To research the fish farm gameplay, I studied the notorious aquaculture masterpiece "Manual For Rainbow Trout Production On The Family-Owned Farm" by George W. Klontz written in 1991.

again, this is a gay porn game about fishing naked men from the lake:

I was struck by the sheer amount of statistics and lookup tables. The optimal water temperature for a trout, how much oxygen it needs, how much space... it's like fish are made of numbers.

In the game I carefully pace the introduction of these numbers. At first there's no numbers or text because it's all about the fantasy of fishing as "natural" or "wild" intuition and skill. But then after your third catch, a vague blinking button inexplicably appears at the bottom of the screen.

Pushing that button suddenly reveals a dense aquaculture dashboard with a dozen unexplained water quality and fish feed factors. Paolo Pedercini’s admirable "no exposed numbers" game design methodology anti-inspired me to over-expose these numbers. I sought an indecent exposure / mental math flood, designed to overwhelm and obliterate your prior romantic notions of the fishing system.

The mythical homosocial romance of wilderness fishing clashes with the stark industrial reality of fish farming … We pair this romance with abundance: "there's plenty of fish in the sea" -- but somehow it's never reassuring, is it?
A 2024 UN report notes only 62.3% of marine fisheries were biologically sustainable in 2021. North Sea countries lowered 2026 cod catch quotas by -44% (ignoring scientists' advice for a zero-catch quota for cod to truly recover). Fish stocks will decline further with continued overfishing and climate change. Aquaculture will intensify, stressing water systems and dwindling freshwater. There's never been fewer fish in the sea (so far).

in case it's not clear, I'm reading about the gay porn game where you're a fisherman daddy catching naked sexymen in the river, like with a fishing pole

incidentally I keep forgetting the name of the lesbian taxi driver game and duck duck go is unusable these days but it took me to a couple interesting games:

1. lesbian road trip RPG, by ladykiller in a bind creators https://loveconquersallgames.itch.io/getinthecarloser
I like that there's a boxer lesbian in the group.

2. gay car masturbation game, as in you literally stroke cars to orgasm, and the cars are gay. I have a lot of respect for this game because unlike certain filthy casuals (*cof* dateEverything *cof*) you have sex with an actual fucking car, pun intended, not with an anthro conventionally attractive boy representing "car".
https://radiatoryang.itch.io/stick-shift

@acdw this will require a whole webpage to do properly but right off the cuff:

• bioshifter
• katalepsis
• search & rescue
• unity: hello world; contains a cool trick to boost suspension-of-disbelief
• no gods no masters which is hdg; i am indifferent about the kink and still love it
• sunspot
• exemplary