A fishing simulator.
Like, I’m imagining a game that is packaged as a fishing game, where your character rents a cabin by a lake for a summer and your goal is to catch as many fish as possible. The presentation is all about a pastoral relaxing fishing experience.
But there’s a series of things getting in the way of your fishing.
A lakehouse is being occupied by a Band working on their next album, their loud music scares away the fish once they wake up, greatly limiting the hours in which you can fish. To solve this problem you need to visit their house and do an elaborate visual novel to either resolve their creative differences or have the band break up so they leave. (Thus increasing the window of time each day that you can fish)
The lake is polluted by a nearby factory. The eccentric billionaire who owns it is obsessed with a collectable card game, and will shut down the factory to host tournaments. By increasing your standing within the game’s community you increase the frequency of local tournaments held, thus also increasing the frequency of factory shutdowns, until finally you are able to defeat the billionaire himself in order to get him to shut down the factory for good. (Thus increasing the quantity of fish in the lake)
The lakeshore is so full of garbage that your character can only stand to be there for a short time due to the smell. The local bar owner is trying to organize a cleanup effort through a concert series, but nobody wants to play. Play this rhythm game to attract people to the concert and organize the cleanup (Thus increasing how long you can fish for).
It turns out your rod and bait sucks, there’s a fishing supply store that can sell you better gear, but you don’t have enough money. Fortunately, you can get a part-time job doing basic maintenance at the Ski Resort That Is Haunted In The Summer, play through a survival horror scenario to earn money to buy new fishing gear so you can catch more fish.
Unfortunately, your character doesn’t know anything about fish, so you get minimal points for each fish you catch, since all you can do is weigh the fish. However, a local marine biologist will gladly teach you, if only you can find her notes on local wildlife, which she lost hiking in the nearby mountains. Do some precision parkour puzzle-platforming to uncover notebook pages about different types of fish, thus making those fish worth more points!
Upstream of the lake there is an old mine, abandoned after the miners broke into some impossibly deep hell dimension, and every night horrible beasts emerge to, among other things, feast on the fish that would be coming into the lake. Do some roguelike dungeon-crawling to fight back and seal the evil creatures within, thus allowing more interesting (and high-value) fish to enter the lake.
and if our kickstarter goes well enough, We’ll actually implement a mini-game for fishing, rather than just having an automatic algorithm based on how well you’re doing with all the other systems.
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