Ahoy Mateys!

Lord O' Pirates is a pixel art top-down action pirate ship battling roguelite! It started as an entry for the Kenney Jam back in 2022, and I've been working on it part time ever since. I even managed to pick up a pixel artist along the way and completely overhaul and beautify all of the game art!

The game is inspired by roguelite's like Vampire Survivors, and the pirate ship battling games of old like Sid Meier's Pirates! Unlike a typical VS-style game, you have a lot more control over your ship's movement and rotation, allowing you to aim and evade in more engaging ways. The goal was to find a middle ground between VS-style gameplay, which some find a little too passive, and a more traditional action roguelite/bullet hell, which some might find too much, or at least too much to play while watching TV. In my many hours of testing and playing, I've found it to be a game I CAN play while multi-tasking, but also a game where sometimes I want to give it my full attention to really try and beat a specific challenge I am stuck on.

Pirates and the ocean also carry with them a sense of adventure, and so I wanted to make the game lean a bit into exploration, finding meaningful treasure, and learning the layouts of the maps. To achieve this, the game includes lots of unlockables, many of which are unlocked through exploration. I also love a game with secrets, so there's a few of those hidden in the mix as well.

I've really tried to have fun with it and put a lot of references into it to things I personally enjoy, whether they are other video games, anime, historical figures, etc. The game is also pretty funny at times, or at least I think so haha, so be sure to read flavor text!

This release is technically the beginnings of a larger game. You could call it a demo, but those who have play tested it ended up thinking it was the entire game. There's hours of content to experience and unlock, and because of that, I think of it moreso as a free version of a game, which will eventually have a larger paid version. 

You can check out the itch page here: https://oneflowman.itch.io/lordopirates

Below is our teaser trailer for the game... That is me in the trailer. I have a history of making music videos and whatnot, so I kind of couldn't help myself to have some fun with it lol. My intention was to go for a Saturday morning cartoon toy commercial vibe haha