Fishoid

About Fishoid

Turn your screen into a little underwater world. Choose a theme, customize your aquarium, and leave it running while you work, read or relax.

In the maker’s words

I have built a cosy fish tank simulation you can leave on a large screen and watch from time to time. I like pixel art but didn’t want to be religious about it, so I think of it as pixel art adjacent. This summer, down with the flu, I started a small experiment. It ended up taking about 50-70 hours of my time, iterating over several months. There is a 24-inch display in my kitchen powered by a used Lenovo mini PC (previously it was a RPi, but I had to upgrade to get a better GPU). I used it to show a rotation of my home photos, but now I’ve switched it to show this fish tank. No prior game dev experience, but years of backend development and all the time spent reading indie dev blogs (honourable mentions Factorio and Banished) helped. I used LLMs to give me a hand. It rather felt like playing a game, maybe like Factorio a bit, switching from system design to art direction and back and le…

Where people found it

• Hacker NewsShow HN: Fishoid: an ambient fish tank for your screen5 points5 comments8 hours ago