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A jam submission

Hoist up the ThingView project page

A one-shot RPG about sailors prentending to know what they're doing.
Submitted by Sam Armstrong Games — 22 hours, 39 minutes before the deadline
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How should this game be presented?

Reverse

Front and reverse of a single page

Spread

Left and right side of a two-page spread

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Comments

Submitted(+1)

Came for the title referencing The Longest Johns, stayed for what sounds like an absolute wild little ride of a game! 

Submitted(+1)

This is a really interesting little system you’ve created! I’d love to try it out and see how it plays some time when I get the chance. I think you’ve also got the flavour perfect- it gets me fired up to play as a bumbling shiphand! I also like that you’ve kept the premise very specific.

One thing that you could perhaps add in an ‘expanded edition’ further down the line is a GM section. Perhaps you could have random prompt tables for the complications/endings/goals/etc? Overall, great work! I’m looking forward to more haha

Developer(+2)

Thanks for the feedback and the kind words. I was really hoping to add a series of prompts, I even had a fair few written, but I had to scrap it unfortunately to fit on the page and be (mostly) readable. I definitely hope to make an extra section in the future with this stuff, even if it's just another page.

Submitted(+2)

This looks like so much fun XD Totally added it to my collection to play later. Love it!

Submitted

Neat! The background texture was a little overwhelming for me at times but I'm reading on a mobile device so maybe that is a factor.


Thanks for the game!

Developer(+1)

Cheers for the feedback. When it is printed it seems fine, at least to the people I've shown it to. I should probably make a plain text version though for exactly that scenario.