sami822 2023-05-01 15:22
Game stucks on map generation forever.
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD53 → Sails
By ping78
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 241 | 3.39 | 30 | |
| Fun | 212 | 3.35 | 30 | |
| Innovation | 167 | 3.44 | 30 | |
| Theme | 262 | 3.64 | 30 | |
| Graphics | 108 | 3.89 | 30 | |
| Audio | 301 | 2.61 | 28 | |
| Humor | 305 | 2.28 | 25 | |
| Mood | 264 | 3.04 | 27 |
Game stucks on map generation forever.
Solid riff on the "deliver a package" theme. I was able to play via Itch.
Couple notes: - No hand-holding or tutorial made it difficult to onboard - that is tough to include in just 48 hours. It wasn't obvious right away that I could fire back at enemies by pressing Q/E. However, that was a really interesting feature. - The buying/selling of goods didn't seem intuitive for me at first. I didn't mess around with the menu at all until my second play through. I found that I could cheat the market by buying goods and immediately selling them back. Perhaps it isn't supposed to be a capitalism sim! :) - No idea of where I was going. A map or compass indicator would be a big help.
Great work on: - Picking up scraps from enemy ships totally changed my attitude towards fighting them. I really like that little details. - What I imagine is a procedural map generation. My second gameplay appeared to have very different terrain. - Visuals for the water and wind was really nice and help sell the reason why the ship moved slower in some directions than others.
Very nice!
When I could figure out how to set sail, the sailing felt great. Would have loved something to indicate where to go or the controls to play the game though. Overall felt really good when driving the ship
@defrag And that is why goods disappear when you sell them. Yes, world is procedurally generated. As for the map...
Update: I'm proud to announce the "Map DLC". Also updated the onboarding text.
Really impressive, enjoyed it quite a bit!
Very cool! Always nice to see more sailing-type games, there's not enough of those out there.
I really like that the terrain is procedurally generated, it's a very nice touch. The map is also really nice! (Although I think the player's color could be a bit brighter, so it's easier to see where you are)
I did feel that the enemy count was slightly high, I ended up getting swarmed quite often. Instead of many ships that do a little damage, I feel it might make more sense to have fewer ships which deal more damage? So that their individual danger is higher.
Stunning graphics and impressive in scope! I really enjoyed it :)
Amazing! A really cool idea and an interesting way to deal with the topic of delivery. The boats are cool and the controls feel nice. The wind system is a nice addition. However, the game lacks some extra music and sounds. And I got stuck in the town menu for a little while before figuring out how to exit it.
Very cool game :)
Great game! I really enjoyed the combat and navigation, the wind system is super cool. The UI and menus feel a little confusing.
Nice idea and great graphics. Congratz for entry!
I'm a good player, but unfortunately not a good captain haha.
It's a really cool game with beautiful environments. I really like one design aspect in this game: the fact that enemy ship cannons can damage other enemy ships, so players can use tactics and positioning to make them destroy each other. (It's a great defensive strategy when I'm not good at turning and firing.)
Technically, this is an amazing achievement. The scope is really impressive for a compo! Loads of features, most of which I only noticed on my second playthrough: the wind, the canon-reload indicators, the fact that the map and towns are randomly generated. The trading system. The fact that enemies drop loot.
Sailing feels great, and is much more intuitive than I thought it would be by reading the intro. I would do away with the mouse controls for steering/firing, and you just need 1 key each for main menu/toggle full screen.
Agree with some other commentators that the UI and onboarding could use a bit of work. Took me quite a while to figure out what was going on initially, and how to start sailing. Perhaps somehow make it clearer which side is "yours" and which is the "towns" (Maybe pictures instead of names). And how to exit the trade screen and start sailing. Also I would pause the game while at port (so that enemies can't keep attacking you) and have a UI button to leave. It would be cool if the average price I'd paid so far for my cargo was displayed, so that I have a better idea of whether or not it would be a good time to sell. With that said, once I did get it, it made sense and was easy to use.
Polish/aesthetics wise, the graphics were great, the sounds were passable. The writing style and UI sounds don't quite match the style of the game, though.
This is a super impressive prototype which could easily be made into a full fledged game, I think. A bit of polish, tweaking the difficulty curve of enemies, ironing out some kinks in the economy, adding a fitting soundtrack. You'd get a steam wishlist from me!
Quite enjoyable, I listened to my own music while playing, I guess that's the advantage of not having one in game haha and had fun scamming towns by selling them their own goods at a much higher price they fixed themselves, the buffoons !
It's a bit RNG dependent though whether you can progress or not, as sometimes you get towns with cheap cannons straight away, and sometimes the first 10 towns have none, and then every enemy ship becomes a tank.
I unfortunately could not finish the game, despite getting many attempts that were going well, it consistently throws an error when I reach about halfway through the world, which forces me to refresh the page.
I liked that the winds are very strong and push you around, it made the battles less repetitive.
The boat spawn rate felt weird, some games I had no enemy boats, some game I would have them constantly spawning and have a good 4 boats around at all times, it feels dependent on the region too, whatever it is I could benefit from being a little more tame early game, once you get a few cannons it's not as problematic as you can destroy them all.
Really like the game, I haven't really played similar types of games, but this has gotten me really impressed.
Negatives As other people mentioned, the UI could use some work, maybe adding an exit button for the shops could help a lot. Maybe a way to have trajectories marked in some ways as additional clarity and making the reload bars a bit bigger would be really helpful. Also I cannot take back what I accidentally sell to the same city and that has caused me to lose a game once.
The randomization of the map + the towns done in a compo is pretty impressive and the wind mechanic and the overall movement feel super nice and smooth. I'm more impressed of the graphics done in such a short amount of time because from my experience, it takes many hours to do even 1 model.
The overall mood of the game was fairly fun and I will always love ways to scam cities into giving me more money
I really enjoyed the graphics of this game, as well as the steering and wind mechanics. I did find the game a little aimless, and wasn't sure what I was supposed to be doing. However, given the limited time, I think you did well and would be interested in seeing where the game would go if you chose to continue working on it!
Wow, really impressed at the execution! Congratulations! It reminded me of Sea of Thieves, which made me wish for more sailing mechanics, such as sail angle and more challenging ship maneuvers. But again, great job doing all this for a Compo!
The game has a cool concept, and I enjoyed the mechanics with the wind and sail. However, there are too many enemies, and they appear too abruptly, making it difficult to get accustomed to the controls before being attacked. There were also issues with transferring resources in the initial menu. Nonetheless, the game is still enjoyable!
wow that is such an achievement for 48 hours, awesome job! love the sailing phjyscs and the wind-waker gust effects my only note is, a lot of ports will buy from you at a higher price than they sell... that's a bit unusual!
There are some really neat things I liked: procedural map (done with a random noise map maybe?), the looks, the feel. Great job.
One thing that took me longer than expected is how to get out of the port. I didn't think of "just move fowards" while I had a shop menu in front of me.
Also, sea shanties... I get it, you did it alone, time was not on your side... but come on, sea shanties are a must. If anyone who is reading this hasn't played yet, you know what to have playing on another browser window while playing.
Very cool work on the procedural terrain generation. I liked the sailing, and the boat battles were fun (despite being a little simple). I didn't quite know what I was doing in the store. I was not sure what any of the things I could buy would really do. I don't know how intentional it was for me to book it from start to finish. Unsure if I was supposed to stop at other towns to repair and such. Made it all the way to the end with 2 HP remaining! Good job on the game!
Wow, very impressive for a compo ! I really liked it, and the fact that it's re-playable thanks to Procedural generation. It can get too crowded very quickly though. Great entry overall ! well done
Technically impressive for a jam, I've loved the visuals and having a procedural level - so cool! Would be nice to start with a more friendly balancing like delivering to spots nearby or having less enemies spanwed so I could do the game loop more times before being destroyed by the ships hahaha. Lastly, a few times I could see the enemies spawning on screen so maybe tweak them to spawn always a bit further as well. Good job!
This is insane dude! the amount of work you reach to pull up make the game super pleasant to play. The physics of the sail of the boat is juicy. The wind particles are perfectly balanced. I enjoyed it a lot, thanks!
This was fun. I liked that the pirates can attack you while you're docked; it could be frustrating sometimes, but it increased the pressure and felt more realistic.