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  amarant
  This is awesome! To offer some constructive feedback: the wind direction could be clearer. More particles flowing across the waters! Especially when the direction is changing. Looking up at the wind teller is unintuitive, even for this old sailor who understands where it comes from. I also didn't always feel like it mattered which direction I angled my sails, only how much I angled them. Like I could angle them for a port wind when in reality I had a starboard wind, and I'd sail just fine.In the other hand that made it easier, and it was already hard enough lol! I bet it's easier on desktop though...Edit: you should add a race/regatta mode!
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  torlok
  There's a vague correlation between wind direction and sailing speed, but there's nothing real here. The mechanics of sailing upwind, downwind, or the cost of tacking are interesting mechanics that aren't explored here whatsoever. The dead angle on a ship with a square rig should be massive. This ship goes upwind like it has a motor.
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  sails
  Great! I feel well positioned to say this is great :) I’ve been hoping for something like this.My ideal: slower, more real time, full maps based on actual locations, replay specific naval battles. Multiplayer (maybe it is?), realistic fog of war. I could go onEdit: a few more. Sail trim is clunky and seems unresponsive or unclear how it maps to physics. Would be better to have trim on one side and steering on the other. Also to turn off tacking with tap. Steering too sensitive. The battles are great. (All on mobile)
• FacelessJim
  This reminds me of Patrician III so much. The sailing battles had the same wind mechanics. It’s amazing, so many memories unlocked.
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  ryandrake
  Very cute and fun looking game, but I found it very difficult. Enemies have perfect aim, and I can't hit anything. I don't think you can even heal the ship unless you happen to stumble upon just the right treasure. Do you have a difficulty slider/setting? Maybe I missed it. It feels like I'm playing on the hardest mode.EDIT: After playing around some more, yea it feels less like an action game and more like a "sailing around with nearly zero health" simulator.
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  tinywind
  The 2 game modes are free to play in browser. Come join our 245 active captains, I’d love any and all playtest feedback at this stage!
• mickael-kerjean
  Would love to know the technical details of how you made such an awesome game
• rafael859
  I just started learning how to sail, and while trying to memorize all the new terminology I was wishing for an interactive way to play out the basic processes short of being on an actual boat. All of the games I found online were far too realistic, this was exactly what I was looking for. It's already close enough, you could certainly have an "educational" mode with a little bit more jargon. Some easier ramp-up to the game would be nice (thinking a tutorial to get used to the sail controls, or maybe a mode where the sails get automatically pivoted). Overall this is great!
• vrtnis
  Awesome, great execution! This could become a really cool RL environment with a headless sim and procedural voyages. Factorio has something similar with the Factorio Learning Environment SDK.
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  sanghoonio
  If you have real wind physics, might as well apply realism to turning as well, so that ships can't turn in place. Rudder should only work with applied speed.
• is_true
  Thanks. I had a blast for like 10 minutes. Sinked everyone around haha
• dodu_
  Very cool and congrats! Super huge undertaking to ship a game.Any dev(b)logs for it? Always curious how these games handle multiplayer and what engines/stack they use.
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  SubiculumCode
  Is it multiplayer or am I playing against bots?I submitted this a few days ago, so glad to see it posted again. Fun game. Funner to think I am sinking people, not bots :)
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  VTimofeenko
  This is probably PEBCAK, but I can't figure out how to capture an island
• iJohnDoe
  Really fun! Enjoyed playing.
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  Dansvidania
  sails perpendicular to the wind for full power? my sailing experience is dated, but that does not seem to be right to me. Don't they want a lower angle of attack? is this a specific of square sails? maybe I am not getting it in the docsStill, very fun!
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  dgently7
  the control layout is a bit awkward on mobile. i find myself wanting to adjust both heading and trim continuously, but both controls are on the right so i cant use both thumbs. then the buttons to fire/ board are fiddly. tbh almost gave up then tried with keyboard and saw how it was supposed to go.
• fkealy
  Played on mobile. Very cool game and would love to have a go at future versions. Seen a lot of comments about realistic wind and sailing mechanics. To add to the latter building speed after you tack/jibe would be cool & realistic depending on conditions!Gusts is another way and you could have storms! Maybe you do already but I didn’t encounter them.
• SpyCoder77
  The art, physics and interaction design in this is genuinely beautiful
• peterdemin
  Good vibes, free things stand out. The direction of wind seems inverted. North wind is wind blowing from north to south. Also, when going into irons, the speed should drop to zero, or become negative given the sail configuration. And turns are impossible without speed.
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  _flux
  Should there be sound? I think sounds would be essential for this.Running on Linux Firefox.
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  macrocosmos
  I don’t seem to be able to stop the boat by sailing straight into the wind.
• shockwaverider
  Awesome game!! It would be nice if your mouse wheel could turn the sails instead of having to go click on the slider.
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  EstanislaoStan
  Did you get this idea from the barebones Sid Meiers Pirates battle clone that hit the frontpage a few days ago? :)
• HardwareLust
  Shocking how well this works on my beat up old Moto phone, and it's fun! Well done!
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  Skidaddle
  Very cute aesthetic and reminiscent of Pirates!I am lazy and would request a settings toggle to automatically adjust the sail angles for me for optimal speed given my bearing.
• dole
  Be interesting to see enemies take friendly fire, and possibly suppress fire if the shot on the player isn't clear?
• sssilver
  This is so awesome.If you need help building a backend for it to be multiplayer, please email me and I'd love to team up (sssilver@gmail.com), I already have something that would help.
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  embwbam
  This brings back some memories! I used to play the Ancient Art of War at Sea on my dad's Mac Plus as a kid. Having never sailed, it was fun to learn about tacking while trying to broadside spanish galleons. Years later, I lied about my experience to convince a resort to let me check out a tiny catamaran. I made it back to shore!One recommendation: make the boats not turn quite so fast. It allows you to outmaneuver other vessels by planning ahead or gaining speed ahead of time.I still don't know much about sailing, but I have a lot of kitesurfing experience. Do boats really travel that slowly downwind? I assume that crosswind is faster, but downwind should still move at the speed of the wind.
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  cfontes
  Great one, love the astetics and gameplay.Only confusing part is healing, I don't know my health or how much healing I need to be back to 80% or something close so I can get back into battle.Also healing takes forever.
• pryelluw
  Great game! I’m bookmarking it and coming back. Reminded me of assassins creed black flag.
• youdots
  This is inspiring to create a full on real world autonomous little sailing dude to cross the straits.
• kordlessagain
  I used Hyperia (my terminal project) to let Antigravity take control. I think it's cheating now because it has infinite ammo.Oh my, it wired up its own autopilot and is wrecking havoc now.
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  hnthrow10282910
  This is a lot of fun! I’ve been wanting to learn how to make pixel games like this myself. Any tips, resources you’d recommend ?
• zhainya
  This is great!
• JumpCrisscross
  Really cool! What did you use for the physics engine?
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  tommica
  That was so fun to play! Reminds me of sid Meier's pirates
• xboxnolifes
  If you put sail adjust ments of the opposite side of the screen from the helm on mobile, its be easier to both at once.
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  kfse
  The boat seems to go faster with the sails on the wrong side (back winded), that doesn't make a ton of physical sense to me
• mojosmojo
  As an Aubrey-Maturin lifelong re-reader, I cannot wait to play this.
• poppingtonic
  Some zig zag motions are required to maintain velocity and the combat is fun. I like it!
• anon
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• kandros
  Even on mobile is very pleasing good job!
• asturdy
  Beautiful retro art style <3
• y1n0
  This is fantasticly fun. Nice work!
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• rsvidal
  This is lovely. Well done.
• hyperionultra
  Noice. What’s the stack?
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  fallinditch
  Looks great! it's nice that you can immediately try it out
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  throwaway980-1
  so we're not using "Show HN" any more?
• thekevintang
  This is awesome!
• juleiie
  Should be multiplayer like worms io of oldSeriously it would be something seaworthy. Huge success viral probably
• CommanderData
  Very cool!!! Feels very much miniclip-esq
• jupr
  This game is super fun. Thanks.
• rcarmo
  Pretty amazing, congratulations!
• imperialdrive
  Very cool, love it!
• everyone
  Nice!Feedback..1. show keyboard mapping on the touch controls (for desktop / laptop users ideally)2. Make wind indicator much bigger and centrally located3. Make cannon cooldown much bigger and centrally located
• precompute
  Impressive. It loads so quickly! What was this made with?
• fishfasell
  Very cool
• taffydavid
  I love it!
• alexaholic
  Excellent!
• ltononro
  controls could be easier :D
• tim-star
  great game! well done.
• gaolei8888
  nice one
• deadbabe
  Would be nice if cannons didn’t fire in directions that had no clear enemies.
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