Battle Chasers: Night War | Fishing
Warning: If you are playing the game and have not caught all the fish, perhaps avoid spoilers!
The fishing minigame in Battle Chasers: Night War is developed from a prototype made in an internal game jam. It was one of the funnest things I worked on and I remember putting in 70-80 hours that week and still wanting to do more. I mainly focused on UI and concept art during the jam and my teammates did all the heavy-lifting.
Thanks to everyone making this happen, especially people who busted their butts with me during the jam: Hakan Borazanci, Andrew T Nguyen, Andy Hansen, Ayhan Aydogan, Javid Ali.
These are made very quickly to meet the deadline of the game jam.
Some of these fish were drawn based on silhouette/designs of Andy Hansen and Ayhan Aydogan
Prototype UI that got adopted by the main parts of the game and was eventually developed into final UI by Billy Garretsen.
First sketch establishing the looks of the experience. I wanted way too many features for a game jam to support that would add too much complexity to the game anyway, but this is the blue sky stage!
This is how it ended up in-game, Kudos for everyone making this happen. Special shoutout to Andy Hansen for figuring out how to make the water and world-building all of our fishing mini-scenes, Andres Ortiz and Billy Garretsen for presentation and UI.
A sketch to help sell the idea of Gully fishing.