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Nice controls, although they weren't perfect.","format":"md","likes":3,"spam":"N"},{"id":953309,"author_name":"Collopi","author_uid":"collopi","epoch":1683074755,"text":"The graphics are awesome.","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":953323,"author_name":"Agrimes","author_uid":"agrimes","epoch":1683074943,"text":"Nice visuals, cool idea.","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":953338,"author_name":"EmojiBea","author_uid":"emojibea","epoch":1683075045,"text":"Fun idea! Cannon towers feel a bit too strong, but maybe I'm just not very good ;)","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":953343,"author_name":"Rjdrag","author_uid":"rjdrag","epoch":1683075068,"text":"Hard but fun.  The ship destruction is sooo good.  I played it over and over just for that.","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":955722,"author_name":"Akuirako","author_uid":"akuirako","epoch":1683108184,"text":"Absolutely love the visuals !!","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":955729,"author_name":"Retrific","author_uid":"retrific","epoch":1683108239,"text":"Very impressive destruction model! I found it very hard to shoot back though. My cannon was not able to fire high enough. Cool concept","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":955737,"author_name":"klausklapper","author_uid":"klausklapper","epoch":1683108396,"text":"Love the water shader (is it a shader?) and the fact you guys made this engine yourself and didn't just pull in Unity. There's not a lot there in terms of actual gameplay (yet), but as an avid fan of pirates and ship battling, I spent a shameful amount of time just sailing around the small sea and firing at that outrageous tower, so for me it worked quite well. I'd be interested to see where you guys will go with Sprig. Best of luck to you and your endeavours! :)","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":955748,"author_name":"LDJam user 279507","author_uid":"279507","epoch":1683108592,"text":"The destruction is great and the game does look pretty. I found the gameplay a little slow and unresponsive, perhaps it could be sped up - especially moving around the boat and turning the ship. Overall a nice game and does make you feel like you're commanding a big ol' ship.","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":955750,"author_name":"Cowgummiboy","author_uid":"cowgummiboy","epoch":1683108605,"text":"The destruction mechanic is super fun and well implemented, i love it.","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":955851,"author_name":"Fuse in a Bowl","author_uid":"fuse-in-a-bowl","epoch":1683109925,"text":"Completed it! I really liked the destruction mechanics, and especially how eager the towers were to shoot through their own friends :laughing:\n\nThe sailing was slow and deliberate, which feels very grounded and nice. The cannons were also slow, but this felt frustrating - I'd have preferred them to move a lot faster. Maybe you still want\/need the precision, so adding a \"sprint\" might give the best of both worlds.\n\nThis was really impressive already, then I read this is on your own engine... that's fantastic! Best of luck with it","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":960318,"author_name":"Devez","author_uid":"devez","epoch":1683155194,"text":"The cannon angles were a bit too harsh but I liked how smooth the boat was and how the towers got destroyed. I think maybe allowing us to destroy just the cannons would make more sense but anyway :stuck_out_tongue: . Solid work on your engine!","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":961131,"author_name":"leking","author_uid":"leking","epoch":1683166946,"text":"The game is great, and the destruction mechanism is very satisfying. However, I feel that there is a bit of repetition in each level. Perhaps you could reduce the number of cannons and add some other elements to the game.","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":961281,"author_name":"StudioCherno","author_uid":"studiocherno","epoch":1683169593,"text":"Hey @dougggggg and @darzu, great game!\n\nI really liked the destructible environment and the art style of the game, I think the game would be perfect in terms of art if instead of an empty horizon there were tall mountains with occasional greenery on it, giving it a Caribbean vibe.\n\nI also really like that the towers could destroy each other!\n\nI think it would be good if the player moved a little quicker and if you could rotate the sail to match with the wind!\n\nThere is a little bug when shooting a destroyed tower after its been destroyed creates destruction effect again even though no tower is visible (after collecting the delivery)\n\nOverall great game and well done! \n\n-Tim","format":"md","likes":3,"spam":"N"},{"id":961987,"author_name":"TopperVideoGames","author_uid":"toppervideogames","epoch":1683184334,"text":"Good job on this! The highlight is the destructions of the ship. I noticed you could even destroy a small part of your own ship with your cannon! The balance between sailing and shooting could have been better, I would prefer to instantly switch to a cannon to get a few shots in as I needed to keep moving with all the towers shooting at once. \n\nThe ship does get destroyed pretty quickly, maybe a way to repair to last longer would help? Keep up the work on the custom engine! 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The two part of the game of steering the ship and shooting towers are cool features but in my opinion they don't go well together at least not for a one player game. It was hard to get a felling of when the canons were useful cause I don't fell like shooting down all tower and just rushing it and trying to avoid the towers with steering was my way of trying to complete the levels","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":973726,"author_name":"Kevin Scroggins","author_uid":"kevin-scroggins","epoch":1683495893,"text":"Shows an error message even when loading on Chrome 109. :( Maybe it's a Windows 7 thing.","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":973782,"author_name":"KlasW","author_uid":"klasw","epoch":1683497426,"text":"Amazing graphics and physics! The controls are very intuitive and fun when you lern them! I can easily see this expanded to a bigger game. It was very satisfactory to shoot down the towers :) Really impressed!","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":973783,"author_name":"lillatorp","author_uid":"lillatorp","epoch":1683497469,"text":"Liked this a lot! Appreciate all the effort into making the 3D graphics in only three days. That's so impressive. 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