Moon and Night in the Woods. Both these games left a lasting impression on us much after we finished playing them.

Speaking of stories, here are some we are currently enjoying:

Watching: Natsume’s Book of Friends
Reading: The books of Earthsea
Playing: Omori & Sea of Stars

Excited to see narrative heavy games at this event and add them all to our wishlists!

A fun thing we are planning for this event is that we are broadcasting for the first time! We are nervous and excited. We will tell you more about Fishbowl and also have an AMA at the end to answer questions you all have. If you have any questions about Fishbowl, our characters, the story or anything else please leave them down here, we will make sure to answer them!

Hope you join in the fun from 29th January to 6th February here on Steam!

Don’t forget to leave your AMA questions in the comments below!


Love,
Rhea & Prateek
💜imissmyfriends.studio