[HN Gopher] Show HN: Sail a historical full-rigged ship in real ...
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Show HN: Sail a historical full-rigged ship in real global weather
This is a simulator of a frigate from about 1800. It has realistic
physics, tuned to match historical performance. The UI is based
around commands given in period naval language. Rather than use the
current weather, it has a full year's weather data (for 1980 -
taken from
https://psl.noaa.gov/data/gridded/data.ncep.reanalysis2.html). This
allows the weather to change realistically under time acceleration.
To learn the basics of handling a square-rigged ship, start the
"Harbour" scenario, click on the instructions button at the bottom
left, and follow the instructions to try to get out of Portsmouth
harbour. To go for a long sail, start the "The World" scenario.
Open the map, control+click anywhere on it to move there;
control+click on the compass at the bottom left to turn the ship to
that heading; then activate travel acceleration at the bottom
right. It's a simulator more than a game - think MS flight
simulator. There's no sinking, but you can lose sails or spars in
high winds. It's windows only. This was released a couple of years
ago, but this is an updated version from the end of January. See
the devlog (https://thapen.itch.io/painted-ocean/devlog) for the
changes. You can also find some discussions there on historical
sailing performance numbers.
Author : Lefuz
Score : 50 points
Date : 2023-02-24 20:52 UTC (2 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (thapen.itch.io)
(TXT) w3m dump (thapen.itch.io)
| webnrrd2k wrote:
| This is really cool!
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| I'm a few books into the Aubry/Maturin novels by Patrick O'Brien
| (highly recommended! The movie Master & Commander is based on
| them).
|
| This should help to get a better feel for the ships and the
| battles!
| davidw wrote:
| I'm wondering if the game requires you to know all the sail
| names. That could be a big impediment to doing things in it! It
| certainly adds some difficulty in even reading those books.
| Lefuz wrote:
| Yes, those books were one of the main inspirations for making
| this, and a lot of stuff in them made more sense after working
| on it.
| focusedone wrote:
| Sweet! I finished the Hornblower series late last year and
| couldn't find anything like this. Can't wait to try it!
| cyanbane wrote:
| Very cool idea. Can't wait to try.
| holtkam2 wrote:
| This looks awesome. Will definitely try it out.
|
| Also, does anyone remember Empire Total War from back around
| 2011? One of my favorite games of all time despite its millions
| of issues. This brought back some fond memories of high school,
| getting back from class and running back home to battle some 18th
| century French warships...
| dt5702 wrote:
| I love this!
| kunwon1 wrote:
| I've always been interested in sailing. I'm from Illinois. I once
| went to Jamaica and sailed a small catamaran for several hours on
| a protected bay and had great fun. For years afterwards I was
| reading sailing textbooks and dreaming about it, but given my
| location, I don't want to put money into it
|
| I've played some sailing games and had fun, but they weren't
| simulations. I've never tried a sailing simulator. This one looks
| great, and I'll try it out, if I can make it run on Linux. (I
| notice you say that it's Windows-only, I take that as a
| challenge)
| worldsayshi wrote:
| You might be interested in sailing on such a ship irl then:
| https://www.gotheborg.se/
| kunwon1 wrote:
| My main interest is in doing it solo, I don't think I'd enjoy
| it nearly as much with other people around. While this does
| look interesting, it doesn't appeal to me in the same way
| swsdsailor wrote:
| Looks great! I had a very similar idea but with a sloop, I look
| forward to playing this.
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