Ocean

**Ocean** is a professional indie game developer and artist from Germany Notably known for the creation of two visual novels, including the most popular at this day Summer's Gone and the prequel Wiab

Both games are available via Patreon SG, Patreon WIAB , Subscribestar and Steam SG Chapters are released to Patreon subscribers as they are completed, whilst Steam players purchase the game in season packages (typically 5 episodes each).

Ocean is responsible for all aspects of the game's development, including all writing, coding, and posing and rendering of art, as well as marketing and other business aspects for the music and Dmca. He has said working alone on the project allows him to have complete creative control over the game and avoids the compromises that would come from employing a team. A self-described perfectionist, he reportedly works 14 hours per day every day of the week on development in 2021, and switched by 6 focused hours and the 8 necessary hours to sleep.

At its peak Ocean Patreon page had over 1350 patrons (December 2022), making him one of the most potential growh creators working in the AVN field.

Ocean provides two week status updates on the game's development with polls on his Patreon SG ,Patreon WIAB page. He also uses Twitter to release previews.

The platform where everything is centralized, is at Discord. Where you can have all the latest information and interact with the community, and possibly ask questions directly to the developer.

## **The beginning of a career**

Ocean made its debut in 2017-2018 in the creation of visual novels initially accompanied by Regium "a real life friend", He was the artist of SG so that Ocean could focus on WIAB but after a while Regium ended up leaving the adventure at the end of 2019 without letting the public know the reasons (this could be due to the difficulties of being able to render effectively and be active with the community or even personal life problems.) after this departure Ocean had to do his best to continue his projects despite the pressure, He admitted at this time that he had suffered a burn-out to the point of depression, but despite this, he did not give up on his projects which he took very much to heart to the point of comparing them to his spiritual children. He then worked on his two stories in parallel to the point that it became sickening with abusive working hours, He spent the year 2020 - 2021 to question himself and restructure everything that it was his story or even his work schedule what makes him much more effective today arrived during 2022 early 2023 Ocean to two workstations one for Wiab and the other for SG allowing him to optimize and separated the two. He recently acquired an A6000s for his two setups. He now says he is more focused and sane after all the hardships he has been through. This will only have served to strengthen him. A message that he will then try to convey in his games "We can plan everything to have the perfect life or end, unfortunately sometimes life can be cruel and force you to make decisions that you would not have wanted take."

## **New vision of the future**

Ocean after having recovered the two projects WIAB & SG wishes to completely review the content of the game with some notable changes, he has proceeded with a total rework of WIAB after the initial release of the 6 chapters he had to do with Regium at the start the game before rework is still available on sites like F95zone where you can see the clear graphical improvement

**Noticeable change apart from the extraordinary graphical improvement**

* **Major changes in the reworked story**
* **Abandonment of the dark route which gives too much work on the normal route**
* **The story will no longer be mainly about a possible dark road where the mc could end up psycho but as Ocean specifies it will be more centered on the healing aspect of the life of a character trying to get out of his bad mental state**
* **Ocean has begun to interconnect the two SG and WIAB universes by disseminating several links that will begin to take shape in the future, with a sharp eye and a good memory, we can predict future events from its foreshadowing**
* **An excellent musical ost that perfectly accompanies the story and manages to convey the appropriate emotions to each scene.**
* **Small details in each render its present whether it is a small detail, such as a facial expression of the characters, its thought to best convey its thoughts to us indirectly and it is important to always pay attention to the possible clue hidden behind the characters**
* **An improvement still in progress on the optimization of the Ren'py game engine**

## Notes & Trivia

* To help him reduce the time between each release, he receives help from some artists to support the projects
* Ocean is a huge fan of the manga One Piece, he will come to make a lot of reference to the names of his characters, the complexity of the scenario has inspired him to flesh out his universe
* In the beginning, Ocean was a student with two part-time jobs when he started WIAB & SG
* Ocean says he loves snakes and has one of his own before moving
* Ocean had a dog named Moogle
* Origine of his original developer name
* Ocean favourite girl
* Seem like Ocean have a bigger peepee poor little SLim

## References

1. ↑ & Beyond pres. OceanLab "Another Chance" (Above & Beyond Club Edit) Official Music Video