A big 3D seal adventure
A round, spotted seal escapes the circus and blasts through eleven worlds of loops, rails and chases. Every world ends with a special act that turns into a completely different game.
In development for PC and Android phones. Try the prologue, the first act and a special act in your browser.
What is it?
Galumph the Seal is a high-speed 3D action platformer in the tradition of Sonic Adventure. Its hero is Galumph: grey, spotted, big-eyed and very round, who has just escaped a life of nightly circus tricks.
On land he waddles. At speed he is a homing missile. Roll into a ball and chain homing attacks from enemy to enemy, blast through loops, grind rails across the sky, bounce off springs and belly-slide down icy slopes, scooping up every fish in sight. Fish are your health: get hit and they scatter.
Each world mixes classic speed-platforming acts with surprising twists (karts, sleds, gliders, swimming, jetpacks, pinball, tiny planets...) and ends in a special act that becomes a different game altogether.
Features
Homing attacks, loops, corkscrews, rails, springs and dash panels, with a belly slide, an air dash and a ground pound of your own.
From snowy islands to neon cities, a land made of candy, the moon and deep space. Every world has its own look, enemies, weather and tricks.
Kart races, sleds, gliders, swimming, jetpacks, pinball and tiny planets with their own gravity: every world mixes classic acts with something new.
Waddle between acts on a little 3D island for every world, with zip lines, rafts, huts, friendly seals and hidden stashes.
171 cosmetics: hats, coats, backpacks, faces and finishes, plus skills and emotes. No ads and no real-money purchases: everything is earned by playing.
Eight red fish in every act, S ranks to chase, hidden gem fish (diamond and emerald) to spend on cosmetics, and giant rings and star posts that lead to classic special stages.
Touch controls made for phones Any controller WASD Keyboard and mouse Fully offline, no account required, no microtransactions, no nonsense
Adventure
Eleven worlds, eleven moods. Swipe or scroll through them.
Where it all began.
Ice floes, glacier chutes, aurora skies and icicle caverns. Penguins, walruses and gulls.
Sun, surf and a very big whale.
Boardwalks, palm bluffs, a moonlit lagoon, coral reef swimming and a carnival pier.
Vines, rivers and rain.
Swinging vines, rapids, monsoon storms with lightning, a leaf glider and a firefly village.
Traps of the old temples.
Crushers, serpent slides, a rolling calendar stone, cenote dives and a pinball temple.
Ride the sands.
Quicksand, sandstorm cannons, a starry oasis, dune sledding and a kart rally.
Rooftops, rails and rush hour.
Traffic, monorails, a skyscraper climb, a downtown maze and a neon skyline at night.
Storm the spire.
Swinging axes, ramparts, toboggans, hedge mazes, a flooded moat and a clocktower.
Neon, shrines and blossoms.
Torii gates, a scramble crossing, rolling daruma, a jetpack skyline and bullet trains.
Sweet, sticky and dangerously delicious.
Gumdrop springs, donut loops, chocolate rivers and collapsing cake tiers.
One small galumph for seal-kind.
Low gravity, craters, airlocks, a meteor chase, rover rallies and gravity wells.
Leap between the stars.
Tiny planets with their own gravity, launch stars, flipping stations and a rainbow road.
Getting there is half the fun.
A speedboat, a hot-air balloon and a rocket carry Galumph from one world map to the next.
The showcase
Every world ends with a special act: a self-contained game with its own rules, camera, characters and jokes. Here they are, without the spoilers.
Frostbite Isles
Mountain climb
Ascend the snowy mountain, make your mark and make your grandma proud.
Sunny Shoals
Chase set piece
Run! An orca in a captain's hat is smashing the boardwalk right behind you.
Mango Canopy
Night-time celebration
Set up and enjoy a relaxing festival among the stars!
Sunstone Ruins
Mystery exploration
Search for the hidden artifacts to reveal the path.
Mirage Dunes
Puzzle dungeon
What mysteries await you in the Tomb of the Sand King? Surely nothing bad could happen in there...
Harbour City
Galumph... gets a job?
Alarm, suit, train, spreadsheet. A day at the office.
Moonspire Castle
A royal errand
Galumph has an urgent letter for the King. What could possibly go wrong at the castle?
Neo Sakura
Intense fight
A brilliant battle between bright beams of light.
Frosting Falls
Match-3 "game"
A "fun" match-3 game with your very own hype announcer and some great in game shop offers 😂.
Tranquility Floe
A mission on the moon!
Collect moon samples and then prepare for a strange encounter...
Galumph Galaxy
Grand finale
Hunt for the eleven ??? ??? across the worlds, then face ???, Tyrant of the Void.
Turn the blue spheres red on a wraparound planet. Reached through hidden giant rings.
Bank through a twisting tube and hit the fish quota. Carry 30 fish to a star post to get in.
A turn-based dungeon crawler where every floor is different.
Characters
Our hero
A harbour seal with a huge appetite and no intention of slowing down. For a thousand shows he balanced balls, jumped through hoops and rode a tricycle under the ringmaster's whip. Now he is free, and he moves like it.
He is round, soft and expressive, with 171 cosmetics in his wardrobe and emotes from a wave to a belly slap. Every outfit is a real 3D garment fitted to his body, and it shows up everywhere: in levels, story scenes, special acts and dialogue portraits.
Royal
Wizard
Viking
Aviator
Party
Chef
Met in the prologue
Identity unknown
One night after the show, a cloaked figure crept into the circus, left Galumph the key to his cage and vanished into the smoke.
Who is he, and what does he want? Find out by playing.
Cirque Grandioso
A pompous old walrus with a whip, who only knows one word: AGAIN.
A friend on the road
A sunny yellow seal in big round glasses. Spotting him is lucky. Hugging him is luckier.
Sunny Shoals
An orca in a captain's hat. Unstoppable, cheerful, hungry.
Mirage Dunes
The tomb's grumpy owner. Bring mirrors. And maybe a bigger plan.
Neo Sakura
Two giant mechs, one neon night. One has bunny ears. The other has a score to settle.
Tranquility Floe
Claims to be a seal. Insists he is fully three-dimensional. He is not.
Tyrant of the Void
Grand, theatrical and patient. Waiting at the very end.
Penguin
Walrus
Crab
Monkey
Golem
Tanuki
Gummy bear
UFO
Try it now
Start where Galumph's story starts: the circus prologue and his great escape. Then race through Frostbite Bay, the first act of the adventure, with loops, springs and a homing chain over the sea. After that, run for your life in Whale of a Time, the Sunny Shoals special act, with a very hungry orca right behind you. It all runs right in your browser.
Play the prologue, Act 1 & a special act
Planned for the future
Galumph's acts are built in its own level editor. The plan is to open that editor up to everyone, with a community hub where players share the levels they make.
Draw roads and rails, sculpt hills, drop in loops, springs, enemies, switches and doors, then press Play to try it instantly.
Upload your levels to a community server for anyone to play.
Download other players' levels, rate your favourites and see what's popular right now.
A plan for later on, not a promise: there are no dates for it yet.
Behind the scenes
Galumph runs on its own engine, built on three.js, made for phones first and scaling all the way up to a gaming PC.
Galumph's characters, props and textures are designed like any game art, then built and stored as compact code instead of bulky model and image files. That keeps the download small and loading quick on a phone, and lets every outfit fit the seal perfectly.
All 193 sound effects come out of the game's own synthesizer, and every character chatters in an Animalese-style voice of their own.
The same game runs in a browser, on Android and on PC, and plays the same at 30, 60, 120 or 165 frames a second.
A level editor, plus editors for cutscenes, characters, animations and world maps, all testing in the real game at the press of a button.
The road ahead
Where Galumph is heading, in no particular order. A wish list, not a schedule: no dates and no promises.
Enhancing the acts with even more interesting gameplay, more secrets and more routes to discover.
A fuller script with a recurring cast of friends, more context for the journey and more heart, keeping the slapstick and the seal puns.
A soundtrack will be composed for the game, for every world, special act and boss.
Refined characters, key art, and environment passes on each world's landmarks.
The level editor open to everyone, with a community server to share, download and rate levels. More above.
The desktop build already runs, with keyboard, mouse and controllers. A Steam page is the next step we'd like to take.
Consoles are the long-term plan. The game is built to be portable from the ground up, so Galumph can waddle onto more screens.
Devlog
Every milestone gets a new version of the game's design document. Here is what changed at each one, what was planned next, and the seal, the worlds and the cast, then and now.
Milestone 1Design doc v0.1Done
Galumph started life as a three-lane endless runner: a round seal, a snowy track and a lot of fish. The very first design document was written to track what was built, what was wanted and what was still just an idea.
Milestone 2Design doc v0.2Done
The prototype gained the ideas that would carry into everything after it, from rails and the homing attack to the wardrobe and Blue Spheres.
Milestone 1
Milestone 2
Milestone 3Design doc v0.3Done
The big change: a full 3D adventure in the spirit of Sonic Adventure became the main game, with free movement, momentum and camera-relative controls.
Milestone 2
Milestone 3
TodayMilestone 2
Milestone 3
Today
Milestone 4Design doc v0.4Done
Each world became eleven acts, ending in a special act that turns into a different game.
Milestone 5Design doc v0.5Done
The adventure reached its full size, from the Frostbite Isles to the stars, and Galumph found his voice.
Milestone 6Design doc v0.6Done
A pass over everything players see first, from the world maps to the circus cast.
Milestone 5
Today
Milestone 5
Today
Milestone 7Design doc v1.0Done
Groundwork for what comes next: better tools and more places to play.
Milestone 8Design doc v1.1Done
The level editor grew into a real production tool, the enemies were rebuilt, and the game gained the settings to look its best on every screen.
Milestone 7
Today
Milestone 9In progress
A full set of tools for building the game: more ways to make levels, and editors for cutscenes, characters and world maps. The enemies got another big upgrade too.
Milestone 7
Milestone 8
Today
Milestone 7
Today
Milestone 7
TodayPress and contact
For press, partnerships and everything else:
Email info@galumphtheseal.com
Social links Coming soon
Press kit Coming soon
Screenshots on this page are captures from the game in development.
