ecoquarium

Brief Description:

A cozy, incremental aquarium management game where players build, balance, and expand a living aquatic ecosystem. A healthy, beautiful tank generates passive revenue, allowing players to unlock rarer fauna and flora to improve their aquarium.

Connection to the Selected Collection:
The game is based on the collection: Ecology of a Balanced Aquarium. This writeup is a section of the Aquarist, a bulletin of the Singapore Aquarists' Society, which exudes the passion and interest of the aquarists towards their hobby through Fish Beauty Competitions, as well as the sharing of tips in the mentioned section to introduce others to the fishkeeping hobby.
The section Ecology of a Balanced Aquarium explains general principles of biological processes such as photosynthesis and respiration, and provides practical tips such as (i) managing light intensity and (ii) selection of fish and plants. This game attempts to simulate these biological processes and allows players to manage the aquarium by the forementioned techniques, giving them a realistic taste of the fishkeeping hobby.
Collection:
https://digitalgems.nus.edu.sg/view/232745/ecology-of-a-balanced-aquarium?offset...

Instructions on How to Play:
Plants take in CO2 and give out O2 through photosynthesis, based on light intensity.
Fish take in O2 and give out CO2 through respiration.
However, fish also need a healthy level of O2 and food to survive, and different fish species have varying requirements.
Adjust light intensity, place plants and fish to maintain a sustainable balance that keeps fish alive and the aquarium beautiful.
- Left-click a fish or plant icon to select it, then left-click inside the aquarium to place it.
- Plants can only be placed along the substrate at the bottom of the tank.
- Right-click inside the aquarium to disperse fish food.
- Use the + and − buttons to adjust the light intensity.
- Balance oxygen, carbon dioxide, food, fish, and plants to keep the aquarium healthy.
- Healthy fish increase the aquarium’s beauty, which generates money for new purchases

Team Members:
Chiew Mun Fung Ivan
Chua Wei En Zechary
Ng Yee Xiang

Gen AI Declaration:
Codex Sol 5.6 medium was used to generate .gd scripts, cover art and UI stylistic elements