The Greedy Pirates

by rolly
Overall★★★★★★★★★★4.31
Fun★★★★★★★★★★4.29
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★4.46
Theme★★★★★★★★★★4.08
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★4.15
Audio★★★★★★★★★★4.29
Humor★★★★★★★★★★4.33
Mood★★★★★★★★★★4.19
As the proud captain of the ship, you have to make decisions. Some of them are good, some of them are bad. Spoiler alert: your decision to unload all canons from the ship to load more treasure chests was a bad idea.

Your goal is now to travel back home, only 1500 kilometers (932 miles) away! Think you can make it? Of course, other ships have heard of the great treasures you are transporting, and they prefer to see them deep in the sea rather than in the hands other than theirs.

The Greedy Pirates is a typing game. You control your crew, calling them by name, and give instructions. Everything is explained in the "How to Play" section in the menu.

Controls

All interactions are done by typing. Tip: You only need the letters A-Z. No need to type the spaces, dots and other marks.

Changelog

Everything was done in 48 hours, except the following items. Both versions are available, but I would recommend playing the fixed version, as it doesn't bring any major feature, but fixes some items:
- Fixed a blocking issue when a pirate name was called while this pirate was climbing the mast or a ladder.
- Reviewed the how to play screen to avoid text overlapping in some screen resolutions.
- Added a note in the how to play screen to recommend playing in full screen.
- Fixed an issue with the leaderboard api, that wouldn't properly insert the ' character in the database.

__Have fun, share your high scores and leave some feedback! :heart: __

screenshot

Comments27

Nathan Wiles
Nathan Wiles4 Apr 2022, 08:42
This is such a clever idea! I would love to play a full length game like FTL issuing commands this way. You actually feel like the captain prioritizing where to send his men. Great work on this.
JulienLussiez
JulienLussiez4 Apr 2022, 09:30
Well done! The concept works really well. It's nice to use only the keyboard. There's a lot to do and graphics and sound design are good. It's immersive with the enemy ship that comes in the background. I enjoyed it. Nice work. I suppose you could add more stuff to do in the future !
wavertron
wavertron4 Apr 2022, 09:52
Impressive art and sound, solid mechanic. Great job
OadT
OadT4 Apr 2022, 10:01
Maybe you should make clear that the pirate name you give yourself is for the leader board. I thought it would be super smart to call myself Q in a typing game :laughing:

Love the graphics and music of this game! Getting water out of the ship doesn't seem to work for me, but maybe the moral was to low or something like that. One thing I noticed is that it can be difficult to see whether you have to type "the" or "that" if you ship has a lot damage, but maybe that problem only occured because I did not play in fullscreen mode.

Really funny entry!
Rolly
Rollyauthor4 Apr 2022, 10:10
@OadT I renamed you OadT in the leaderboard, let me know if you want another name instead :wink: Congrats on your high score by the way!

I should indead recommend to play in full screen, the letters are a bit too small by default.

The pump evacuates the water as fast as one hole makes its level increase, so if you have 2 holes in the hull, the water level will still increase. But indeed the morale also has an impact on this!

Thanks for your feedback! :)
kuro
kuro4 Apr 2022, 14:57
Hey Rolly.

Fun game! I see you changed the graphics style, and it looks good. The whole screen works together quite nicely. I'd do something about the ship rotation, bc I think it turns too much. No other nitpicks apart from that. I like the command system a lot.

Also I'm one of the Rollys on the leaderboard. I thought it'd be smart and witty to use your name. Didn't know it was for the leaderboard :shrug:
Pitxardo
Pitxardo4 Apr 2022, 15:57
Great game! The idea is quite original and funny to play. I cannot find any con to this game. Congratulations!
AppoxGames
AppoxGames4 Apr 2022, 22:32
This was amazing! You really felt like a captain giving out orders. The game felt really polished and I enjoyed playing this one.

Well done!
OminusGalaxy444 Apr 2022, 22:44
the graphics style is nice looking. originally i thought the game was too easy and then it kept getting more difficult. it was really fun to play
the neon shark
the neon shark4 Apr 2022, 22:44
Phenomenal idea and execution! Great way to take a typing game and give it some strategy and a fun story. I think my only criticism is making the problems that need addressing more "obvious". When water was filling up in my ship, I was like "oh no duh, gotta clear that out". But when I had some holes in my ship that were rather small, I just assumed I'd be fine? I wasn't fine haha. Essentially the only way to know that an order needed to be shouted was to start calling out someone's name and see if there were new options. Overall though, this is an excellent project.
Delightfullymad
Delightfullymad4 Apr 2022, 22:49
This is go good. really fun to play, looks great and good music to boot. Great job!
Billnotic4 Apr 2022, 22:55
Very neat game, I reached 1488 when a bug appeared where typing wouldn't work no matter what I typed for the last letter. It was unfortunate because I had a really good flow going. Had a lot of fun, only real suggestion I could give is maybe add a way to shoot back at other enemy pirates and add more background graphics, but given the short time from you had to make this I think your game turned out really well.

Great job!
Eli Haun
Eli Haun4 Apr 2022, 23:04
Very nice! I like the idea, and had a lot of fun (even if I didn't get very fall). I played the compo version, so I am not sure if you fixed this, but it would be nice if you tell someone to fix, they would fix OTHER holes after. Just like I said, I played the compo version. Very nice!
Dorren
Dorren5 Apr 2022, 05:06
such a unique concept, I really enjoyed it!
lantto5 Apr 2022, 11:35
Very cool take on the typing game genre! You typing to shout commands make so much sense. Great graphics, sound and mood. As another commenter said, a FTL game in this style would be awesome.
atomicptr
atomicptr5 Apr 2022, 17:26
Very interesting concept, I enjoyed it.
Sir. Syko
Sir. Syko5 Apr 2022, 21:45
What an amazing game! :astonished: I can't believe this was made in 48h hahah :joy: Nothing to point out I had a lot of fun and found it very nice in terms of art and sound, design and gameplay :smile: Just wow! Great job! :smile:
theslate
theslate6 Apr 2022, 20:10
Great game! Excited for the new Monkey Island game? :)
Rolly
Rollyauthor7 Apr 2022, 06:35
@theslate :o I didn't know, but now I'm definitely excited! It's been such a long time, I should play all of them once again!
Wouter52
Wouter5210 Apr 2022, 19:21
Most innovative game I have played this LD, love your game! The graphics are cute, the music is fitting great to your prirate theme and the whole game feels solid from start to end.

I love how he says Cr*p at the end :laughing:
commanderstitch
commanderstitch22 Apr 2022, 01:16
Super fun game! loved the communication aspect of the game.
boaromayox
boaromayox24 Apr 2022, 05:25
Excellent gameplay! Good, innovative use of using the keyboard instead of a set of controls to command your troops into keeping the ship well-manned. I do wish the commands were shorter, or at least, a bit easier to handle, but I'm guessing that's part of the challenge.

Good job! :thumbsup:
Tiny Pig24 Apr 2022, 11:50
This is my favourite game of the jam. Are you going to make a full game out of it? One of my favourite parts was the music.
Rolly
Rollyauthor27 Apr 2022, 07:23
@tiny-pig I'm actually considering it - I brainstormed a bit to see how I could build on top of the current gameplay, and I have a few ideas that could turn out well :) I don't know if a full version of it could come soon, but I'll make sure to let you know if this happens!

Thanks everyone for your feedback :)
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