Freeze the plumbing, then paint.
The bot and the economy are frozen while the visual redesign happens. Nothing from the old version may be lost; widgets can only be condensed into richer surfaces.
01 · Shoreline
Warm it up.
The stream has been through many visual skins. The last one was a Windows Vista Aero theme. It was the best yet, but it felt cold. So V12, "Shoreline," goes full Frutiger Aero: warm, nostalgic nature-tech, heavy glass and liquid, inspired by the Wii, 3DS and Wii U system menus.
The one-line brief: a console dashboard at a pond's edge. The goal is an identity you'd recognize from a single screenshot.
02 · Constraints
Beautiful, on a budget.
The overlay runs 24/7 inside OBS, on the same PC that's encoding six live cameras. Every effect has to be cheap on the graphics card, and everything has to survive YouTube compression.
24/7Never goes down
6Cameras encoding on the same machine
480pMust stay legible after compression
1Hero: the live tank. Chrome slides away for shows.
03 · One universe
One shrimp, three renderers.
Every shrimp is fully defined by a single seed, and it renders identically as pixel art on the stream, on the website, and in the game. That's what lets a viewer own a shrimp, trade it, and send it to swim on the livestream. Consistency here isn't a style guide. It's architecture.
The stream
The overlay, the chat bot, the economy and four full-screen shows, all run from one PC.
Shrimp OS
The website is a fake Frutiger Aero operating system. Every app on the desktop is a real page.
Shrimp Town Idle
A mobile idle aquarium game in development, sharing the same genetics engine. Its Aero UI kit, above.
04 · The calls
Running a world.
A currency that can't be gamed.
Sheckels come from watch time, chat, super chats and memberships. A lifetime-earned counter only ever goes up, so status means something.
No flat surfaces.
Every surface gets layered, dimensional, alive depth: glass, gloss, refraction, and real physics where the budget allows.
15 species, rarity you can read.
The Shrimpydex shows every gene-rendered species with color-coded rarity, from Red Cherry to Galaxy Pinto.
05 · The work
Inside Shrimp OS.
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