Fish Folk: Jumpy

Devlog

• Launched on Kickstarter - united against loneliness
  May 26, 2023 by erlend

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  Holy smokes I'm so anxious right now. We've had this thing ready to go for months, but I've been putting it off. I underestimated how profoundly vulnerable it would feel to have my talking head be pre... Continue reading

  
• Welcome to the world of Fish Folk
  August 03, 2022 by Spicy Lobster

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  Following our decision to rename our flagship game ‘Fish Fight’ to ‘Jumpy’, in order to be on equal ground with the other games in what will be a fishy game bundle , one last name change feels... Continue reading

  
• Spicy Lobster (Open Gamedev) Company
  March 22, 2022 by Spicy Lobster

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  #community, #coop

  Our 🌶Spicy 🦞Lobster studio venture is among the first of what we hope will become a common type of company, designed first and foremost to Do Good by means of radical openness. Good Game Develop... Continue reading

  
• Open Gamedev School
  February 10, 2022 by erlend

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  #community, #school

  Prelude Here’s a snapshot from the Fish Fight chat some months ago: I went to game design school twice. I had to leave mid-way through the 1-year intensive course the first time I enrolled, because... Continue reading

  
• Everlasting Games
  January 22, 2022 by Spicy Lobster

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  #open source, #transparency

  A lot of really good computer games have been made in the last few decades. Many of them are designed with such elegant simplicity that, technically, they have no expiration date. And yet these wonder... Continue reading

  
• Fish Fight's past, present and future
  January 06, 2022 by Spicy Lobster

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  #retrospective, #community

  Past 2018-ish: Erlend and Jakob start racking up countless hours of Duck Game couch-play. No game&chill hangout is ever without it from this point onwards. As it gradually dawns on them that Duck Game... Continue reading

  
• Fish Fight Netcode Explained (part 1)
  September 16, 2021 by Srayan Jana

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  #netcode, #tech

  For our netcode in Fish Fight , we use a variant of deterministic lockstep called Delayed Lockstep. It consists of a peer-to-peer architecture running a deterministic game, which requires very little... Continue reading

  
• Open Hiring and $100 internships
  September 14, 2021 by Spicy Lobster

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  #internship, #hiring

  Here at Fish Fight inc., we practice open hiring. This makes our hiring process exceptionally simple. How to apply: Help out with a bit of Fish Fight development. — Congrats, you’ve entered our hi... Continue reading

  
• Fish Fight is open source
  September 06, 2021 by Spicy Lobster

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  #open source, #community

  As promised , after months of private prototyping together with a growing number of early invitees, we're finally ready to make our code and community channels available to the general public. See thi... Continue reading

  
• Fish Fight - Reloaded
  August 07, 2021 by Spicy Lobster

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  #origin, #open source

  Today we released our very first pre-alpha trailer . Now that we're officially out of stealth mode, here's what you should know. Commercial but open We are making an open source game (MIT/Apache repos... Continue reading