Primary Role: Producer

Secondary Roles: Wed Designer, Video Editor, Scrum Master, Pitch Writer

The Team

Elijah Dixson, Producer

Charles Carucci, Lead Designer

Paul Klimaszewski, Lead Designer

Cole Kirkpatrick, Lead Artist

Nicholas Kinteris, Artist

Sean Walsh, Artist

Peter Hansen, Sound Artist

Gabriel Pereyra, Lead Programmer

Duncan Carroll, Programmer

Lucas Spiker, Programmer

Zachary Taylor, Programmer

About The Game

Hyper Neon Fishing is a fast paced beat'em up aquatic creature collection and aquarium simulator game. Take control of a diving bird equipped with a disco ball helmet! Collect exotic aquatic creatures for your aquarium! Save the ocean from Dr. Monochrome!

Download from Itch.io

Development Context

Everyone on the team is a college student. Most of us attend Champlain College and are part of their fantastic game development program. During our Game Production 2 class, we were tasked with coming up with 50 different game ideas on the spot. One idea that really excited us was Hyper Neon Fishing—a game where the player uses funky disco neon dance moves to attract fish. We prototyped a few other concepts, but both our QA testing and personal interest led us to focus on Hyper Neon Fishing.

You can find details of our development process below or check out the website I designed. https://www.hyperneonfishing.com.

Development History

Hyper Neon Fishing

Oct 14, 2017

Itch.io - Let's Play - Twitter Publicity

Oct 14, 2017

Itch.io release! Someone did a let's play! and Itch.io tweeted about the game! Moments like these remind me why I love making things!

Oct 14, 2017

Apr 27, 2017

The Hyper Before the Storm

Apr 27, 2017

Almost everything is in place for us to be ready to attend GameFest RPi 2017. A link to the compitition details can be found here: http://gamefest.rpi.edu. In preparation for the compitition we prepare a trailer show casing our game!

Apr 27, 2017

Apr 14, 2017

Week 10: ALPHA

Apr 14, 2017

While not all the features we wanted made it into the Alpha Build, our QA testers still greatly enjoyed our game and gave us very valuable feedback on how we could continue to improve it.

Apr 14, 2017

Mar 30, 2017

Week 8: PRE-ALPHA Gameplay Footage

Mar 30, 2017

Alpha was just 2 weeks away at this point. We still had a lot to do, but we managed to find time to put together a gameplay video for Accepted Students Day at Champlain College.

Mar 30, 2017

Feb 21, 2017

Week Five: Studio Pitch

Feb 21, 2017

In Just 5 Weeks we went from having only a title and a vague idea to the presentation below. We survived the infamous cuts that happen at Champlain College, and later that week we convinced 6 new awesome people to join the Hyper Neon Fishing Team.

Feb 21, 2017

Jan 22, 2017

Initial Game Idea: Hyper Neon Fishing

Jan 22, 2017

A game that takes place across various landscapes like ruins or ancient wilderness, where you take the role of a small creature that harnesses the power of shapeshifting into other mythical beasts to overcome enemies and puzzles.

Jan 22, 2017