Description
About the game
Legado is a handmade AR fishing game about the butterfly nets of Lake Pátzcuaro, Mexico. Players read the ripples on the water to tell species apart, cast their net where they tap, and learn to let the achoque, an endangered amphibian found only in this lake, swim away.
Every Day of the Dead, the “Night of Souls” scene opens free for everyone: candlelit canoes heading to Janitzio island and marigolds to gather for an ofrenda.
History
From a student playground to a full game
Gustavo Isaac López Núñez was born in Morelia and grew up in Pátzcuaro, Michoacán, where Purépecha fishermen have fished with butterfly-shaped nets for centuries. In 2025, that image became a small AR playground that won Apple’s Swift Student Challenge.
The full version keeps the original illustrations and music, and adds a complete game: species with their own behavior, streaks, daily tasks, a logbook with sourced pages about the lake, and a Day of the Dead scene. Lake Pátzcuaro has lost about a quarter of its volume in recent decades; Legado exists so more people know the lake and its tradition.
Features
Key features
- Short 45-second fishing runs in augmented reality, with streaks that reward reading the water.
- Four species told apart by their ripples, including the achoque, which players must let go.
- Daily tasks that unlock sourced pages about Lake Pátzcuaro and the people protecting it.
- “Night of Souls”: a Day of the Dead scene, free for everyone from October 25 to November 4.
- Original illustrations, music and code. Fully localized in Spanish and English.
Images
Screenshots
Clean in-game captures. Click to download at full resolution. App Store screenshots in English and Spanish (iPhone and iPad) are in the .zip.
Art
Key art and icon
Credits
Made by one person
Design, illustration, music and development: Gustavo Isaac López Núñez. Published by HiveKit. All images on this page may be used for editorial coverage of Legado.
Questions, interviews or review codes: isaac.developertech@gmail.com