ARR World

togis 2017-04-28 14:23

Aaaarr Mates!

Let's wet the old boat and sail the seas! This is a superb game with an amazing art style. You have to manage your own pirate boat O_o by hiring crew, buying boulder for your cannon and planks to repair.

Then go on the sea and hunt three different faction with increasing difficulty.

The management part of the game has a real impact on the abilities of your ship, from manoeuvrability to fire power!

The music is great, the art is great and the gameplay is great! Aaaarr! Good work mates.

(You can see me playing this game for the first time on the vod https://youtu.be/_Upt3PIzndo?t=36m11s )

krunoslav 2017-05-02 09:27

Hi! The graphics are beautifully made, the 3D pixel style is very nice! The game it's very funny, the possibility of buying stuff and the manage it's very good. The way of how you manage the difficulty is also well made.Nevertheless I found some ways to easily sink the ships and some times the game was slow, but I played in Ubuntu 16.04, maybe it's for that.

In all the game is very good :)

Greetings!

gao-ming 2017-05-02 09:43

The graphics are beautiful. Great work!

piponazo19 2017-05-02 10:06

I love the graphics and how to easily manage the crew!! Very good game

jackyjjc 2017-05-02 10:34

I love the art style and the music, it really give me the feeling of going back to the 15th century and being a pirate. The sailing control was pretty realistic. The combat was very satisfying when you land those shots. The crew management aspect of it is great, give me a lot of variety to play with. However, I found that buccaneers and captains are the most important ones. I found raiders is kind of useless because I never engages in close combat. The scout I can't tell the differences between 2 and 2+.

The game provides 3 difficulties but I found that I can just stick with farming the Spanish until I get enough resource to take on the other two fractions so it got a bit dull. I wish I could occupied their city but turns out I couldn't do that (would be great since that gives the player a goal and it stops player from farming it indefinitely).

Also the injury mechanics is interesting but it introduces a lot of busy work into the game (I need to constantly reshuffle people when I get a lot of injured people) and that wasn't very fun.

I also found a bug where the cannon balls goes into the negative numbers :p

Sorry for giving so much feedback. I hope you don't see them as negativities. I love this game and played it for more than half an hour and that's why I wanted it to be even better!

It is definitely one of my favorites entries! Well done!

ilseroth 2017-05-02 21:05

Pretty good, might be a bit biased since I like pirate games. That being said, you say to keep a ton of buccaneers alive but all I did was set my raiders and they ate enemy ship while I sailed behind them.

Thanks for the game <3

christina-antoinette-neofotistou 2017-05-02 21:12

Super cool!!! And in such a short amount of time. Lovely graphics, very sid-meier's pirates! Love the management aspect of it! Top marks!!

karai17 2017-05-02 21:39

Pretty fun game, very pretty! I couldn't quite figure out how to destroy a faction though~

japes 2017-05-02 21:41

great entry! my favourite so far :) the 3d ships are awesome! I love the style, and the giant hand placing the baseball/island at the start was a nice touch, I'm a little kid imagining all this right? Very fun mechanic, I think this could be part of a great pirate game. By itself it feels a bit unfinished - what's the point of all this fighting? As mentioned in another comment, being able to conquer the neighbouring islands would be an awesome touch. At first I assumed there would be some exploration involved, maybe finding hidden islands or sea monsters. If you develop this further I think that could be really cool! Have any of you played Sunless Sea?

Thanks again for a fun entry :)

smiling-cat-entertainment 2017-05-05 03:06

This was really fun! The music, graphics, gameplay were all well done. Eventually I got powerful enough that all my raiders had to do was glare at the Spanish Armada and it sunk. Excellent job!

tacomabert 2017-05-05 06:40

The game looks great. Sound effects are also great as is the music. Sid M Pirates is one of my favorite games, and I felt a little bit of that game in this one.

Might just be me, but the game felt too difficult to start. Every other ship is hostile, and when you're battling one ship, you could have two or more others battling you at the same time. The compass is also hard to read, so I'm not sure if I was just in the wrong faction. Controls were also incorrect, I had to use Tab to do crew management. Home base should also be a safe harbor where you are unable to be attacked. Would like more than one cannon on each side to start, too.

Your game definitely has some parts I really did enjoy, but because of the difficulty, it was not as fun as I hoped.

peachtreeoath 2017-05-05 08:16

Very impressive work, it has a ton of breadth and clearly took a lot of work to make. I actually liked that it was a simple pirate game. Whenever I play a new one, I'm afraid it's going to have a complex trade and faction system. I like the gameplay of just fighting harder and harder ships while upgrading your own + crew. Though the different crew placements could use extra balancing, I liked that each slot really had a unique use to it.

those-30-ninjas 2017-05-05 16:26

Wow really impressive game from a jam. Graphics are great, controls and movement felt right. Can you destroy a faction, it seems like you should be able to? Music was great. Really great entry :)

feltip 2017-05-05 22:14

Graphics are gorgeous. A lot of polish super well done! :)

killerkun 2017-05-06 09:08

This is one awesome game!

The music and visual style are completely incredible, controls are great and the difficulty is on point. I kinda wish there was a way to mark the faction when you are dominating them.

I found an exploit very early into the game while fiddling around. In the store, when you change the ammount of materials to the right it substracts 3 gold, but when you change it to the left it adds 5, so I effectively had access to as much gold as I wanted at the start, I could buy 100 buccaneers at the beginning if I wanted to.

blackrose 2017-05-07 19:38

That a really good game! it have a lot of work! congratulations! And the art is so beautiful ^^

hackschnitzel 2017-05-15 17:37

Good game ;-) And the idea is wonderful. (We had nearly the same idea ;-) but still there are a lot of differences in the game-play. Your game is polished and has very nice art... Congratulations... Sincerely the Pirats of AaaRrr (https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/aaarrr-fight-epic-battles-on-our-small-and-flat-world)

veralos 2017-05-16 08:08

Really nice game. The graphics look great, the audio sounds good - overall, the presentation's fantastic. The upgrading is pretty intuitive and seems to work well. It's also fun fighting other ships. I feel like there should be some way to take over the enemies' bases, though. If there was a way I couldn't figure it out.

2017-05-17 11:51

Very fun game! I included it in my Ludum Dare 38 compilation video series, if you’d like to take a look :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZ-D40BBNhA

wisstopher 2017-05-18 22:55

Amazing entry, gave me the feeling of Sid Meier's Pirates! Though the water made my eyes go all funny after a bit,

daisychubb 2017-05-19 14:09

NICE!!! I can't believe what you accomplished in such a short time frame, this game is fun, the graphics and polished and impressive. Great use of the theme as well, this is unique and pirates are always a win imo. My favourite mechanic is the upgrades - user friendly and created incentive to keep playing. A++!

philomory 2017-05-19 18:58

This game is really something else, one of the most fun games I played all Jam, as well as having a very nice aesthetic and great music! The connection to the theme seems a little tenuous, but, ehh.

I also found @killerkun's exploit, but it's sort of tedious to make use of on a large scale so I didn't make _too_ much use of it :stuck_out_tongue:. Really handy if most of your guys have been killed and you just need a bit of money to recover, though.

I feel like this game is a really cool core for a larger experience; if this got expanded into one of those games where you sail around the world discovering new lands and sinking ships, maybe raiding harbors or whatever, I would play the shit out of that. Though, in making an expanded version you'd need to address the enemy spawning issue; it's fine for the Jam, but I think to sustain a larger experience you'd need to rebalance a lot of stuff, including the way enemy ships behave.

I do think it would have been good for there to be a reason to upgrade your scouts or captain beyond level one, though. In particular, I really would have liked the be able to upgrade the maneuverability of my ship; for scouts, I don't think it'd be a good idea to have more scouts mean more vision range (you'd be nearly obliged to always have as many scouts as was necessary to see the whole screen), but if the game was expanded to include non-combat, exploration elements I could definitely see scouts helping you discover interesting new lands or hidden treasures or whatever.

In any case, good job!