Thanks so much for checking it out! I was very much in a strange mood when inspired to make this-- reading and savouring the nostalgia of those old engineering publications (eg. r/OceanLinerArchitect). And it was a good chance to explore a number of narrative / seeded random procedural techniques.
Glad you enjoyed it :)
You're welcome Aaron. I always liked boats, believe it or not but I was drawing a ton of 2D boats sectional view as a kid, I also always been in love with plans and technical drawing, seeing the interior of those floating cities as always been a kink too. I would have love to make a visual Victorian/steampunk boat generator.
Maybe I will steal you this idea for the next procjam edition, who knows... 😁 Watabou also made a ship generator this year too
My original hope was to make a generator for those sectional views-- but I quickly realised just how complex that was (given my strengths) for now, and a narrative flavour was much closer to "doable during the time-frame". It's on my "want to do someday" things.
But I'd love to see you do a procedural ship profile thing!
Your idea was really sexy, I already see the picture, its a lot of work indeed, but I didn't see anything too complex in term of procgen. Oh you too have a "to do list", don't put too much thing in it, cause death have a list too and we are also on it :)
So maybe we will sail the highs seas on the next Procjam who knows. A U-boat generator can be cool too... without the nazis inside.
I know i'm going nerdy here, but hey, ever heard of the RV flip ? I saw that the other day, now its just my favorite ship of all time, and I think you can be interest in that.
