Acclaimed LGBTQ+ developer Robert Yang releases specific recreation about an angler catching hogs, critiquing fashionable relationship and overfishing

Acclaimed LGBTQ+ developer Robert Yang has launched one other specific recreation, this time a commentary on fishing for dates.

Rainbows Are Carnivores is a homosexual fishing and “aquaculture romance” recreation, through which a hunky fisherman fishes for nude males within the sea. Or, as Yang places it within the recreation’s accompanying weblog, it is a recreation about “utilizing your pole to catch some top quality hogs”. Hog, by the way, is angler slang for a giant fish.

Yang has launched loads of controversial video games, however is probably greatest identified for The Tearoom: a commentary on ’60s sodomy legal guidelines and online game censorship, through which males stand at urinals with weapons for penises, whereas avoiding undercover cops.

Rainbows Are Carnivores as an alternative consists of full frontal male nudity. It is a free web-based recreation on itch.io, with the “fisherman daddy” grading his catches till discovering the right mate – although it would not fairly work out the way you would possibly count on.

In addition to a commentary on modern-day relationship, the sport is a homoerotic play on male stereotypes, in addition to criticism of overfishing. As Yang places it: “There’s by no means been fewer fish within the sea (to this point).”

The sport can be impressed by French movie Stranger By The Lake (2013), which “artfully mixes intercourse and violence”, defined Yang. Right here, Yang portrays overfishing as its personal sort of violence.

“Possibly it is a commentary on relationship and romance within the app period,” stated Yang. “If we’re the ‘loads of fish within the sea’, we’re additionally utilizing expertise to overfish ourselves – industrialising romance similar to we have industrialised fishing, with diminishing returns. Courting swimming pools enclosed by relationship apps are like artificially considerable lakes the place most relationships die off by the tip of the season like farmed trout.”

Should you’ve ever tried relationship apps, you will absolutely sympathise with that sentiment.

Earlier this 12 months, Yang introduced his forthcoming sports activities RPG Tryhard. Set in New Zealand, gamers will handle an underdog rugby membership, combining administration sim components and turn-based gameplay. Presumably, there will be some intercourse too owing to Yang’s oeuvre, although Tryhard is wanting decidedly tamer than his earlier work.