No, wait – it’s at least a C+!

[rynling]

Fishing in Video Games
https://ko-fi.com/s/a5f96086a1

This is a free comic zine about fishing in video games. It’s 28 pages long, fun and easy to read, and very insightful and sweet. I’m bookmarking it because I’d like to create something like this myself one day – maybe trees in video games? – but also because I just wanted to share. What an absolute ray of sunshine.

Anyway, something I think everyone should know about me is that it took me at least four months to understand the sea bass pun in Animal Crossing. In my defense, it was a pandemic.

Comments

[rionaleonhart]

This was very charming! Thank you for the recommendation.

[rynling]

I'm so happy you read it!! Huzzah 🐟🐟🐟

[rionaleonhart]

I forgot to ask in my original comment, but I'd be interested to know your thoughts on trees in videogames!

[rynling]

Thank you for asking! I would also like to know my thoughts on video game trees tbh.

The direction I think I might be going involves how trees are often used as barriers around the edges of a map. I’m going to connect this sense of “don’t go there” with (mostly North American) views of forests as being dangerous. Then I’m going to talk about the East Asian concept of “forest bathing” as being necessary for human health, and how virtual trees often serve as replacements for their real-life signifiers as the world’s population has become overwhelmingly urban during the past two decades.

I was recently re-reading Bill Bryson’s A Walk in the Woods, and I was like, “Damn, I’ve had these same experiences... but only in video games.” I thought that might be interesting to talk about, if only in the form of a twelve(ish) page/panel comic.