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Two months ago we published Fat Fish, the Flash version. Originally the game was developed with the Fenix compiler (similar to DIV2 Game Studio) in the year 2004 to participate in the “Summer 2004” contest organized by the now gone DivNet, which consisted in creating a game with a summer theme. Fat Fish got the first place in that contest and won the Golden Umbrella!

Gold Umbrella

In this game you control a species of killer piranha with an insatiable stomach, ready to devour everything that falls into the sea… in this case: the “almost-zombies”. Originally, the “almost-zombies” were happy bathers who threw themselves into the sea, but in order to make the game less violent and avoid harming the sensibility of some people, we decided to call the bathers “almost-zombies” (nobody will get mad or offended for killing a almost-zombie, right?) but we left them with the same appearance… then finally we added a zombie look by giving the bathers a greener face, scars, etc. (just in case).

Almost-Zombies

But the mini-game doesn’t end there, the main character feels the natural need to make poo-poo like any other animal after eating, luckily for him, he counts with his loyal friend… a toilet in the bottom of the sea! As you go killing almost-zombies, our fat fish will fill up and will gradually lose his ability/speed, and to recover it, you will have to use the toilet which will dedicate you from time to time some little words…

Kill them all!!

The idea to add the toilet to the game occurred newly during the game’s development, when the bathers were already falling and the fish could kill them… something else was missing to add our signature to the game, and while Victor was “downloading himself” in the bathroom, the little light bulb lit, and with farts as trumpets of victory he thought out to add the toilet ^_^

We love this guy

The game has 4 mini-games:
- A solitaire Killer: You have to kill more “almost-zombies” than the other fish.
- Fish are hungry: Same objective, but the other fish can kill you.
- Kill before they escape: You have to kill “almost-zombies” before they arrive to the bottom.
- Simon says… Kill him!: The toilet will tell you who you have to kill.

In-game

To finish this post, we must to add that we didn’t stay satisfied with the final result, we betrayed a lot the original idea of the game; for starters, the graphics of this flash version look very polished compared to the original version which was somewhat more bizarre/grotesque and the almost-zombies ended up being real zombies… the “feeling” of the game just isn’t the same… anyway. We have a lot more to improve if we decide to make a sequel.

Play Fat Fish here!

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