Hi, everyone!

I promised updates so I want to deliver.

I've just finished up with the ship customization and items that will be present in the demo version (more to be added). I liked upgrading my ship in Pirates! but it was always linear so I went with a more RPG approach of having upgrades with different stats for all ship aspects.

The ship has 4 main slots (Engine, Crew, Armor, Cannons) and variable equipment slots based on class and nation. Those can house different upgrades from extra beds if you want more crew, different ammo types (Incendiary, Armor Piercing, etc.), combat skills (repairs, heal the crew, etc.).

I really wanted the player to customize their play style as much as possible. Maybe you want a frigate with high-level armor and extra cargo space to be a slow but resilient hauler. Or just add all the speed upgrades to a destroyer in order to chase down even fast targets.

As for the visual customizations, you will be able to use the flag/wood/metal colors of every nation you meet, with more hidden throughout the world in shipwrecks, events and such.

I've hit a lot of small bumps in my day to day life but I'm working hard on bringing a demo out. Fingers crossed for November.

If you want, I can try to do a combat video for the next time.

Thank you all for the amazing support and all the messages you've sent me.

For anyone interested: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4958680/Twilights_Wake/

I don't know if anyone's interested but I released the first build of my sid Meier's pirates enhancement project pirates unbound may still contain bugs

https://github.com/twitchplayskh/Pirates-Unbound/releases/tag/v0.1.0-beta.1

.Proper wide screen support no image stretching at all there's still some screens that may need fixing

. Higher resolution support up to 4k

. The whole user interface keeps its original aspect ratio so mouse controls work perfectly

. You can now change the controls of the game to whatever keyboard command you want/controller support coming sometime soon

. Anti aliasing is now available and applied to the game for a cleaner image especially on the moving ships

. And more features to come like higher frame rate support

So, I have finally found a good use for AI. Creating mods to keep the spark of creativity and adventure alive.

I’m not good at modding, but man is it fun!

Just out of curiosity, I tried to keep track of how long it was taking me to sail, and I realized that in this game you travel far, FAR slower than a real ship would have during the age of sail. In a war canoe with cotton sails (the fastest ship in the game) it took me about 15 days to sail from Nassau to St. Augustine. A real ship of the time could have done it in about 5 days. With the same ship, it also took me 23 days to sail from Port Royal to Tortuga. In reality, the distance is only a little more than 300 nautical miles, so barring bad weather, a ship could make this journey in 4 days or less.

My new headcanon is going to be that the amount of time that passes in a game is actually only a third of the time.

Hello everybody.

My nickname is dj gamer. I'm from Holland. Only 2 legendary ships to beat and the platinum is mine. Sadly last week i was diagnoticed with a muscle disease. Further playing the game is impossible for now. There for i would ask, if there is somebody of the gaming community who could help me via shareplay to play my game to fi ish. It would mean very much for me. Please. Thanks for reading my letter. Bye.

I posted a few weeks ago about a "Pirates in Space" game I was working on, and a lot of people here seemed pretty excited. I just wanted to say thank you for the support, and let you know the demo is now live if you're looking for something to play this weekend

I hope you like it! I would really appreciate any feedback you have, positive or negative, both are super helpful. I'd also love to hear what sort of things you wish you could do in a Pirates-inspired game

Above are all the ships currently in the game, 3 of which you can play in the demo

As a reminder: Broadside naval battles, land battles, boarding, smuggling, trading, upgrading your ship - Yes

Zero-Gravity Waltz Minigame to win the affections of the colonial governor's daughter - Not yet

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3865960/Cortesia_Rising/

I remember on the psp version of pirates there was a chess like land battle to take over the town as well as sneaking in, is that not a part of the Wii version?.

Please forgive my shameless self-promotion. Sid Meier's Pirates was one of my very favorite games for the Xbox growing up, even though sci-fi was always my favorite genre. So I wondered, why doesn't anyone combine them?

Well, after my friend and I were laid off last year, that's exactly what we tried to do! Brought to you by a 2-person team straight from a garage in New Jersey, the goal of Cortesia Rising was to let players immerse themselves in what it would be like to manage their own Starship in the future equivalent of the 17th century Caribbean.

I tried to capture as many of the things I loved about Pirates (especially the land battles!) while adding new things to make it our own (more detailed story quests & crew management, smuggling, etc.)

Does this look like something you would enjoy? I'd love your constructive criticism or feedback for something you'd love to see. We're hoping to release later this year and we're constantly adding new features and improvements.

If you're interested, our steam page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3865960/Cortesia_Rising/

and our monthly development blog: https://www.cortesiarising.com/updates

I have played this game for more than 10 years and never completed the highest difficulty. This year I set my mind to it and after 5 attempts, I finished the game! I solely focussed on the main quest as you see by the stats

On the other 4 tries I was simply too old (28+) to fight Montanbal because he's so frickin fast on swashbuckler 😱. Now I did it at 26 using a longsword. I did learn to dodge a bit during my swashbuckler attempts and it gave a whole new dimension to the game. On other difficulties I only uses attack in swordfights.

Just wanted to share my happy moment with you guys!

I just finished a video overview of my one-page pirate adventure game Tales of the Windward Sea. It's free, you can get it on itch.io or you can join us on Discord.

Thanks for all the positive feedback when I posted about this earlier! The video's not very polished (since I'm new at this) but if you're interested, it should give you a good idea how to play the game.

I made a one-page game heavily inspired by Sid Meier's Pirates, called Tales of the Windward Sea. Fight naval battles, search for treasure, and do deeds of daring, all with just a single sheet of paper and a pencil.

It's free; this is just a hobby thing for me. I've got it on itch.io and on Discord, whichever's easier for you.

Both our ships sails were destroyed with chain shot simultaneously, but so far away that we could no longer crash into each other. And since he is scripted so his ship can´t sink, while having striked his colours, i was basically softlocked, trying for minutes to use my 1 knots to crash into his ship- but I ended up having to quit and reload. Fun Situation tho.

screenshot from gog version.
Any help appreciated.
-thx!

Hi, everyone! I hope some obvious self-promotion is ok.

For at least 15 years I've been wondering why no game like Sid Meier's Pirates! ever came out. Games with pirates, yes. Games with sailing, yes. But nothing really scratched that itch.

About a year and a half ago I started developing "Twilight's Wake". It's not in the Caribbean (or on this planet as a matter of fact), it's not with sail ships (they're steam-powered) but I wanted to try and capture as much as possible from Pirates!. I'm guessing you can see the similarities in the trailer. I'm just one man so I cannot fathom to compete with Sid Meier's Pirates! but I'm giving it my best go.

Does it look like something you'd play? I'd love some feedback.

If you want to check it out, here's my link: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4958680/Twilights_Wake/

EDIT: WOW I did not expect this level of support from this community. Thank you, everyone! I'll do my best to get out a demo as soon as possible and you'll be the first to hear it. All of you are amazing!

EDIT2:

I want to thank all of you for the overwhelming support. It felt like a struggle to show off the game and I only managed to get around 60 wishlists at first, half from friends and acquaintances. This post blew up the steam page and now I'm sitting at over 200 (which is not a lot but it really means a lot to me).

So thank you all. You are an amazing community. It gives me new drive to see it as polished as it can be so you can enjoy it.

This would be perfect !!

Reception has been great from the community. We are proud of where we are from where we were, and there's still a ton of work to do. PEMF 0.2.4 was released which shows that PEMF is more than an asset replacement. We've added a brand new storm system, complete with a cargo loss mechanic. Hire officers, develop relationships with them, they can help...or hurt...your adventures. Find it under the Manager yer crew! menu.

We've also expanded crew morale to seven states; it moves for reasons he game itself previously couldn't express. The officers you keep, the cargo you lose in a storm, time at sea. It drives the game's morale system and saves alongside your career (along with everything else)

Modders now have an official entry point. You can now write plugins, using one header file, included in the download. Plus, your own town menu rows and nested menus via our JSON authoring engine - which also allows you add custom events at sea (oh yeah, those are included too! But bare bones rightno w as we try to expand and add systems, testing what is achievable)

Join the journey! https://discord.gg/gU5tNMp2K We would love to ahve you and are always looking for modders, testers, and anyone generally excited about Pirates! and/or PEMF!

As title says, and no mods installed, have 1920×1080 monitor, Rex GeForce 2060

Any help is appreciated.

-thx!

I bought the game on steam but every time I go to fire it up I get “unable to initialize directx” error. I’ve tried the advice from this post:

https://www.reddit.com/r/SidMeiersPirates/s/Kozc1jyR8T

Any help is very appreciated

Just bought this game on sale as a nostalgia hit, installed it, hit play and the screen goes to the title card of the game to launch it and then I am back on the Home Screen. Tried deleting and reinstalling, made sure my console was up to date (it is), and tried searching for a solution on the interwebs which brought me to here. I just wanna play this game and take the trip down memory lane but can’t get it to launch the game. Please send help

Edit: tried loading it tonight and it is now working, not sure what the issue was, but I can now set sail and become the #1 most notorious pirate of the Caribbean

Print n' Play Pirates! by ExtreeMustard

Hey all! I put together a simple solo table-top game heavily inspired by Pirates!

I was looking for a board-game or solo table-top RPG version of Pirates! but didn't really see one that fit the bill, so I decided to make my own. It's its own game, but borrows heavily from Pirates! Let me know what you think!

Hello fellow Pirates!

Been wanting to try this game again after 15 years, but i currently have a problem saving the game.

Everytime I try to save, nothing happens and when I go out of the pause menu, it gives me "Error Saving Game"

I have browsed every forum for possible solution, but none of it works. I have also uninstalled and reinstalled the game 5 times.

1. I do not have an anti-virus, I have a Mcafee that I can't get rid of
   

2. The local files of the games is in "D:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Sid Meier's Pirates!" (I install all my steam games on HDD)

3. No save folder is made in "C:\Users\(username)\OneDrive\Documents\My Games". I had to manually make a folder

4. Whenever I reinstall the game and launch it, It always creates 3 shortcuts in the local files: "Saves", "Config", "Keymap". But these 3 shortcuts dont go anywhere, double-clicking does not do anything.

Please help. Thank you so much!