It kinda relates to that earlier thread in here about how games might be training us to think, thinking about it.

However, I was very surprised at the narrative that emerged. After she got through fishing some of the medium and big fish, the ocean suddenly became sadder and sadder. I was definitely not expecting that level of realistic depletion in a cute and fun game like this.

I don’t know if you intended this originally, but we could not finish the game because it was just too sad – the only options were catching the tiny defenseless little blue fish, or using a bomb lure (really?) on the poor shark that kept to themselves and didn’t even kill anyone. We stopped at this point.

Curious how a fun game also brought a powerful message with it.

Of course, not everyone picks up on it and some people just like blowing stuff up.

So the system alone evokes a response, but the impact is highly variable. This ties into a continuing fascination mine: Setting expectations for an experience and then telling people what they just experienced dramatically improves the reliability of how someone interprets an experience. Propaganda is an essential art.

take care
Danc.

It’s interesting to have to avoid the little fish with the big lures, which is less “obvious” than a need to avoid the big fish with the little lures. Also, I wasn’t able to fish up the sharks with any lures, including the bird, but the look of the last rod does seem to imply it’s able to pull them up…

I don’t have a new monitor yet for my desktop, and my new laptop is wrapped up under the tree. I should, supposedly, be able to play Ultima Online on this system though. UO Fishing, here I come!

There should be a shotgun in Fishing Girl. That’s how Denny Crane does it!

Denny Crane.