About

Your mum has left you to fish for the village while she goes away for a few days to visit family, but the local cats catch wind of your fishing and come to steal your fish!

Fend off increasing large waves of cats by taking back your fish as they steal them or by catching so many they can't keep up with supply!

My submission for the Github Game Off Game Jam 2025, created from November 5th to November 30th.

Public Github repo - https://github.com/AshleySetter/Hook-Line-and_Whisker-game-off-2025 - Art assets have been removed from the git history to adhere to redistribution licensing on assets

Controls

Movement - WASD
Interact - E
Reel in fish - R
Pause / Close window - Esc

Credits

Game design and programming by Curious Blobfish.

No generative AI was used in the creation of any of the assets for this game, all art was made by talented humans and used in accordance with thier licensing or myself (with a little help from my wife) using Resprite. 

Thanks to my wife for her playtesting feedback, and to my work colleages Henry and Ben for thier ideas in discussions about the game design over lunch breaks at work.

Thanks to these lovely kitties for lending thier appearances to the game. Jinx, Tux, Moxie, Nala, Stripy and Onyx. 

Leaderboard Provider: https://danqzq.itch.io/leaderboard-creator

Visuals:
Cats were edited by myself from this base cat art: https://ikoiku.itch.io/16-x-16-pixel-art-character-cat
Fish: https://pixelgnome.itch.io/fish
Village and Forest assets: https://zedpxl.itch.io/
Player Character, farm animals and some tree assets: https://emanuelledev.itch.io/farm-rpg
Coins: https://laredgames.itch.io/gems-coins-free
UI components used / adapted from: https://toffeecraft.itch.io/cat-user-interface

Sound (All Creative Commons licenesed):
Music: https://stefangrossmann.bandcamp.com/track/peaceful-village
Birdsong - environmental sound: https://freesound.org/people/squashy555/sounds/573080/
Wheat in the wind - environmental sound: https://freesound.org/people/bdvictor/sounds/240914/
Assorted Sound Effects created with: https://sfbgames.itch.io/chiptone
Fish splashing sounds: https://freesound.org/people/paulprit