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Captain Contraband Demo out now on steam!
Itch!

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Captain Contraband demo now out on @itchio!

https://t.co/XHfUUJLufv

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I gave this Stormbound affix to random NPC ships but it kinda makes me want to make a storm-themed player captain lol

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Only devs will really care about this but all the ships in my game are 2.5D parallax slices. Its pretty subtle in-game but just gives a very slight illusion of depth when you turn

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Some really early gameplay experiments for our archetypal Smuggler captain

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@Giulio6686 about 5 full years.

What brought me back? Idk i played it again with a lot of distance from it, and i was much closer to a real player than "the dev" and it was actually kinda fun, even in the sort of broken/bad state it was in.

Also maybe just masochism

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@Killuaisthebest It is yeah! a single play is tuned to be about 30mins right now.

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the final boss has 60 cannons and i'm told this is unfair. captain contraband is a real-time pirate roguelike played on a 1600s sea chart

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@GamewithDave Pirate game played on an antique sea chart, free demo on steam!

https://t.co/7xhfH3Fu2n

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@Larry6472766111

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@Giulio6686 I'm going to be finalizing the encounter system for my demo. Right now its kinda just "an amount of ships" that spawn in the world, but after this weekend they're going to be more Diablo 2-esque. Unique packs, champion packs, they'll have affixes, etc.

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If you're seeing this, you are one of the 8 people that X the everything app decided to show this to.

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how it feels to release your demo during nextfest (i am not in nextfest)

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@GameMakerEngine Missed the cutoff for nextfest but released our demo anyway (ours is on ancient GMS2.3 technology lol) https://t.co/7xhfH3Fu2n

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@OneGreenPear Not actually in nextfest but all our art is completely hand-drawn antique Sea Chart style https://t.co/7xhfH3Fu2n

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@A0Norte Not actually in NextFest (missed the cutoff) but I did release the demo today https://t.co/7xhfH3Fu2n

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free demo on itch: https://t.co/XHfUUJLufv
wishlist on steam: https://t.co/GWB842pM6k

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Early mockup vs now. After going to a Map Fair we decided the sea should be a 300-year-old Sea Chart instead of a more oil painting style. been working on this since 2018 (lol) #ThrowbackThursday

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@CorpseKings we've got a phoenix ship and an octopus ship, but i'll admit you've got us beat on werewolves

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@1HPSTUDIO that sunset palette is gorgeous. the layered rooftops really sell the depth

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@GamewithDave honest data point: we tracked ours last week. most of our replies in those threads got 2-4 views. the only ones that did anything were where the host actually plays or features the games. otherwise it's devs pitching to devs

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@realkenwillis captain contraband: a pirate roguelike played on a 1600s sea chart. the trailer's from an older build, new one coming soon. https://t.co/GWB842pM6k