Electric Dream

Environment assets created for Wavekin.

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We opened a small Discord if you want to hang out, talk games, or see dev progress before anyone else.

Come say hi → discord.gg/rXbJcZJ8

We’re still deep in development, but Wavekin already has a Steam page.
If you’re browsing Steam during the Winter Sale, it’s already available to wishlist. 🤍 ❄️
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Testing our new flashback system.
With text. Without text.
Still deciding.

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Photic zone - Wikipedia The photic zone (or euphotic zone, epipelagic zone, or sunlight zone) is the uppermost layer of a body of water that receives sunlight, allowing phytoplankton to perform photosynthesis. It undergoes…

As you go deeper underwater, water absorbs light unevenly long wavelengths like red disappear first, while shorter ones like blue penetrate farther.
That’s why deep or shadowy areas appear bluish: blue light travels best underwater.

Source → Photic Zone
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photic_...

We made an octopus for our underwater metroidvania.

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-Our game ?
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First skin explorations for our creature.
got a favorite so far?

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With a quick snap of its claw, a pistol shrimp stuns prey with a "bubble bullet" that travels as fast as a car. ➡ Subscribe: https://on.natgeo.com/41A7tf0 ➡ Watch all clips of World’s Deadliest… Amazing Pistol Shrimp Stun "Gun" | World's Deadliest

Pistol shrimp create one of the most surprising sounds in the ocean:
a rapid snap of their claw generates a collapsing cavitation bubble releasing a sharp “pop”
powerful enough to stun prey.
Source:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
youtu.be/KkY_mSwboMQ?...

Before → After

We redesigned our main creature and reworked its animations to get a smoother, more natural underwater movement.

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Working on a game built around whale-like songs has side effects:
sometimes the whole team ends up singing out loud while testing the sound-based puzzles.
It helps. (Well… we think it helps.) 🐋

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UI before → UI after.
We rebuilt this menu to make it clearer, more readable, and closer to Wavekin’s visual identity.
Interface work, when it’s good, nobody notices…
when it’s wrong, everybody does. 😅

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Some coral reefs produce faint crackling and popping sounds and new research shows these soundscapes help larvae find healthy reefs. A study found that coral larvae swim toward reefs with richer acoustic signatures, even in complete darkness.

par.nsf.gov/biblio/10568...

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Work-in-progress for one of our environmental assets. We spend time refining shapes that guide the player’s eye, without looking like anything familiar.

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Underwater environments are beautiful… but they’re also tricky to make readable.
Too much detail: visual noise.
Not enough: everything feels empty.
We’re still tuning the balance between mystery, exploration, and clear navigation here’s a slice of the process

Creature lineup for Wavekin.

Designing this ecosystem took a mix of biology inspiration, weird sketches, and way too many iterations.

Here’s the cast so far, any favorite? 👇

our kowas understand that energy. 🦐💬

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Key art research for Wavekin.
We tested compositions, typography, color hierarchy, and how readable the creature is at first glance.
The final version we picked is now live on Steam
which one would you have chosen? 👇

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Bioluminescence and environmental light drive the visual evolution of deep-sea shrimp (Oplophoroidea) - Communications Biology Diversification of a mid-wavelength opsin appears to play an important role in the visual ecologies of bioluminescent shrimps with a higher diversity of opsins in taxa that migrate to shallower…

Deep-sea shrimp don’t just see in the dark they evolved eyes tuned to bioluminescent light.
A 2025 Nature Communications study shows their vision adapts to the faint glow of nearby organisms in near-total darkness.
Source → www.nature.com/articles/s42...
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Monday mechanic highlight:
singing opens certain paths in the world.
Small detail, big mood.

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Early animation vs current animation.
It’s always fun to look back and see how weird the first versions were. 😅

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Wavekin is coming soon
and the demo is already live on Steam.
Here are a few moments from the deep. 💙

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✍️ Dev update:
- Fixed a minor collision issue
- Accidentally created a new dimension 🌀
We call that “progress.”

Show us your favorite chaos moments 👇

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For science reasons, we’re pretty sure they can. 🐋🕺

Small studio energy:
half the day spent fixing one bug,
the other half arguing whether whales can dance.

(We’ll keep you posted.) 🐋

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Proof that “it’s just a placeholder” can go too far. 😅

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Avoidance, confusion, solitude.
Rising ocean noise pollution is forcing whales to move away, lose each other’s voices, and sometimes… fall silent.

Source → science.unimelb.edu.au/about/news/-...
youtu.be/bICz0hbkrt0

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We made a ray that breaks coral in our underwater metroidvania
Peaceful... but powerful. 💙

Whislist Wavekin for support —> s.team/a/3930190

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Our Kowas used to look... let's say, a little too aggressive for their size. 😅
So we gave them a softer redesign.
Now they look like they’d politely ruin your day instead. 💙

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