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The compensation of the sea motion reminds me of how Zelda Link's Awakening sea intro sequence was done on the Game Boy. It's suprising how two sea-themed games can make use of the same techniques accross vastly different hardware :)

Here with some animated gifs: http://kemenaran.winosx.com/posts/links-awakening-rendering-... (disclaimer: I'm the author).

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That link is dead here... this works: http://kzone.winosx.com/posts/links-awakening-rendering-the-...

Edit: after reading said post, it's a great explanation of the techniques used in Link's Awakening's intro. That game looked gorgeous on the B/W Gameboy, it's cool to actually understand how they managed to pull it out technically.

That link is not dead, just fainted on the shore.

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