One Cast Deeper: out of the blue

Our hero and his diver are now hand-drawn paper cut-outs moving through the 3D ocean, and the reef snapper fights back on the line as one too. Small paper creatures drift through the water around them: turtles, rays, shoals, a moray at home in the rocks.

Swim far enough east from the reef and the open sea begins. A kelp forest grows on a plateau about 27 m down, and past its edge, on the sand at 60 m, an old wreck keeps a treasure chest in its hold. You will want a better suit for that one.

The chart has a third map now: the Bottomless Blue Hole. Reef sharks circle its rim, stalactites hang in the drowned dark, and at 200 m the water turns pale and milky. Below that the lamp is all you have, and something long and dark crosses through its beam.

One Cast Deeper is still a working title, and the game is still in development.