Fishing minigame: keep the fish inside the green bar

About this game

Developer: ConcernedApe · Publisher: ConcernedApe · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Pixel art · Screen type: HUD & Gameplay UI

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What to study

Stardew Valley's fishing is a complete minigame carried by one vertical bar. The tall ruler beside the angler holds everything the player needs: a green catch bar that rises while the button is held and falls when it is released, the fish icon that darts up and down inside the track and must be kept inside the green, and a yellow progress column at the bar's right edge that fills while the fish stays caught and drains while it escapes. A treasure-chest icon hovers above the catch bar in this frame, a bonus that can be collected mid-fight if the player can spare the control. There are no numbers, no timer text and no instructions: position is the whole language, and the bar is styled as a piece of fishing tackle, reel graphic at its foot, so the one piece of overt game UI in the scene still belongs to the fiction. Frame at about 2:42 in the Stardew Valley Trailer 1080p (Steam), during the Night Market beach scene.

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

detail-panel

Components

Parts on screen.

Progress bar

Screen inventory

• a tall, narrow vertical bar floating beside the angler, framed like a wooden ruler with a reel graphic at its foot
• the green catch bar partway up the track, with the small fish icon sitting inside it
• a red treasure-chest icon waiting above the catch bar, the bonus the player can chase without losing the fish
• a yellow progress column running up the right edge of the bar, nearly full
• the angler's bobber in the water below, line running up to the rod in her hands
• two fellow villagers fishing the same shoreline at the right, under the Night Market beach lights

Top 3 colors

#0103a7 38%#2f2f9e 21%#100992 16%

Top three palette colors by share. The remaining colors make up the rest.

Source and credit

© ConcernedApe, Stardew Valley screenshot: Stardew Valley Trailer 1080p (Steam), shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by ConcernedApe.

Source tier 2 (publisher-released) · screenshot: Steam store page · Steam page

Source details

Fetched 2026-10-20. verified 2026-10-20: frame extracted from the official Stardew Valley Trailer 1080p (Steam) and inspected visually at full resolution; genuine fishing minigame bar confirmed settled (green catch bar, fish icon, treasure-chest icon and yellow progress column all sharp and legible); no trailer text overlays the frame

no published policy found (checked 2026-10-20); fair-use study use, takedown honored within 48h, note: no ConcernedApe fan-content/video policy was located during this prep and a dedicated policy search was not run in this phase; flagged in review-notes.md for the ingest gate

Rights holders: see Copyright & takedown.