BASS LOVER

Bass lover is a fun fishing game where you enter a 3 day fishing tournament to catch the biggest fish. The game is strategic based as opposed to action based: time passes with turns, and success is determined by weather conditions, your lure selection and sometimes a little luck.

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fishing guide

To learn how to use your boat, fish finder and tips on finding that big fish, see the manual.

with thanks

I used these works to help build Bass Lover:

Music by Eric Matyas www.soundimage.org
Weather icons by Erik Flowers, licensed under SIL OFL 1.1
Lume Lua library by rxi, licensed under MIT
Lua A* path finding library by Wesley Werner, licensed under GPL
Mechanical font by KineticPlasma Fonts, licensed under SIL Open Font License
Fishing rod image by hatalar205, licensed under Creative Commons Zero 1.0
Fish icon by by Last Dino, licensed under Creative Commons Zero 1.0
Jumping bass image by Johnny Automatic, licensed under Creative Commons Zero 1.0

Bass lover is inspired by a game called BassTour circa 1992 created by Dick Olsen.

changes

Version 2 (2018-01-14)

Added

Angler sign-in screen.
Shiny buttons and switches with tab-navigation.
New tournament lake selection screen.
You can now fish 1-day tournaments.
Game sounds and music.
A new options screen to set units of measure, sounds and music.
A detailed weather forecast screen.
A dedicated live well screen.
Mini map that shows your position.
Records player and tournament statistics.
Pretty charts - cycle them with mouse wheel or arrow keys.
Unobtrusive notifications when you land a fish.
Move your boat using the mouse, must be enabled in the options screen.

Changed

A new main menu layout.
Improved the tournament layout.
Display the cast range in the rod selection screen.
Rework the lure selection: Allow scroll with mouse wheel. Hover colors for a preview.
Allow casting while navigating the boat.
Switching between outboard and trolling motors now uses time.
Reduce the outboard cut-off time to 2 seconds.
The outboard motor uses less time the faster you go.
Land tiles now have round corners.
Fish now spawn randomly for each game.

Fixed

Crashing while moving mouse when exiting the main menu.
Crash when certain randomly generated lakes spawn fish not near any feeding zones.
Title-case angler name and allow apostrophe's and dashes.
Avoid placing the player boat on top of obstacles or other boats when launching.

license

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.