FISHPUNCHER

FISHPUNCHER is a FIRSTPERSON FISHINGGAME

FEATURING UP TO ONE(!!) VARIANT OF FISH

This game is engineless and built on top of glfw, vulkan-hpp, and the bullet physics library in C++, mainly as practice with low level graphics and memory management. Over the course of the two-week jam, it went from a 'hello triangle' fixed state renderer to an almost-game-engine with a scene graph, instanced rendering, and physics simulation. Getting those working took an unexpected majority of time, so the game itself had to be scoped down. A lot.

Created for the Portland Indie Game Squad Build Your Own Game Jam 2025!

Inspired by the following modifiers:

1. Floating
2. You're the Villain
3. Little Guys
4. Below
5. Number Go Up
6. Beat Em Up
7. Fishing Game
8. Playable with one hand
9. Use an engine/IDE/plugin you've never used before
10. Dissimilar Genre Fusion
    
11. A Genre You Hate (fishing games)
12. Papercraft your game
13. Multi-media art style
14. Make the game twice as hard as you think it should be
15. Incorporate wiggly text
16. All characters are named after fish

Asset Credits:

Sand Texture - txturs

Ocean Cubemap - sirsnowy7