Very ambitious game for a jam! Boat animations and the telescope option were amazing. I really enjoyed sailing and navigating around. It was a little hard to understand what I was doing, and the game loop itself lacked some structure, but I think that's something you could easily fix if you had more time. Only other thing would be to think about your control scheme... it felt a little unnatural to go from two hands on the keyboard to mouse when trading.
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Thanks so much for you kind words - I think it was probably too ambitious! I entirely agree that it's rather unstructured and unintuitive right now. There definitely needs to be some in-game guidance and explanation, especially at the start. I also originally intended to have keyboard control for the trading overlay but decided I could implement mouse control much quicker so just went with that - it's certainly not ideal.