Grow Your Boat

Destroy sea monsters and other ships to level up your ship. Run your ship into surrendered ships to grow your personal pirate fleet!

This is my submission for the Kenney Game Jam, the theme of which was Growth. I looked through the assets on the Kenney website and was drawn to the pirate ships, so I decided to make an auto-attacker game where you grow not only your ship, but your own pirate fleet.

It was probably too ambitious an idea for a 48 hour game jam. 24 more hours would have allowed for more polish, bug fixing, balancing, and complete systems. Ideally, I would have liked to have had in between run progression, better scaling on the power ups, and quite a few other things. But alas, this is where I landed. Maybe I'll work towards a fuller version if this project gains enough interest.

If you are struggling to progress, I found an easy path to take to get strong quickly is:

Increase Attack Rate until your cannon sounds like a machine gun -> increase cannons until you feel like you are mowing things down -> from there, increase health if you get low, otherwise increase turn speed a couple times for better evasive maneuvers -> add more cannons lol, just be careful not to crash your computer ;)

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Anyways, it was a fun idea, and I had fun making it up until the final stretch. Now the only thing I care to enjoy is some sleep. Good night.