Pixel Fishies (tuxdb.com)

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Pixel Fishies is a retro inspired game for 1-4 players . Lead a school of fish to eat food, grow, and destroy!
Up to 4 players may compete on a shared screen. Each player starts by choosing a school to lead. Choose different schools to compete against each other, or the same school for co-op play. Move your leader to guide fish in your school. School fish generally follow their leader, but may seek food or attack other schools depending on their personality:

Blue fish are the best hunters. The will seek food farther away than any other school.
Green fish are the fastest. They can also swim at a steep angle.
Yellow fish are friendly. They never attack other schools and stay close to the leader.
Red fish are aggressive toward other schools. They will seek food, but are most focused on eating other fish.

When two fish of one color contact a single fish of another color, the two fish eat the other color. All but the yellow school will use this property to pair up and hunt.
Try to catch these power ups:

Size: your leader can eat other fish without a partner

Evade: no other schools can attack yours

Shield: protects from jellyfish stun or squid capture

Speed: all fish in your school move faster

Add: +5 fish to your school

Add: +10 fish to your school

Add: +20 fish to your school

Add +50 fish to your school
Some critters you may eat:

Plankton are the most common food source.

Jellyfish are a good source of food for fish that avoid their tentacles.

Starfish will release a substance which eliminates nearly all fish.
As your school eats, your food meter will fill up. When full, a new fish will join your team!

1.2 Release

Removed theSteam Inputoption from the game menu. Steam Input will be on unless you have it setForced offin the Steam client.
Removed some delays when ending a game or showing the game over message for a school.
Added an additional game mode, Plankton & Fish.
Added a gameplay option to disable AI on schools without human players.
Added the ability for players to join an active game.
Small bug fixes in game menu.

[ 2019-01-24 05:34:17 CET ] [Original Post]

Beta channel available

To enroll in beta builds, go to the game properties in the Steam client and click the BETAS tab. Select beta from the dropdown menu. No beta access code is required.

Current updates as of v1.2.212:

Removed the Steam Input option from the game menu. Steam Input will be on unless you have it set Forced off in the Steam client.
Renamed Plankton only game mode to Plankton & Fish. This mode includes player fish schools, wave fish schools, and plankton.
Added Plankton only mode. This mode has player fish schools and plankton.
Small bug fixes in game menu.

More to come!

[ 2019-01-10 06:47:20 CET ] [Original Post]

1.1 Release

Changes include:

Improved game balance
New modes of gameplay
Improved performance on higher levels

Use the Reset option in the main menu to load changes to default school options. This will improve the game balance.

Go to Gameplay->Game mode to select one of the following game modes:

School vs. School - Original gameplay of each school against the other.
Schools vs. Critters - All schools collaborate to kill waves of critters.
Plankton only - Like School vs. School but simpler. No power ups or critters except plankton.
Color balance test - The game will play all schools automatically and keep track of the winning school each round. Used for testing game balance.

[ 2019-01-02 04:23:48 CET ] [Original Post]

16 Player support!

Hi folks! PIxel Fishies was originally a 1-4 player game. While integrating Steam's input system, I thought why not support more?

Steam's maximum of sixteen controllers is now supported. There are still four teams, so if there are more than four players some will be on the same team.

Btw, if anyone actually tries this, there will be an achievement for you!
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