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The 2 game modes are free to play in browser. Come join our 245 active captains, I’d love any and all playtest feedback at this stage!
Really want to play this with a controller. Seems to me that a joystick to steer and another to adjust the sail would be really intuitive. Aside from that really fun, looking forward to future updates.
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When you can sail. Square rigger directly into the wind, that’s 100% arcade. You are of course free to make your game however you want, but false advertising doesn’t help anyone.
Actually thanks for the reminder! I’ll be adding “real wind physics” to my steam page, website header, and other marketing material. Thank you!
I hope you enjoy the bad reviews from people who expect something and don’t get it.
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I’m not a sailor at all my I just demo’d this for my dad who is. He had similar feedback I need to sit down and do a sailing mechanics audit to find a good balance between arcade/realism, I think a beam reach is supposed to be faster than downwind. But my angle of attacks could be more accurate especially for upwind sailing? Here’s currently how tinywind does it if anyone’s curious: https://tinywind.io/wiki/sailing#p…
Have a look at these [1] polar diagrams for tall sailing ships. The radial distance from the center is the theoretical boat speed and the angle is the direction that the wind is hitting the boat, with zero on the nose and 180 from the stern. Each plotted line is the boat speed for a given wind speed. They show how the square-rigged ships can't sail upwind any closer than 55 degrees or so and are fastest on a broad re…
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Thanks for checking out the game! The correlation isn’t that vague it’s actually explicitly defined here: https://tinywind.io/wiki/sailing#point-of-sail Always trying to find a balance of realism vs arcade feel on the gameplay. Let me know how you would handle sailing upwind/downwind instead, always love more suggestions!
E.g. on this link you can see a picture of how the yards on a square rigger would be set for each wind direction. https://www.facebook.com/groups/patrickobrianappreciationsoc... At no point should you (nor would it be physically possible to) set the yards in the direction of the ship. At most during sailing they would be turned maybe 45 degrees which would correspond to "close hauled" at which point you may be able t…
I do this to a certain extent for galleons on the Spanish map but should update the rest too
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Hi Tyler, realism and arcade-feel doesn’t have to be a binary thing. My big effort has been finding tasteful compromises to keep a “real” feel but still simple enough to not be frustrating and put away the game. Hope this helps! https://tinywind.io/wiki/sailing#point-of-sail
Realism and arcade are not exclusive but I also would say that the headline saying “real wind physics” is misleading. I was disappointed to see that real they are not.
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Actually thanks for the reminder! I’ll be adding “real wind physics” to my steam page, website header, and other marketing material. Thank you!
Ok, now go you’re just being obnoxious. This is childish behavior and unbecoming. I hope you enjoy the bad reviews from people who expect something and don’t get it.
This is a really fun game, congratulations on releasing it. If I could make one suggestion - it would be awesome if you could use the mouse wheel to change the orientation of your sails rather than having to move all the way over to the right of the screen to use the slider.
It does arrow left/right or a/d for tiller and arrow up/down or w/s for sail trim. If you can manage using wasd, then r will [un]furl sails. I haven't figured out the cannon button yet if there is one. Edit: r for [un]furl sails [0], also apparently fires 0. https://tinywind.io/wiki/briefing#sailing-the-ship