indie dev working on this game and learning Unreal Engine in my spare time.
These videos show a game in very early development which is not yet available for download and much of what you see will also be placeholders and may not make it into the final game. I cant action every idea or target every platform because I only have so many hours per week to work on this between family time and the day job. So I have to prioritize but please do put any ideas in the comments as i do read them all and there has been a lot of good ideas so far that have made an impact on the scope :)
I really have no firm plan for when this will release but current best guess is late 2025 for early access. The rough plan is spend this the rest of this year building out functionality then next year on worldbuilding, quest/story and NPC's ready for early access.
I feel like im late asking as i havent even bothered to search and see...but i love love what i see and am wondering if youve developed a release yet? im an android user and have a chromebook
Hiya, thanks for your interest in my game, release wont be soon I'm afraid as still lots to do and this is a currently solo indie project. There will be another progress update video soon but early access release is looking likely to be end of 2025 to early 2026 as i want to give myself a full year after core features on AI, storyline, quest and worldbuilding. which is maybe still a bit optimistic but that's the current target. next video will demo horseback, including flying (Pegasus horse) swimming and mounted combat (melee, ranged, magic) added 200+ clothing items too. Oh and building/mining/woodcutting is now sorted. Theres quite a bit new since this last video. But yea still easy a year at least away for early access sorry.
Three things, one, the game is incredible, I like it a lot and I always wanted to look for a game just as beautiful as yours, two, I would love it if you could add a little more realism to the mermaid tails since I would like it to be more fluid, and three, I already know. I was able to download
My 2 gripes are the lack of textured hair styles (ie braids, dreads, afeos, curly hair in general, and the lack of fin customizations. Now granted if this game is a PC release there will definitely be modders working to add this but for a base game it would be greay if that stuff was already added. Other than that im excited to see more out of this game!
What the hell is that sprawled stance of the poor female characters on land and why the hell does the size of her breaths not fit the rest of her body, giving her awful women's anatomy? 🙄
Different tail options as well as fish tail, like shark, octopus, dolphin tales. Also I think the tails would look better more blended into the torso to appear less blocky, but it’s just an idea :p
I've left a similar comment on the recent Loreseeker demo update. I am really looking forward to trying out this game however I thought I'd share a thought that many might consider an unpopular opinion. As an adult woman, it would be nice to have the same torso exposure for Sirens as the Male Sirens do. Genuinely, the constant need for female modesty when it comes to the female nipple is getting pretty exhausting. Maybe a parental control option might be useful here? I get it though, a large portion of the audience might be underage who have parents with traditional preferences. Wondering what you think Rus?
Please dont only make straight hair. And non of that "its more realistic stuff", theyre literally mermaids so they can be black and have afro hair or curly hair. I bet many people will appreciate this as not only people with light skin and straight hair played mermaids as a kid
Yeah !! In mermaid games they always look really basic, I wish they'd add more things like cuter hair styles and more blue skin and fantasy stuff or gills etc !!
On the one hand she has legs with rigid bones, knees, and ankles but when in mermaid form she has a snake like movement? You might want to go and watch some human mermaids swimming. When under water it does not ripple distort the environment except in specific circumstances (thermocline/halocline/air, water interface) watch some diving videos.
I have been looking at your update from the beginning of the saga and I do know it's under development. I wish you had proper equipment for developing the domotique of the personnage movement. They don't have HIPS they are glow sticks moving left and right like a stick and don't move like a human would do. And the swimming of the mermaid/merman... I so love it to see gliding on and OVER the surface of the water. The hair keeps straight when standing up in the water, staying in place. I would like to see, while standing up near the surface of the water, maybe just the head and the shoulder out, kind of do a back move then push the dash button while release the back button (aim bot locking mode), so she / he make a sudden instant jump to get on the boat/ dock/ beach while the transition get mid air back in human and make a sort of one leg split on the side way, one hand on the ground when the dash swimming move is used for get out of the water. But without using the dash mode, you keep the way it actually shifts back into human. There is no dash swim like in Ecco the Dolphin, Defended of the future. She and he doesn't swim as fast as a dolphin even on high speed swim. I notice the normal speed of swimming in the ocean is very slow, from update 1 to 6. The update 1 to 5 had proper movement of the tail for swimming in a pace mode. But in the faster mode, the high speed movement tail was barely noticeable. In the update 6, the tail is now moving way too fast for the peacefull mode and should be a tad lower on the speed movement tail on when she speed trough, but here again; the matching swimming speed of the character doesn't align with the matching swimming speed of the tail. Her / his faster speed still doesn't reach the high speed swimming of a dolphin swimming near the surface. Yet, I didn't saw any dolphin too in this game. They should be able to come to help the mermaid, merman when they are in danger in the ocean and made a "clicking" sound for attract the dolphin. Option; The male version could swim a little bit faster than a female, in my opinion, depending on some shape of tail. Could be faster with the side fin on or off. Would be nice if there was body cultural choice in the design model option, to. It would increase the speed of the personage and their agility to fight in and out of the water. Could be disadvantaged outside the water, depending on the body type? That is just an option. There is no back flip yet. There is no dash left turn while Mermaid, mermaid because they still are stick figures who don't know how to turn properly left or right. They just casually turn around like a stick figure like if it was really normal. I don't like the transition of humans to mermaids from the beach or from jumping from a dock or from a boat. Since when we jump feet first all the time in the water? I would like to see the ability of flip and flop out of the water just like in the little mermaid or just like a dolphin would do. But I did notice the strange twist she was doing while jumping out of the water in the update 5. Is it a kind of glitch for jumping out of the water just for the pleasure of doing it? I would add a backward dash so she could do a back flip while swimming away from the danger so she could be ready to attack back her aggressor. Same thing on land. I saw you running away or running backward just to shoot the enemy. I would like to see gymnastic back flip, a series of one, 2, 3 or 4 back flip maximum in the length of holding 2 button for it. But one button for just jump backward a little. Side shifting run for split second sideway should be a thing. Update 1, 2 and 3 is likely almost to compare to Valheim gameplay style where you craft and build thing... Oof... Let drop the copying style a bit and just evolve the looting. There is a train track and paved road in these 3 versions. I saw a horse without saddle in these 3 older versions. I know you are not reaching the caliber of RDR2 horse domotique also not even The Witcher 3, horse hair style domotique. (Perhap, Domotique is just a French word! I am sorry!) Plus... I notice you did exaggerate the speed of the tail in this one without upgrading the swimming speed of the personnage. 🫤 There is a lot more work to do to achieve greatness into the movement of your character. Also... Please do make careful about some facial features! I did notice something scary... 👀😳 It's pulling to look alike Cyberpunks 2077 but in aquatic version! Just be careful about that! 🫤 But the idea to implement a selection of 4 style to start with with their name, Wich the player could also modify after is a great template instead of having just one guy and one girl. Like by example, 3 guys and 4 girls template. Some will have side fins, some not. Also each personage would have their OWN stories. I don't think it's a copy and paste, many RPG games just have this choice and it's a good template. I did notice there is some "running on the wall" like Assassin's Creed would do and Prince of Persian gaming style. Grabbing the neck attack move is cool then the assassin mode from insta kill from the back, Which is also awesome but be careful with the copycat again. I'm watching maybe too many player gaming videos... I also did played TONS of time "Prince of Persia, Sand of Time" from UBISOFT, on the PS2. And... I don't want to warn you... But there is a lot that is looking like that style from shooting the bow and some of the attack. I don't know about Assassin Creed. I never played this one, but I think some players would corroborate the relative art of attacking. I am also intrigued what would be the whole story about each personage and what would be the goal of the game, if there is just mythic monster, getting look alike Mera and Aquaman, but you gave up on the way it was adding road and modern house... Not even looking medieval with train track. Update 6 have none of that. It's back to the antiquity and ancestral look... With almost the sea horse of Percy Jackson movie... You have to capture your own essence yet because I really feel that you have gotten lost in your quest building this game. You have something winner and unique, interesting that NO ONE HAS DONE YET in the matter of gaming. You need to pull more rope I do believe and get more association for developing this game or you will get tired of just trying to autocorrect what should look like the movement of the mermaid, merman under water. I would see a technology with captor on dolphin and real human in real form of fish tail just for register the movement in a computer system instead of doing it manually, so you could have the real speed of the peaceful mode, but then, these captors put on a dolphin so the computer could really register the shape and the speed of the animal, would transfer it on the mermaid/ merman so you could be able to faster properly with the proper tail movement. It would have simplified your life so much if you had this technology in the first place! Then, make the modifications for each personage of base you want to create. I think you did not yet appropriated yourself of this new game and new style of gameplay yet because you did not have find his purpose yet and a solid story. I don't want to see you fail and abandon this dream! You have something unique in your hand and you seriously need help to develop this game properly. There is a lot of mermaid/merman lover out there and I want to see a mermaid/merman with a Dolphin tale! This is my own dream... 🥰✨🧜🐬 I don't know if some people have requested you to get a Rai Manta tail or a shark tail... 😳👀🤦 I hope not! The level of difficulty there would make you raise the bar too high. 😳 You would lose your focus and main goal point. But I know how to transfer the speed of a dolphin into a swimming game... I just don't want to see your game to be the new generation of "Ecco, the defender of the future" the shark attack is so annoying! They respawn all the time when you come back and they are often in groups... Or too numerous. The game was almost directing to a range of people capable of dealing with massing attack and stress level that the game could occur while playing it. I hope you know what kind of audience you wanna reach. That's my point of vue, tho. I'm not a développer. I am just a writer and a gamer in my free time. I am getting too old for get build a Dolphin tail for my size. But playing a game like yours... I would love too but I don't know if I will ever be able to test it. I never got higher than a PlayStation 2 tier. I hope this is not too long to read! 😳🤦 I probably did forget some other points I wanted to talk about, not something annoying, but something that was missing yet. But I guess it's no more important. Oh and yeah... The drop of the plane with the parachute... Fortnite and Call of Duty style? 😂 Really? (Was on update 1, 2, 3.) Again... I am sorry for leaving such a long comment. I have so much exigence!
Hey thanks for the big writeup, there's lots of useful pieces here I can work with especially as locomotion is one of the next big update areas I'm aiming for. videos 1-5 were mainly me trying out different things and eventually settling on a type of game to make. Video 6 is a start from scratch as the core I was working with was really not built around this game which was why it had lots of parts that do not fit and it was easier to start again with a clear target in mind than try to make the old version fit. I had been holding off on the character locomotion as UnrealEngine 5.4 brings with it motion matching and I wanted to wait for the release of that to see if I can make use of that new technology before going to far into locomotion. So soon ill be getting into that and hopefully rework a lot of the locomotion. I am an indie dev though working on this evenings after my day job and don't have a team so no animators, modelers, anything so it does take me a while. The goal really initially is to get everything good enough for initial release then polish everything up as I go or if the game does ok be able to hire some help. I have my scope written out and while id love to be able to add all the awesome features everyone comes up with id never release the game if I was to try so pick my battles carefully so no merray tail or mershark type things. Right now I plan to be be working on these features for the rest of this year (clothing items, resource collection, magic, locomotion, construction) then next year will be building out NPC and AI then finally onto quest building and world design where everything should fall into place. I do still have to settle on a story by early next year before starting quest and world design which was originally the job of my wife and should have been done by now but it is yet to materialize so im gonna go give that a nudge and see if there is any progress haha. What I'm going for is high fantasy with land sea and air gameplay. so Merfolk, range of ocean creatures (including some aggressive and boss type), Pegasus, gorgon, minotaur, centaur, dryad, dragons, pirates, elementals, underwater kingdom, villages, castles, caves, dungeons. sticking to water only is too limiting which is why I want to open up cave/dungeon/castle exploration with parkour abilities and mountaintops and otherwise unreachable areas with Pegasus, but I do push the mermaid part because that's the part that makes everything special and is not found in other games and is also the feature why I'm making this game in the first place. Releasing these videos gets me some valuable feedback and also generates interest and the interest in this project from so many people does keep pushing me to do more so ill keep at it :) There are lots of features I haven't really shown in the videos too, you touched on the Assassins Creed and Prince of Persia, I do have full parkour all setup, wall running, all different climbs, dive through hole, tic tac jumps, balance beam walking, ladder and pole climbing, swinging and jumping between beams, squeeze through gaps, ledge walking and ledge shimmy. I've also just finished a big rework on the riding system, that's had a huge upgrade because it didn't work well enough with control pad but also had no combat features so that's had a big rework when being added to the new version. Questing has been totally rewritten too and now supports single and multiplayer co-op quests, main and side quests. Next video hopefully end of the month, ill show some of the new clothing items that will be available and Pegasus update I think oh and the parachute and zombies are long gone lol those were leftovers from when I had no clue what to make and just trying random things :)
I'm sorry to say this, but are we really just going to repaint the same model in different colors? Oh, sorry, there are two models - male and female. I want to hope that face customization does appear in the game, otherwise I will be very, very disappointed. Changing tattoos and repainting a game character like in a coloring book is, of course, fun, but I would like something more.
I love the concept of this game, but i have to give my feedback as char creator. Honestly i think that at this point, charater editor is basic. I need to do a little comparison. When CP2077 come out ppl claim that character editor was so deep in cusomisation, truth is 2077 added charateristics that no other editor ever let to change, like seecret parts and nails, and so on, and i judge it like a basc char editor, with new aspects. What i want to say is: this in the video is a basic character editor. A good character editor was something like BDO? (exempla). But i have to see yet a perfect character editor in a game. NOTE: Skyrim mods have shown the deep an excelent char editor could reach. NOTE 2: Skyrim mods have shown what players dream, but no dev take note.
Hi Thanks, for the suggestions, and totally agree id love to get things to where the skyrim mods are at and BDO looks real nice, i have since tweaked the design of the char creator a little to polish it up a bit, there were also a few bugs that have now been fixed too. The addition of some blendshapes/morphtargets even just for the face to alter some features there maybe would be a nice addition, ill add this to the list thanks. While id love to go all out and add the works in reality if i did this on an indy project id likely never get to building out the rest of the game. But some morph targets for the face and extending the options for the tail and a good polish up during early access hopefully will cover the remaining essentials for Char Creator :)
Gross looking asset flip. The sound effects on item equip doesn't make it seem more real but far less. If this is your passion then good luck but right now it looks and sounds horrible. And I would bet money it won't get finished or become anything other than a collection of assets smashed together.
Just some feedback as I’m very hopeful about this game!! -Add more tail designs like different fin shapes/lengths/scale pattern etc. There are loads of different aesthetics for sirens -For graphics, more clarity and HDR toning would create a perfect underwater atmosphere. Add fogginess and bloom/glow to the character so they stand out Perhaps a faint green/blue filter for the game -The textures in the character menu could definitely be sharper and a little more realistic [especially the skin details] Though I do understand this is a small development team so it’s not a huge issue. -Add underwater landscapes like Atlantis and lost cities to explore. That would definitely spice up the exploration! Instead of just endless coral reefs -Animations for climbing onto rocks from the shore when in mermaid form/or just peering over [ik that’s very Disney mermaid] xD But adding more fluid animations when it comes to moving around and changing form/interacting with the world around us - it helps to make it a lot more fun! Can’t wait to see how this game turns out, best of luck! xox
I hope the game is underwater focused. From a mermaid game I'd expect at least 70% of the game happening underwater Also, I actually really love the effect for turning into a mermaid/human! It's one of those things were I think it doesn't need to be complicated, the effect is really charming as it is :)
Can this also be accesed on mobile once this game realeses?Since i dont have a device which can only acess this game once it releases ,so i hope mobile players can try out this game.
Wow I would love a game like this! Would prefer it without the need to go online. Lagging swimming is no fun. And a "friendly" mode would be cool, without attacks 😊 which Platform will provide the game?
Awesome preview! For the outfits on your mermaid underwater, I would definitely love seeing the exact same version on the mermaid as it was on the human, with the skirt part drifting about you, etc. Maybe there could be toggle options to keep it like it was showcased or an option to incorporate the above idea. Maybe different versions of the gear thats with the full length or just the top portion. Keep up the amazing work!
