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A jam submission

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A story based RPG set in the Tasman Sea during the early 1800's
Submitted by iAmStos — 2 days, 3 hours before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Historical Accuracy#64.2144.214
Thematic Relevancy#343.9293.929
Overall#383.2143.214
Audio#432.7862.786
Gameplay#452.7862.786
Graphics#463.1433.143

Ranked from 14 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

On what countries' history is the game based ?
New Zealand and Australia

Put anything you want to be immediately visible on your jam page here:
Some of the stories from around the Tasman Sea and Southern Ocean from 1800-1840

Credit the makers of any assets you used below:
All the music comes from the California Folk Music Project collection. Captain Leighton Robinson, Alex Barr, Arthur Brodeur, and Leighton McKenzie performing Anglo-American ballads, shanties, and sea songs on November 12, 1939, collected by Sidney Robertson Cowell in Belvedere, California. (Public Domain)
Compiled and Edited by Hugh Benson
Font - Kavivanar-Regular by Tharique Azeez (Open Font License)

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Submitted

Idk if it was a bug but I didn't seem to be able to complete the quests that it was asking. (It was telling me to get everyone back to Sidney but it didn't work)

Overall, very nice presentation, and I liked the shanty in the background :)

Submitted

Overall I really liked this one.

Gameplay-wise: there was one location I didn't find, and the stranded sealers' quest doesn't tell you where to go next which didn't help. There didn't seem to be an endgame either once you finish the quests? I think it maybe also suffered a bit from needing to do a full replay when you run out of supplies, since it's basically a lot of running through the same content in the same way to find a little bit more endgame stuff. That said, everything ran very smoothly and I thought the logs were interesting and well written in general. 

The history was well presented and I liked it a lot: no real complaints there. It would've been nice to find some way to get more alternative viewpoints, especially indigenous ones, in there if there was a more extended version.

Submitted

A cool way to learn about history, I really liked this game

Submitted

I liked the graphics and music (though I could barely hear it). Sailed around the world and bought some supplies, went broke and starved eventually. Cute little experience. :)

Submitted

Sailed around not really knowing what I was doing . The graphics for the map and ship are nice and the old sea shanty recordings are interesting - although quite low in volume.

Didn't realise the French had a settlement in New Zealand so game was informative as well.

Submitted

The gameplay idea is pretty cool. I completed 11 out of 12 quests then ran out of supplies :( was just missing one island which probably held that quest.

Submitted

It's cool ! Like the sea shanty ! The graphics are nice, gameplay idea is quite interesting.

Submitted

Nice introduction to that moment of history. Pretty cool gameplay idea. It was a bit hard to find cities sometime.