Seashine // A roadmap to V2

The May 2023 update has fixed many technical issues in Seashine. Upgrading the game to the latest standards was clearly not a piece of cake.

If making a game like Seashine is much harder than what people usually think, maintaining such a game is also a constant fight, especially on mobile devices where hardware and regulations change so fast.

The game now runs smoothly on recent devices. Once again, I want to thank all the beta testers for helping me solve some of the remaining issues.

Now that a big technical barrier is lifted, it’s a good time to share with you a roadmap of what to expect next.… Continue reading

Seashine // The future zen mode

Image of one of the upcoming zen jellyfish.

Years of private messages, feedback and reviews made me realize how important Seashine is for so many of you to fight anxiety, panic attacks, or depression. This has been one of the major motivations for me to keep working on Seashine despite the dark times I’ve been through and the hard things I’m still facing because of my muscular dystrophy.

However, some players ask for more regarding this aspect of the game. One of the oldest requested features for Seashine is the possibility to explore the depths without a fading light forcing you to keep moving, a zen mode.

I had mixed feelings about such a game mode.… Continue reading

Why the silence and what’s next?

Early on in my game creator career, I decided not to reveal much of my private life.
But because of the long silence in the development of Seashine’s big update I have to explain a little bit who I am and what happened / what is still happening to me.

Screenshot of a code snippet

2020 has been a very bad year for so many of us.
COVID-19 wasn’t the main cause of all the mental and physical suffering I struggled with this year, it was a secondary issue.

My year started with a coronavirus unrelated tragedy which, a few weeks later, was followed with me, pale and trembling, in the emergency services of my local hospital, hoping someone would come to tell me that my wife, despite her severe blood loss, was not going to die.… Continue reading

Seashine // The Parasitic update

If you think surviving in the abyss as a jellyfish is easy then rejoice, a new kind of annoying organism has arrived.

Let me introduce you to the first parasitic creature in Seashine, the parakuka.

It will stick to you if you get too close. Once it is attached to your body it will slow you down, feed on your light and thus you’ll run out of light faster.

Jellyfish with parasites attached to it

Of course, there are easy ways to get rid of this parasite. First, you can simply touch crystals. It will shock the parasites and they will fall and stay without moving for a few seconds.
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