an interesting aside: when asked about his inspirations Ecco's developer Ed Annunziata said, "No, I never took LSD, but I did read a lot from John C. Lilly". Lilly is known for his pioneering work in the fields of animal intelligence, ketamine psychotherapy, isolation tanks, and consciousness exploration.

The name "Ecco" is a reference to Lilly's ECCO (Earth Coincidence Control Office), a supernatural/extraterrestrial base which John posited existed on the other side of the moon to coordinate all earthly "coincidences". He was also one of the first to recognize how intelligent dolphins were and became obsessed with figuring out how to communicate with them, going as far as flooding half of his house in the Carribeans to cohabitate. This is just the tip of the iceberg. I'd highly recommend his autobiography The Center of the Cyclone if any of this is intriguing, he's a fascinating guy