I visited the aquarium there when I had a bit of downtime before a League of Legends World Championship final a couple of years ago. I think we chatted for a good half hour about everything from seahorse breeding at the Bristol aquarium to the current requirements in jellyfish tanks - Berlin has a brilliant jellyfish breeding program, by the way. He's also looking into how you might breed fish and the trade-offs between representing how real fish behave/how real aquaria work versus fun game systems.Įssentially there's a lot to be determined but the basics are in place and you have no idea how excited I was about all of this. Speaking to the lead developer, Tim Wicksteed, he's also working out things like how you evaluate whether the aquarium is a good visitor experience and how you balance that with fish wellbeing (do they have enough hiding spots, for example). by accumulating science and ecology points when people come to visit and then spending your cash to actually acquire them for the aquarium. You unlock more fish, tanks, decorations. There were also the hints of how the game will grow, with options to place some of the less attractive bits of the aquarium (like filter systems) behind the scenes, hidden from visitors using the gating mechanism of staff-only doors. Some like to nibble plants while others sift for tasty morsels from the substrate." Others will bully or eat any fish smaller than them. Some fish like to have an anemone host to hide in. "The possibilities for gameplay depth are endless once you start to consider all the wide-ranging requirements of the various aquatic lifeforms. The game build at Rezzed was early on, so the tools were quite bare-bones and placing rooms was a bit finickity BUT the core of the game was there, so I was placing tanks, populating them with fish and decorations, hiring aquarium staff, welcoming visitors and all of that good stuff.
I will try to rein it in so I can get this news post up efficiently. That is going to make writing about Megaquarium - a theme park management game from Big Pharma creator Tim Wicksteed, where you run your own aquarium - difficult because mostly I just want to tell you everything I think about fish at any given moment. FISH FISH FISH FISH! Oh goodness, I have zero chill when it comes to fish.
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