{"id":1997,"edition":11,"categories":35,"features":0,"size":10468,"name":"Portolani","authors":[{"name":"Ethan Smith","url":"https://onebytegone.com","twitter":"onebytegone","login":"onebytegone","gh":8900251}],"description":"<p>The 13th-century was a time of nautical innovation. The caravel was in development and early charts were being made. It’s your turn to captain an expedition to map uncharted waters and become a legendary explorer!</p>\n<p>Portolani is a turn-based puzzle game. Your goal is to visit all of the ports, exploring as much of the map as possible. A new map is released every day at 00:00 UTC.</p>\n<p>An optional leaderboard for the daily challenge is available via the NEAR testnet. If you would like to save your high score, please sign in to your testnet MyNearWallet (<a href=\"https://testnet.mynearwallet.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https://testnet.mynearwallet.com</a>)!</p>\n<p>Portolani is available on IPFS at:</p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https://aged-brook-5336.on.fleek.co\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https://aged-brook-5336.on.fleek.co</a></li>\n<li><a href=\"https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipfs/Qmc4yrTFr6tf8qnDBhPCtYQUUcBBUBomxPkT73bxhrFte7\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipfs/Qmc4yrTFr6tf8qnDBhPCtYQUUcBBUBomxPkT73bxhrFte7</a></li>\n</ul>\n<p><strong>Post mortem</strong>: <a href=\"https://onebytegone.com/articles/js13k23-portolani-post-mortem/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https://onebytegone.com/articles/js13k23-portolani-post-mortem/</a></p>\n<h3>Keyboard Controls</h3>\n<p>Arrow keys can be used for cardinal-direction (i.e. N/S/E/W) movement. For 8-point compass rose (i.e. NW/N/NE/W/E/SW/S/SE) movement:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>QWERTY: q/w/e/a/d/z/x/c</li>\n<li>AZERTY: a/z/e/q/d/w/x/c</li>\n<li>Dvorak: ’/,/./a/e/;/q/j</li>\n<li>Number Pad: 7/8/9/4/5/1/2/3</li>\n</ul>\n<h3>Hints</h3>\n<ol>\n<li>It’s best to sail broad reach (45deg to wind heading) or beam reach (90deg to wind heading).</li>\n<li>Your visits to a port may grant a bonus:</li>\n</ol>\n<ul>\n<li>⊛ (Local Crew): Grants advanced knowledge about fish, pirates, and ports</li>\n<li>⇶ (Nav Log): Grants more insight into wind conditions</li>\n<li>≊ (Sounding Line): Gives better understanding about the location of land</li>\n</ul>\n<h3>Music</h3>\n<p>The soundtrack is based on “Mirie it is while sumer ilast”, a 13th century song about the desire for summer in the face of coming cold weather.</p>\n<h3>Decentralized</h3>\n<ul>\n<li>NEAR Contract Source: <a href=\"https://github.com/onebytegone/js13k23-portolani/tree/master/near-contract\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https://github.com/onebytegone/js13k23-portolani/tree/master/near-contract</a></li>\n<li>NEAR Contract Deployment: <a href=\"https://explorer.testnet.near.org/accounts/js13k23-portolani.testnet\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https://explorer.testnet.near.org/accounts/js13k23-portolani.testnet</a></li>\n</ul>\n<p>Automatically deployed via CI/CD to IPFS using Fleek</p>\n","source":"onebytegone/js13k23-portolani","stars":0,"comments":[{"at":347262514,"author":"Paul Bredenberg","login":"pbredenberg","gh":590757,"text":"<p>Such a fun casual game of the daily variety.!</p>\n"},{"at":347280039,"author":"Kevin Muncie","login":"kmuncie","gh":582755,"text":"<p>A delightful game I have enjoyed playing each day. Surprisingly complex mechanics encourage exploration and resource management. The audio is on theme and pleasant without being distracting during longer play sessions.</p>\n"},{"at":347410929,"author":"Viljami Peltola","login":"viljami","gh":2721718,"url":"https://www.linkedin.com/in/viljamipeltola/","twitter":"viljamipeltola","text":"<p>Beautiful puzzle game execution. I love how effort was put to make it a full game and that I found my self wanting to play a few rounds. Didn’t always get exactly what I am doing but the casual feel of it was refreshing - even when I didn’t finish a level.</p>\n","games":["Entitled"]},{"at":347527414,"author":"Tiago Correia","login":"dosaki","gh":1957450,"url":"https://dosaki.net/","text":"<p>I wish I had reached thie game earlier.</p>\n<p>The theme plays so well into the puzzle mechanic of this game.\nThe art style is very simple (like flavourful info) and it works so well.</p>\n<p>The puzzles look super fun. I’ve bookmarked this so I can do it every day :D</p>\n","games":["Swords & Quills"]},{"at":347533025,"author":"Ryan Tyler","login":"tyler6699","gh":50468,"url":"https://carelesslabs.co.uk","text":"<p>Great entry, nice graphics and music, simple but challenging game play.</p>\n<p>Really nice that you show the map after each game is over and show how far has been travelled and how much of the map was revealed. The Rivers and Streams were stressful, knowing its a long way back along some of them with little fish left.</p>\n<p>Good job.</p>\n","games":["Fort Knight"]},{"at":347534978,"author":"FoumartGames","login":"foumart","gh":3528138,"url":"https://www.foumartgames.com","twitter":"FoumartGames","text":"<p>This reminded me of Ultima IV. Liked the puzzle element - it works really well. Also the way shores can be seen from afar is cool. Would love scrolling animation when sailing and some feedback when approaching fish or battle - at first I thought they just disappear. Nice chill music. Really good job on the decentralized part!</p>\n","games":["Moai Alley"]},{"at":347627138,"author":"Steven Lambert","login":"straker","gh":2433219,"url":"https://stevenklambert.com/","twitter":"StevenKLambert","text":"<p>Well done:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>The music is really lovely. Fits the game really well and sounds great</li>\n<li>Really cool concept of using the wind direction / strength to determine the cost of movement</li>\n<li>As much as I wished I had a general map of where land / the edge of the map is, I also understand that it’s the actual point of the game and so it accomplishes it’s goal of making you feel like you’re having to explore when things were unknown</li>\n<li>Graphics are really nice as well</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Feedback:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>I don’t think moving your ship to an invalid direction (like into the coast or the edge of the map) should count as a movement in terms of cost. At first I tried to move into the first port and kept losing “days” but didn’t understand why</li>\n<li>I’m still not sure the exact cost a movement will cost me. I generally understand moving with the direction of the arrows but I have no idea how to gauge which direction will be more cost effective</li>\n</ul>\n","games":["Necromancer Colony Sim"]},{"at":348301929,"author":"Allen Schmidt","login":"cobrajs","gh":297238,"url":"https://cobrajs.itch.io","text":"<p>Really cool concept! I couldn’t exactly figure out the most efficient way to sail, but it was still fun making my way around and exploring the map. Really liked the music and graphics as well. Greay job!</p>\n","games":["Pied Pipe Revolution"]},{"typ":2,"at":348941312,"author":"Tim Sulmone","login":"Sikbik","gh":39201520,"url":"https://runonflux.io","twitter":"little_stache","text":"<p>The near integration is well done, i really enjoyed the map downloads of voyages made, also good use of IPFS and the daily generated voyages is a neat feature.</p>\n"}],"results":{"theme":{"rank":14,"min":1.08,"score":3.95,"max":4.38},"innovation":{"rank":25,"min":1.12,"score":3.27,"max":4.43},"gameplay":{"rank":75,"min":1.24,"score":2.77,"max":4.34},"graphics":{"rank":76,"min":1.21,"score":3,"max":4.73},"audio":{"rank":58,"min":1,"score":2.64,"max":4.32},"controls":{"rank":57,"min":1.29,"score":3,"max":4.23},"decentralized":{"rank":1,"min":1,"score":null,"max":null},"primary":{"rank":45,"min":7.57,"score":18.64,"max":24.7},"label":"Overall"}}