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Faster Than Wind by alhime

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made by alhime for LD 43 (JAM)

What's going on

You, a Captain of pirate ship, are on your way home with a mountain of treasure. But, when you loaded the treasure onto your ship, you forgot to check the food storage.

Now you must find a way to get back home even if it means going through dangerous waters or making your own crew walk the plank... And all while the food lasts.

But fear not, cause if you organize your crew right, not even the tallest waves will stand in your way. May you have a safe journey.

How to play

There are only few posts to which pirates can be assigned on the ship. Each post has its max capacity, which determines how many pirates can be there at the same time. The posts, together with their max capacity are marked with red on the image below. Ship tutorial.png

You will need to find optimal placement of the pirates in order to beat the game.

Make sure that your crew can see where the ship can go, and that you pick your preferred path before end of each turn. PathTutorial.PNG

Drag and drop pirates around, and have fun.

To end the turn, and see its effect click on the button in the lower right corner. TurnEndTutorial.PNG

P.S. You should probably also pay attention to the pirate and ship stats.

Say Hello

Hi all, we are team Pst_Plauge and this is the first game we made together. Most of us have zero or very little experience with Unity so this proved to be quite a challenge but we tried to make everything from scratch and see how far we can go. The game we present to you is very much unfinished and a lot of features we wanted are left unimplemented, but nonetheless we hope that you will enjoy it!

May we Jam again, Team Pst_Plauge

Credits

Credits for the font used: https://www.fontspace.com/joannavu

HTML5 (web) https://kraljojed.itch.io/faster-than-wind
Source code https://github.com/AleksandarHimel/LudumDare43
Windows https://1drv.ms/u/s!AtTStkxlFMBak84ARLX_P9Z96i0-NQ
HTML5 (web) https://pst-plauge.itch.io/faster-than-wind
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/43/faster-than-wind

Ratings

Overall 999th 2.656⭐ 47🧑‍⚖️
Fun 1007th 2.311⭐ 47🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 724th 2.898⭐ 46🧑‍⚖️
Theme 842th 2.944⭐ 47🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 908th 2.478⭐ 47🧑‍⚖️
Audio 574th 2.773⭐ 46🧑‍⚖️
Humor 580th 2.721⭐ 45🧑‍⚖️
Mood 796th 2.907⭐ 45🧑‍⚖️
Given 60🗳️ 34🗨️

Feedback

CapnAT
04. Dec 2018 · 18:52 UTC
I can dig it
MadBear Gang
04. Dec 2018 · 22:33 UTC
You should add some sort of tutorial... xD
Frank Gevaerts
04. Dec 2018 · 22:44 UTC
This looks like it could be good, but I can't figure out what to do
Dining Philosopher
04. Dec 2018 · 23:07 UTC
Cool idea, placing pirates was a bit clunky (kept glitching to the sail? Maybe I just don't get it).
wheatleyscience
04. Dec 2018 · 23:09 UTC
can't move samuel to Sails, it is full... we need some tutorials, at least you will add some text tutorial to itch.io page. it will be more playable. after that i want to play again. because i like pirate games. arggh!! :)
aortega
04. Dec 2018 · 23:11 UTC
You can see the default skybox in the menu :/. I didn't understand how to move the sailors. I think the shark and calamari are cute. Nice effort, at least you finished something, congratulations.
Krylos
04. Dec 2018 · 23:20 UTC
That was a sweet game, and definitely a nice take on sacrificing.
It was quite unclear where you can even move the pirates, but ulitmately I was able to beat the game. I enjoyed it quite a bit, I am a fan of resource management games.
Good job, congratulations!
DKMK100
04. Dec 2018 · 23:50 UTC
I played the game for quite a while. It would benefit from a tutorial. I actually really like this game, can I please have permission to make improvements to it? I will give full credit to you for the original version. I have so many things I want to add... Please??
Kaish
05. Dec 2018 · 01:13 UTC
Congratulations for the game.
I missed a tutorial, unfortunately the crew died. I liked the song =]
NateTheGreat
05. Dec 2018 · 06:26 UTC
I like the concept and after several plays started to get some idea what was going on. I thought I was winning as I was getting pretty close to home and when I got a message saying that the seas were merciful it suddenly said I died. Trying again I got a message that pirates hat attacked with some stats on the damage done but then it just said I lost without explanation. I found the only strategy just to be to ditch any crew members that get sick which I guess is fitting for the theme!
EvoGenGames
05. Dec 2018 · 08:05 UTC
Hi there,

The main selling points of this game are clearly the audio and art.
The game mechanics didn't feel that well designed and therefor not that fun either.
Try to work on that the next time.
Also try to give the user some visual clues on what he can do, for exemple put little indicators on where pirates might be put to work. It took me a while to realise that I could move them...

Anyway now I've got that tune in my head for the rest of the day... Thanks ;-)
DeathStorm
05. Dec 2018 · 09:05 UTC
Cool game and great job for unity newbies.

Hope you two stick to GameDev and we see annother Game of you on the next LudumDare.

Well Done
flcx
05. Dec 2018 · 09:12 UTC
Thanks everyone for the feedback, and support.

Pirates snapping to the sails is a bug, and we will probably soon upload post JAM build with bunch of game experience / UI fixes.

Edit: Post JAM builds are now uploaded.
Andrija
05. Dec 2018 · 13:20 UTC
@dkmk100, the link to the source on GitHub is in the description. Feel free to take the code and submit a pull request for whatever you want to fix or change. If you want to make your own separate game based on our stuff you're free to do that as well, we only ask you to rename it to eliminate any possible confusion :)
okuar
05. Dec 2018 · 18:49 UTC
It's pretty great concept and I like the craft design of the game). ALso special graditude to sound work. But I don't get it how to move characters and how to prevent their sickness. Overall it's a lovely game:)
smbe19
06. Dec 2018 · 15:35 UTC
Really cool game. I really liked that all the pirates had all those attributes which influence how you can sail and how the resource usage is influenced. You managed to match the theme quite well with having to sacrifice some crew members such that the rest of the crew (well, like 1 pirate...) can survive.
szabe
06. Dec 2018 · 19:03 UTC
Unfortunately, I have no idea what to do and what I should do. Whenever I moved the pirates they either didn't move or an other pirate disappeared. What does the path do? This needs more tutorializing.
SKDF
06. Dec 2018 · 19:14 UTC
The base game is indeed a bit unclear, so I randomly dropped pirates and lost over and over. I'll try your post jam build later and rate you based on it :)
The boat could have used a bit of movement with the waves. Still, I like the "childish" art style and the tune is catchy!

P.S. the "boom" sound is too much loud, I almost had a heart attack when hearing it
Fenerax
06. Dec 2018 · 21:52 UTC
Once I found out what to do and where each section was the game was actually really fun, managing where to put pirates based on their skills, on my second attempt I managed to win without sacrificing pirates. To improve you could make a tutorial or make it clearer which sections are which. Overall the concept and game is really fun.
Morris Beardbarian
06. Dec 2018 · 21:54 UTC
I can't get the tune out of my head. Congrats for that.

Other than that though, I couldn't really understand how everything is related to the pirates themselves. A few things were just out of my hand (the pirate encounters and sicknesses). Can they be influenced in some way I didn't find? I mean, obviously have the best pirate manning the cannon but that does nothing for the sicknesses. Maybe just the RNG God was merciless to me? I got attacked 3 times in a row by pirates. :(
zanagi
09. Dec 2018 · 06:55 UTC
Really cute looking game, but as others have already mentioned, need some transparency (and maybe a tutorial) on the mechanics.
Pedro Rosa
09. Dec 2018 · 12:53 UTC
I understood the game but I think you should definitely include a tutorial because it is really difficult to get what the game is about at first. The UI of the game could also be improved to make the game easier and more intuitive to play. The artwork of the game should also be improved. I think the sound works nice.
stolA
15. Dec 2018 · 09:01 UTC
Did not really understand how my decisions affects next day. Graphics r great and i could play music on background for days :D GJ!
Hilvon
16. Dec 2018 · 23:24 UTC
An interesting game, with a feel like FTL. Though much simpler.

Unfortunately there is little strategic depth as once you figure out optimal placements for the pirates, there is little need to move them around. Maybe having something like "Tiredness" or "Morale" that would force you to send some pirates to rest so you have to reshuffle them based on who is currently unavailable to work could add a bit in this department.

Also the Kitchen seems to do absolutely nothing. Dunno if this is by design or just wasn't implemented properly. I expected it to lower the food consumption (as coocking helps use food more optimally), but the forecast didn't show the difference. So the only use I had for it was an empty spot to shuffle pirates around - most areas only allow one person so you can't assign the right person till you move te wrong person elsewhere.

The hitboxes for work areas are also tiny, and twice I accidentally threw people offboard while trying to assign them to Oars.

The Theme is also not well presented as it is possible to get home before running out of food, without sacing any crewmembers. It takes always running through combat encounters, but you can safely handle one beating, and if you get lucky RNG to scare off attackers with Cannons, you can get home in 3 turns.