Catch & Release
What is Catch & Release?
First ask yourself, do you fit into this Venn diagram?
Cod! I wish It were socially acceptable to kiss fish!
I am socially awkward and do not know how to talk to women
Well Catch & Release may be the game for you!
Pull up your rubber boots, put away your fear of rejection, and go date fish woman!
Catch & Release Intro CutsceneCatch & Release is a visual novel dating simulator following a lonely fishermen in a quest for love. In a moment of weakness her tears summoned the great Goddess of the sea, Tidra, who allows you to talk to fish. The only women who will talk to her. Explore the world, meet new people, improve your social skills and go on dates. Meet the lovely ladies, discover their quirks, and every dialogue path. With more characters on the way.
Catch & Release is my senior thesis which I have been developing for over a year now, it is my passion project and journey into creating a project for my own.
It culminates everything I’ve done in my art career together, balancing 2D animation, 3D modeling, programming, script writing, and so much more.
Most importantly however is it captures what is most important to me and my art, humor.
Comedy is very important to my art. The goal I am for with what I create is to make someone laugh. That to me makes a lasting impression which makes my art memorable. And I just enjoying making somebodies day. If I can make someone 1% brighter I will have been happy with myself.
Cast your line
Cast your line
There’s plenty of fish in this sea!
Get to know them before you try to go out with them!
Tidra
All bow down, for the mighty and feisty God of the Sea approaches, it’s Tidra!
After a desperate cry for help Tidra comes to your aid in your darkest hour. Granting you the ability to talk to fish!
As their creator, She has a love for all sea life, thus her want to correct your disgusting hobby of fishing.
If she can show you the beauty of marine life, and get you a girlfriend, maybe she will kill two seagulls with one seashell.
Just don’t get on her bad side. She’s not only short, she’s short TEMPERED
Amelia
Fun fact, Did you know clownfish have stripes so they can attract one another?
Meet Amelia! You can always rely on her to be honest since there isn’t much going on behind those eyes anyways!
She may not have all her sand dollars cashed in but she has a heart of gold, and a love for it too! Any shiny object she come’s across she will find fascination in.
Amelia takes life slow, enjoying every moment, she finds the mundane exciting, if it’s shiny. Even a bottle cap might make her day.
Enid
Don’t let those spikes ward you away!
Meet Enid! Her exterior seems unapproachable and so is her personality!
Well did you expect it to be easy to talk to someone who looks like they take every precaution to not be talked to?
This Urchin is dull by nature, getting her to talk is not easy.
She may look tough but maybe all she needs is someone to listen and crack that exterior shell.
Selena
Batten down the hatches!
Here comes the ferocious Selena. Legend has it the anchor she wields belonged to the sailors who gave her that nasty scar. Her trust for humans was never the same since..
Well she seems ready to join the dating pool! Good luck sport!
She doesn’t seem to be too fond of humans, or humanity, or man kind. But there must be common ground somewhere, there MUST.
Her past time’s include eating rusty iron, scaring little fish children, and benching fishing boats.
My plans for Catch & Release is to continuously update it with new content as I explore new avenues and opportunities, as improving my programming and game development capabilities
Catch & Release is developed so I can easily add new characters using a modular system, no new coding required.
At this moment the game is not available for download however I am accepting special request downloads.
Soon I will be unveiling my blog about the creation of the game to this point, as well as my dev logs going forward of its future development.
Stay on the hook!