A Story About Fishies!

These fish designs represent a pretty frustrating period for me in terms of my career. I'd just left my last job, and was excited about finding a new and interesting opportunity and I was approached by a friend I'd worked with before that was creating a new startup. They were working on this cool proprietary 3D engine that would run well on the web. This was back before that was trivial haha.

Anyway, just to appease investors though, we had to put out this quick fish game, a couple months max, then on to the cool groundbreaking epic project!

That fish game ended up lasting more than 2 YEARS! Then once released promptly failed miserably as the whole Facebook fish game craze had long ended.

ANYWAY! I'll set aside my bitter artist hat and talk about these designs, which were the first concepts for the fish in the game. I was tasked with figuring out the style of the fish. I wanted to create a range from fairly realistic to cartoony super cute.

In the end we ended up going with something a bit inbetween.

This concludes this episode of tales from the social gaming industry. If you actually read this post you're awesome! Hopefully you found some entertainment value in it. Thanks for looking!