I'm thrilled to let you know that I'm making great progress on the next major update, "Wizard & Flags" and I expect it to be ready by late October or early November.

I want to say a huge thank you for all the supportive comments and messages—your encouragement really means the world to me, and I'm grateful for your trust.


This upcoming update brings a significant change that will change the world entirely!! Instead of navigating one big world (when sailing), it's now split into several distinct areas. Each of these areas has specific difficulty levels and themes, helping both new players and veterans to understand the challenge level and seek out adventures at their own pace.

This is still a bit rough, but here's a sneak peek at what's coming with the new world map:

• Each new area offers a navigable map similar in style to the old world, but with varying sizes—some smaller, some larger.
  
• The map will feature random challenges that change daily to keep things exciting.
  
• As you unlock new areas, you'll discover even more regions and challenges.
  
• You'll be able to fast-travel between any areas you've unlocked.

The home area will be a more relaxed environment, featuring fewer enemies and an easy difficulty setting. After the fortress update, you might encounter stronger enemies here if you’ve upgraded to a better island.

Rest assured, the update will work with your existing save files. While you won't lose any progress, you'll need to rediscover some areas, and a few islands might be locked until you've completed certain challenges. If you've saved your game outside of the home area, you'll respawn just outside your home island to avoid awkward situations like being trapped inside an iceberg.

I know many of you have asked for a bigger world. Some players want the game to be more difficult, and others want it to be easier. I think this update will make Seablip a little better on all those requests. The game still needs a lot of balancing, but I think this is one step in the right direction.

Thanks once again for your ongoing support and enthusiasm! I'm going back to developing.

Best,
Jardar

Ahoy!

As promised, here's the official Roadmap for Seablip's journey to EA. This outlines the key milestones I focus on to bring Seablip to version 1.0. While you won't get every detail, I hope you get a sense of what's to come.

Between major updates, there will be smaller updates. I will also spend a lot of extra time after each major update to focus on bug fixing.

• Customizable flags
  
• Wizards with spells
  
• Goblins

"Slow Spell"

"Magic Magnet Spell"

• Build and upgrade a fortress on your island to defend against enemy raids.
  
• Explore the world with outposts controlled by Redcoats, Bluecoats, and Octopus.
  
• Discover more islands and embark on randomized quests like rescue missions, destruction missions, and exploration.

Redcoat Outpost WIP

• Fight on islands using WASD movement, primarily against pirate enemies.
  
• Captain Battle (instead of a ship battle, you can sometimes choose to do a "Captain Battle". Your crew and enemy crew are gathered around in a "circle" to see which captain is the best)
  
• Enjoy a special fishing mini-game on the world map.
  
• Experience a revamped fishing and reward system, + fixing Whalgrim's fish quest.

• This is overdue! I know I promised to make the game better for a controller than it is today. I apologize for the delay in controller support. While it's not currently optimized, I'm committed to making Seablip controller-friendly. Since I lost a lot of development time as explained in the last community post, I had to make hard decisions on my priorities making the Wizard update priority number one. Right now I can't say where on the Roadmap this step is added. I don't want to disappoint you, but rest assured that I won't stop working on Seablip before it offers decent controller support too!

• Island Economy
  
• Trading wares with different islands and bigger cities is an option to earn coins.
  
• Merchant sail routes will be more visible. (Giving you the option to do better trade, or dear for some merchant raiding)
  
• Farming and food update.

• Finish the main quest this includes some side quests connected to the main quest.
  
• This also includes a couple of boss fights.
  
• Localization.

- Jardar