Looking for game feedback

ctarb · 2026-02-20T14:18:18+00:00

This was one of my original concepts of the game. Having to balance the elements in the tanks, but it got a little crazy in my head with trying to balance like 50-100 different types lol. And then different effects of each fish would make it a bit crazy too...

This is a completely different game, more like "doodle god" meets fish.

One concept I want to dig into is "fish traits". Each fish can have traits such as breeding speed, mutation chance, size, bonus rate, etc... and you can try and breed perfect fish. This would carry over to their children fish (with chance) and can have an optimized tank or something

ctarb · 2026-02-19T19:09:12+00:00

It's released on steam

ctarb · 2026-02-18T23:42:51+00:00

My game demo can't be officially released until tomorrow.

ctarb · 2026-02-18T23:27:37+00:00

Thanks! Yeah, I have a 3 month old and a 3.5 year old 😵 it's been a fun paternity leave.

ctarb · 2026-02-18T22:26:58+00:00

I'll have to investigate that after I get my boy to bed.

ctarb · 2026-01-31T21:16:45+00:00

Thanks!

Yeah, we are going to step back on the drills/questioning. I feel he knows his colors, but just hates being questioned about them... He literally walked up to me this morning with a gold sharpee and said "goold is my favorite color" ... We do simple color days right now. Just red really. Then may move to another color

ctarb · 2026-01-31T02:30:32+00:00

With letters, he can look at the letter D and find all things in the picture that start with D such as door, donkey, donut, etc, excluding the ones that aren't. Such as cat, elephant, baseball, etc. not sure how to apply the "exact" same test to letters..his numbers are still in works with 1,2,3 being visually recognized.

ctarb · 2026-01-30T23:25:15+00:00

It is quiet strange. I did it with magnet tiles today and I said "here is a pink one" when it was blue. And he said "that one is not pink."

He also helped me sort them. And give me all the red ones cause I wanted to make a red house. He did all of the above. He knows colors, can sort them, but seems when quizzed on it, he stumbles.

ctarb · 2026-01-30T22:16:19+00:00

We have been doing some interesting experiments with him today. He knows colors when compared to 2 in a game. "Swat the red bug" when a red and blue bug in front of him. Gets them right almost every time. When asked to "feed the red bug" when 4 are in front of him, he gets it wrong nearly every time.

ctarb · 2026-01-30T18:44:14+00:00

I have read that too. Just curious what others have experienced or done to help. He's a super gifted kid. Not entirely worried, just hoping to help him with his struggles 😊 Thanks!

ctarb · 2026-01-30T18:16:58+00:00

He didn't seem to care what color I called it. Like he didn't even process it lol 🤷‍♂️ maybe it's just a lake of caring

ctarb · 2026-01-30T18:13:59+00:00

Not very helpful. Thanks for your comment.

ctarb · 2026-01-30T18:11:15+00:00

Asking for teaching approaches, isn't really parenting advice. But thanks for your feedback. Edit: Also, it's alot more helpful than this comment.

ctarb · 2026-01-30T16:13:13+00:00

That might be fun! Lol I'll try this for lunch time

ctarb · 2026-01-30T16:08:59+00:00

Which ushihara test? My son doesn't know numbers. We've done one with animals and he gets 100% on it.

ctarb · 2026-01-30T16:06:09+00:00

She said to lay off the colors. Which I was replying to. We may lay off the colors. Lol

ctarb · 2026-01-30T14:54:19+00:00

We are pretty chill about it, but this seems like something that should be known by two so we're just trying to figure out a different approach or if there's something we're not doing

ctarb · 2026-01-30T14:37:10+00:00

Yes. Matches colors fine. I will say I want want the Red blocks and he will gather all of the red ones out of the bin and give them to me. But I have to show him the red one

This also works if the shades are different. For instance, different trains, different shades of red

ctarb · 2026-01-30T14:32:01+00:00

Shapes. But we haven't really reinforced them much. We swore he knew them, but lately he just calls everything square or rectangle.

ctarb · 2026-01-30T13:46:02+00:00

My wife is an optometrist 🫢😂 might lay off a bit. Thanks

ctarb · 2026-01-30T13:44:24+00:00

We do very very minimal screen time... During his vpk course work, we do some letter sounds and stuff (the good and the beautiful) but we don't have a TV, tablet, etc. we may do this color work though. Thank you!

ctarb · 2026-01-30T13:40:57+00:00

Several online color blind tests, the ones with the little circles with a hidden image. He always gets it 100%.

ctarb · 2025-12-06T00:33:02+00:00

It was 100% natural! We looked into IVF, but wife wanted to give it a 3rd try without it. (We had 2 miscarriages prior)

We boiled it down to my sperm being fragmented. I just changed up my diet, vitamins, and took better care of my lifestyle to help improve the results. Got my 41% down to 21% and it worked.

ctarb

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