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Kinsland campaign · prototype build 0.1 · Windows 10 / 11, 64-bit · plays offline

Dr James J Dillon pays respect to the Traditional Owners and Custodians of the site of creative practice, Meanjin and the surrounding northern coast areas, which include the Jagera, Turrbul, Kabi Kabi and Quandamooka peoples, and their Elders.

Into the Bay

Moreton Bay · centuries after the seas rose

The Seablight comes in on every tide.

The Bayside Kinslanders live on what the drowned coast left them: stilt towns, salvage, nets and stockies, and Barri - a living green wall grown from the sea - standing between the Bay and the open water.

Out past the wall, the Seablight takes reef, beast and person alike. And lately it has been getting closer. Nests swell in the shallows. Cain Toads come up the sand in numbers nobody remembers. Something walks out of the mangroves after dark.

Lead Red's Crew. Hold Q Stockade. Keep your people alive, tide by tide.

Red's Crew

Every face on the island has a name, a family and a reason.

Red Cliff, a red-furred roo-human hybrid in a worn jacket

Red Crew Chief

The Blight can't take him. Nobody knows why.

Qatrina Enoka, smiling, in a grey singlet with her prosthetic arm

Qatrina Medic · second

Patches people and machines alike.

Keeve Rourke, weathered and grinning

Keeve Handler

Mouth like a harbour. Still sore about his boat.

Polly, a giant ibis with red plumage and a long curved beak, a saddle and cargo packs at her side

Polly Giant ibis

Goes very still a moment before trouble.

More of Q Stockade

Korvin Dahla in pale scarred powered armour with hazard stripes, a respirator over his face

Korvin Dragoon mercenary

Takes the job, finishes the job, counts everything.

Margaret Shecells in a crown of pale coral, beaded strands falling over a coral-red mantle

Margaret Stockie Priest · Coral Templo

She will tell you what the Currents want, asked or not.

Octavius Delane, an old man in purple and gold robes marked with atomic signs, a brass pendant at his chest

Octavius Atomic Priest

Came when the beacon went dark, with his two cats.

Viktoriya Goravya in green and gold armour and a blue cloak, a crimson cockatoo at her shoulder

Viktoriya Gatekeeper · Q Stockade Core

Bred to resist the Seablight. Keeper of the Core.

How it plays

One island. Three ways to hold it.

Lead

Talk to the people of Q Stockade, earn their trust, build a crew. What you say changes what happens.

Hold

Keep the stockie standing: power, water, food, shifts and shelter, while the nests creep closer each tide.

Fight

Aimed, positional combat - cover, line of fire and ammunition matter. Night is worse. Much worse.

People who talk back

Every islander has a voice, a family, wants and fears. Add your own AI key and they answer in their own words - and they can still only do what the game's rules allow. Without a key, Seablight plays completely on its own hand-written dialogue.

Inside the High-Set, a timber family home on stilts
The High-Set
The Generator room, gauges and cables
The Generator
The Coral Templo, a chapel grown from coral
The Coral Templo
A red trading airship over a tropical shore
The Empresa airship

Kinsland · prototype build 0.1

Download Seablight for Windows

This build is for playtesters. Type the password you were given to unlock the download.

Seablight_Drowned_Under_Setup.exe · 1.2 GB · 30 Oct 2026 · Windows 10 / 11, 64-bit

  1. DownloadSave the installer anywhere - your Downloads folder is fine.
  2. InstallRun it. It installs into your own user folder - no administrator password - and adds Seablight to the Start menu.
  3. PlayOpen Seablight, choose Kinsland, and press Play.

A clean download. Here's exactly what it does.

  • One game, nothing else. No bundled extras, toolbars, ads or accounts.
  • Stays in your user account. No administrator rights; no drivers, services or start-up items. The game keeps its settings and saves in your own user profile.
  • Removes cleanly. Uninstall it from Windows Settings › Apps like any other program.
  • Plays offline. The game shows its screens from inside your own computer only - nothing is opened to your network.
  • No tracking of our own. Seablight has no ads, no accounts and no analytics. Your saves stay on your computer.
  • AI is optional and yours. Off unless you add your own key in Settings; your key stays on your computer and is only sent to the AI provider you choose.
Windows says “Windows protected your PC”?

Seablight is a new game from an independent developer, so Windows doesn't recognise it yet and may show a blue SmartScreen screen the first time. That's a reputation check, not a virus warning. If you downloaded it from this page, choose More info, then Run anyway. If anything about the file looks different from what's described here, don't run it - and please tell us.

What you need

Windows 10 or 11 (64-bit) · 8 GB of memory · a graphics card from the last eight years or so · 1.2 GB of drive space, plus room for saves. Keyboard and mouse.

About the project

Made in Brisbane, between a human and a machine.

Seablight: Drowned Under is a human–AI interactive collaboration project, created and led by Dr James J Dillon. It shows a creative process that is detailed, methodical, principles-based and very human — enhanced by large language models and agentic AI, and grounded in the old fundamentals of dramatic storytelling.

The Kinsland campaign is the first playable build. Bullet Deluge and Stockie Defence - quicker ways into the same drowned world - are on the way.

  1. Late February 2026The project begins.
  2. 30 October 2026Prototype build 0.1 - the Kinsland campaign - opens for testing.
Sparky and Octavius under the Stockade breezeway, two cats at their feet

The creator

Dr James J Dillon

Creator of Seablight: Drowned Under, and the human responsible for it - its world, its people, its design, and every call about what happens next.

James is a Creative Digital Marketing Practitioner and embodied researcher based in Brisbane, Australia, with decades of practice across content strategy, publishing and digital media. He is co-founder and director of CreatePlay, a creative design studio.

His professional doctorate at Queensland University of Technology, Creative Third Space: Applying Creative Digital Marketing Practice Within Higher Education Settings (2024), took a mixed-methodology approach. It joined professional reflective practice - reflection in action and on action - with the development of working principles through experimental digital media artefacts: an integrated content campaign, a custom website, and four 360-degree cinematic virtual-reality stories. Its result, the Creative Third Space Process Model, is publicly available to higher-education professionals.

Since his doctorate, his work has focused on what AI tools do to creative digital marketing practice and to long-form content. From late February 2026 he began testing the opportunities that agentic AI and large language models offer for content production - by building a hybrid, mixed-genre interactive experience designed for the desktop PC. That experience is Seablight.

How the art is made - six principles

  • No artist's name is used in any prompt.
  • No company or brand name is used in any prompt.
  • Wherever possible, prompts use public-domain words.
  • Otherwise they coin new words, which build their own associations over time.
  • Other creators' work is never uploaded without their permission.
  • Creative digital marketing practice is applied throughout, as a solo entrepreneur representing CreatePlay.

Research: Creative Third Space LinkedIn

Hear when the tide turns.

New builds, new modes and the odd look behind the wall. No spam; leave any time.

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