Hi everyone!
Fishbowl’s trailer was released alongside our demo and we'd love to take you through it! But before that, if any of you played our demo, please take a moment to leave us a review. It would help us a LOT in continuing to make Fishbowl visible to other players on Steam.
The first person you meet in the trailer is Iris. She is Alo’s manager at work and Alo directly reports to her. You will have many conversations with her about work and also life.
Iris loves film making and she is also a DIY queen! We’ve made sure to have her home reflect that. There are a lot of objects that Iris has made herself. This sewing machine is inspired from the Usha sewing machines which were really popular in India at one time.
We then show you a bunch of self care and home care tasks that Alo does at home. The game starts off with the home being pretty barebones and as time goes by new activities and a few areas get unlocked. The home becomes more ‘alive’ over time.
The thing with all the care tasks in Fishbowl is that you can do as much or as little as you are able and you will get an outcome as per your choices and decisions.
Next up is our job that we do from home. Alo is a video editor and video editing in Fishbowl is a colour/symbol matching game. You are partnered with different work colleagues and they have their own abilities and challenges that they bring along to the video editing game!
This is Bulbul who seems to have messed up a previous file. Alo is going to try her best to help fix it.
Do your best Alo and Bulbul! 💜
Bulbul is an intern who has also moved to this new city like Alo. She lives in a teeny tiny studio apartment where the kitchen, hall, bedroom are basically just one room, AND with six other roommates! She’s figuring out how to cook so it's cheaper than ordering in and we are excited for you to see Bulbul’s story unfold in Fishbowl.
We then have Menguzonuo whom we all know and love! She has been working here for a long time. She is a pro at video editing and usually wants to finish work quickly!
A quick note on what we are actually editing! We work for this big social media influencer and content creator named Sitara and we are basically editing their vlogs and films and all such.
This is Alo’s mum! She runs Alo’s grandmum’s tea shop. As you know, Alo’s grandmum, Jaja passed away a little while back. And here, Alo’s Mum is thinking of giving away all her things. There are many such crucial choices in our game, which will create big and small changes in the story that you experience, as well as in the endings.
Alo ends up with all these packages containing things which belonged to her grandma. Jaja preserved these sentimental objects over the years. You now need to unpack them one at a time and progress in the story of the game.
This is Zuari, Alo’s childhood bestie who is a bit concerned about how Alo will go through all these packages.
These are our unpacking puzzles! When you interact with a box, an unpacking puzzle opens up. It is full of objects that feel nostalgic and sentimental. Also, some you can’t really make much sense of. To solve the puzzle, you free up the object at the bottom. So move things around and try to ‘get’ the special object underneath.
This is our journal! All the objects in the boxes will go into Alo’s journal which will tell you a little bit about them. The object that you uncovered might give you a memory. How you get these memories is a bit of a secret and we’d love for you to play the demo to know more about it.
This scene is an example of one such memory that Alo has received from an old object, a beloved record player. Memories sometimes unlock an activity. This record player lets you play tunes from the past whenever you’d like!
Along with memories Fishbowl also has this dream world of sorts which tells you more about the past as well as Alo’s inner thoughts. We have created this area with a lot of care and it has little details that will tell you more about the story if you are paying attention and observing with a keen eye.
Our trailer ends with smol Alo and her friends on the terrace looking at the evening sky filled with stars.
Hope you enjoy playing the demo and meeting some of these characters, experiencing some of these events. A reminder, if you’ve already played it, do leave us a review here and share with us what you thought of it!
Love,
Rhea & Prateek
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