After some days, I decided to come back again to finish the game and I did it. Cozy ending to a grim story haha, I like it, the lighthouse will protect us :)

This time I pay more attention to reading the dialogs and you actually get told what to do but not as an order, more like “you could do this” until you directly get told you need to store 25 of each item. Which maybe can escape our attention at times, like me days ago haha.

If you really want to avoid this for distracted players, maybe put in some part of the game the “Objective” button or something like “Current Objective” in the UI or pause menu, which isn’t needed but as an idea

(Also, this time I didn’t get a random radio dialog, where they say something like “it’s coming, ahhh!” or something like that while playing, I couldn’t read it last time because my boat crashed and I was tired)

About the movement, now that I read tips about how to move the boat correctly, it felt better and was easier to do stuff. I think I’m not much of multitask in this game because at maximum I could do like 3 boats at the same time, maybe because I got a bit scared of breaking them haha, it’s great to see that they don’t crash with each other and it’s fun to buy boats, seeing that they got better stats the more you buy it’s a nice touch

About the gameplay, it’s comfortable to play, to have it as a idle game can be fun, as for speedrunning, I don’t think it can be that nice, to be able to move your camera downwards the dialog can get in the way at the start and if you get a lot of items stored in the lighthouse, going to the left can be hard since you have the item table over the arrow. The RNG is ok, you can restart early which is good

Outside the speedrun things I said above, my only “problem” is that you need to do a lot of clicking to move the coins, only 10 per click in the lighthouse and when you want to move a lot of money or objects to get quick money, it can get tiring for the hand/finger, so would be nice if you could put a number and buy/pick that amount, moving all the money you need for the items takes long or as I said, it’s tiring. Which isn’t too bad, just as QoL would be nice

Well, I think it’s I have to say this time, I finished the game and it was fun to try to speedrun it to see the end. Last time I had an ok time, today was a good time now that I know how to move the boat and the kind of depth you can have when you want to optimize the game haha, good game! ^^

A great entry, but it's way to long and I'm speaking from exprience, also I would love a fast forward button as you can wait for a ship to sail for only so long befor you fall asleep, you are told early to supply the lighthouse, but you are not really told what supplying will acompish which seams fishy. But I can't be too hard on something made in typescript :V.

Great entry and amazing this was built without engine. My main issue would definitely be the speed of the game, but apart from that, it was a great entry. Beautiful art and atmosphere with a very intriguing start. Fantastic job!

Cool game with great aesthetics and feel.

• Amazing that this was built without an engine.
• Sometimes when a ship would dock, it was difficult to click on the ship to navigate it, as the click would register on the dock instead.
• The ship docking sound is great. Allows me to go to another tab, and come back when I need to do something.
• Gives the feeling of an idle management game.

Well done overall!

This sure is impressive!

First off, great story, the most intense one I've seen in a game jam game

Second, the art is absolutely beautiful, truly stunning what you have done here

My suggestion ffr is to increase the speed of the game in general, i get its a boat simulator, but its also a game, and i don't have all day!

All in all, fantastic work!

Keep making games!

astounding graphics, very nice concept, i like ur gameplay. Now, it's ur turn to try & rate us. Thank u. 

I liked the game even with my attention span of a 2 month kid

Really impressive game. I would have liked it more if I could move faster on boat

An impressive amount of depth and attention to detail! Great concept to build on, just recommend focusing on the pacing!

the game looks and sounds amazing. it's really impressive doing this with javascript and html.

i also loved the map, an amazing concept

my only problems is that the game feels to slow and could give some more information for the player as to what to do - what items should i store in the lighthouse etc

This is really good. However, boats are way too slow. I think it would help if there was a way for the player to change the game speed at any time kinda like how it is in Rimworld.

not my style of game but it is really apparent that a lot of work and attention to detail was put in this one!

I have just one point of feedback, the camera felt really slow, also I wish I could just move it around with wasd.

good job!

Took me like an hour to "survive the storm", but that's fine, I just played it like an idle game while watching youtube. I honestly really like these sorts of management games, especially when they feature any sort of economy systems. Don't know why, just think they're neat. Also certainly didn't expect to see a game with the 'Sid Meiers Pirates' gameplay loop of running a shipping company.

The fact that I did play an hour should tell you all you need to know. I really enjoyed it. Audio design was minimal, but good, same with the visuals, and the gameplay loop was relaxing and very nice.

Well done!

I really like the art and the concept of trading and building a fleet. I just feel like it's too slow paced though, especially for a game jam game. I'm sitting almost blowing at the screen to make my ships sail faster. I also felt like the theme was not very incorporated, maybe there should be storms often to quicken up the pace of the game. It's a beautiful game with the art and clouds and I like the sound effects and music. It's very polished and I'm impressed how much you've managed to do in a week.

Good work!

The beginning does feel a bit slow, and the movements of the boat a bit tricky, but I love the presentation and the mood

Definitely gotta finish it haha

I'll preface by saying RTS usually isn't something I go for, but adding the time leaderboard on the side enticed me to really get into how the game works.

The ambiance is relaxing despite the sort of bleak story, and the foggy visuals accentuate both sides of that comparison to me, so it felt really well put together.

Moving my ships did feel a bit inconsistent. I think there might be a check trying to stop me from drawing a path directly over land or a town, but it also happened a lot when just clicking, so it felt somewhat random at times whether my command to move a ship would go through. I did also face the issue of getting my ships stuck under towns in my earlier runs, but it is avoidable.

I do like the randomization aspect, it really facilitates on-the-fly decision making and routing when doing runs. Though there are some truly evil seeds in there (no-one buying anything at the 4 nearest lighthouse shops) so I definitely cut some runs short just by looking at the map. In particular if one of the items needed was exclusive to a certain town on the top-middle-right.

Randomizing the ships on the other hand was interesting but a bit frustrating at times. In practice I often would just look to see if I got a good map, and deal with the hand I was dealt as far as ships came. A particularly not great first ship I got could only hold one barrel of water while also not being too fast. and I'm honestly not sure how good armour could be since I just avoided land wherever I could? Maybe it'd help me brute my way to that far off town if I tried it.

All that being said I appreciated the humor in the opening journal, and the chance to flex my routing brain muscles. I maybe could've done better if I was willing to deal with more ships at a time; but here's my best:

Congratulations on the game by the way! It is impressive, even moreso that it's engineless.

P.S. Appreciated all the random sea-based pun names.

The fact that this was made in HTML, Svelte, Typescript is madness. Everything looks amazing and if you said it was using a "big 3" game engine I'd believe it. The ambience is also set pretty well. It's been mentioned before, but the ship speed is a bit slow. That's pretty much the only critique I have for this. Really innovative to use svelte for this, and I didn't know you could do that.