Pirate Game by soerensen3
Pirate Game (Couldn't think of a better title)
You are a pirate and in control of a ship. The Royal Navy has surrounded you with their fleet. Kill all enemies to win or die trying! You can choose how many enemies you want to face before starting the game but keep in mind: The more you have, the worse it is!
Controls
Use the arrow keys to accelerate or steer. With the space bar you can load your cannon. The more power you the further the cannon ball goes. Once you release the space key the cannon ball is fired.
With the mouse you can change the view direction.
Use the minimap to find all enemy ships. The filled circles are nearby enemies. The other circles indicate the directions of remote enemies.
For the postjam version you can also use WASD for navigation or Numpad Zero to fire the cannon so you can play with one hand on the keyboard and one on the mouse.
SDL2 Dependency
The game requires SDL2.
On Windows..
...you don't need to do anything as all required files come with the zip.
On Linux ...
...just install the SDL2 version that comes with your distro.
Ubuntu
sudo apt update
sudo apt install libsdl2-2.0-0 libsdl2-image-2.0-0 libsdl2-ttf-2.0-0 libsdl2-mixer-2.0-0
Arch
sudo pacman -Syy sdl2 sdl2_image sdl2_ttf sdl2_mixer
Fedora
sudo dnf install SDL2 SDL2_image SDL2_ttf SDL2_mixer
Tools used
The game was made with Lazarus and Free Pascal. I used a pre alpha version of my engine pascal3d: https://bitbucket.org/soerensen3/pascal3d The models were made with blender. The textures are mostly from textures.com or made by myself.
Sounds and PostJam version
I made sounds and music during the jam but I could not get the audio working in my app. I included everything in the postjam version (With parts of the music re-recorded). I also added alternative controls, as written above. There were some bugs fixed also.
Ratings
| Overall | 1128th | 2.5⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 1131th | 2.263⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 1107th | 2.289⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 1146th | 1.974⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 1018th | 2.425⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 948th | 1.889⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 1046th | 2.382⭐ | 19🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 29🗳️ | 5🗨️ |
**Cons:** Controls are poor (it's difficult to keep your hand on the arrow keys and spacebar at the same time if you wish to move the camera around).
The idea is pretty neat, and the game is pretty fun to play if you develop it more. The controls are pretty uncomfortable, but that is easily changed.
Thanks for the feedback, I changed the controls in the PostJAM version and also added audio.
For me, the boat also takes too long to accelerate and too steer, although that could be easily tweaked.
Other than that congratulations :wink:
Sound would be a great addition too.
I tried the post ludum version to have the correct controls wich I usually don't do to be able to judge fairly. Even then it's hard to control the ship when there's a lot of inertia with the displacement and almost no in the rotation. When I receive damage it just becomes too cahotic. Also the x button to quit doesn't works. In my opinion controlability is the most important part of a game. That's what transfert the feeling of fun to the player. Even the simplest gameplay or graphics can be fun with a good controlability.
For the interpretation of the theme of course it's subjective, but I think the spririt was the more you have something considered positive the worse it is. In every game the more ennemy you have the worse it will be, that's too easy.