Mini Fish and Game

Press when the float goes under, hold to reel, let go to ease, and keep the line in the amber: too tight and the hook pulls free, too slack and it is gone. Every catch fights its own way. Some only come up after midnight, and not everything on the hook is a fish. Land one without leaving the amber for a clean-line bonus, then see what the creel adds up to after ten casts. Runs in the browser, on a keyboard or a phone.

Developer commentary

The fishing started life as a minigame inside a larger game that is still in development. This is that loop lifted out on its own and rewritten in plain JavaScript: the same waits, nibbles and fights, with an outing and a score wrapped around it. The picture is drawn in code and the sound is synthesised, so the whole game is a few small files and no images.