Bait and Booty

A fast-paced two-player alt-controller game where one player wriggles and dodges as a frantic fish while the other uses a custom fishing-rod controller to reel them in.

Category: 2D, Double Player

Genre: Simulation, Alt Control

Date: 2025.10-Current

My Role: Game Designer, Artist

Game Summary

Bait and Booty is an alt control fishing simulation. Two players being fisherman and the fish being fished. In a limited time frame, fisherman has to find the fish and catch it using a fishing rod, while the fish has to hide and run away from the fisherman.

Game Outline

• Phase 1: Hide and seek. The two players can’t see each other’s positions: the fish must swim around to avoid being detected, while the fisherman uses the vibrations of the fishing rod to locate them. The closer the fish is, the stronger the vibration.

• Phase 2: Once the fisherman found the fish, he fish needs to shake its body as quickly as possible to break free from the hook, while the fisherman must match the opposite of the fish’s facing direction and reel in the line fast to pull the fish out.

• Win Condition: When one side’s progress bar fills up, that side wins immediately; if time runs out before either reaches full progress, the side with the higher progress wins.

• Controller:

  Fish side: a 3D-printed animatronic fish tail with an accelerometer.
  Fisherman side: A fishing rod equipped with a a rotary encoder powered gyroscope.