NETfishing

NETfishing is a multiplayer-first fishing game built with Godot 4.7. The current pre-alpha includes host-authoritative fishing and economy flows, freshwater and saltwater habitats, persistent player data, social features, customization, jobs, and a controller-aware interface.

The project is under active development. Interfaces, balance, content, and save migrations may continue to change before a stable release.

Requirements

• Godot 4.7.x with the GL Compatibility renderer
• Linux, Windows, or an Android development environment supported by Godot
• Bash for the repository helper scripts

Open project.godot in Godot, or start the editor from the repository root:

godot --editor --path .

Run the game directly with:

godot --path .

Validation

The validation scripts isolate Godot's settings and application-data roots. Run the fast, deterministic suite before submitting a change:

scripts/run_validations.sh quick

Additional suites and individual commands are documented in docs/TESTING.md.

Building

Export presets are maintained for Linux, Windows, and Android. Repository scripts expect the matching Godot export templates and platform toolchains to already be installed:

scripts/build_playtest.sh
scripts/build_android_debug.sh

Build outputs belong under the ignored builds/ directory. Release builds must follow the project's separate tagged-release checklist; these convenience scripts do not create or publish tags.

Project map

• main/: composition root and application orchestration
• world/: map, environment, water, and world presentation
• player/, fishing/, fish/: player and fishing domain
• network/: transport, identity, and host-authoritative services
• inventory/, items/, economy/, progression/, jobs/: game state
• save/, settings/: versioned persistence
• ui/: gameplay and menu presentation
• tests/: focused Godot validation scripts
• scripts/: build, bake, and validation entry points

See docs/ARCHITECTURE.md and world/README-WORLD-AUTHORING.md for more detail.

Authorship and assets

NETfishing is human-directed and uses a mixture of human-authored assets and software-development assistance. The project records this plainly rather than claiming that repository history can prove how each line was produced. See CREDITS.md and docs/ASSET-PROVENANCE.md.

No project-wide source license has been selected yet. Do not assume permission to redistribute the source or bundled assets beyond rights stated in their individual license records.