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[bubman]

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- Devs Play ep.1 -

Overview

Nantucket is a seafaring strategy game set in the golden age of American whaling. Explore the seven seas, manage your ship and crew, hunt whales and immerse in a living world, dealing with hundreds of unique events.
Unveil Ishmael’s destiny and chase Moby Dick to dissolve Ahab’s curse.

Nantucket is a Strategy game in development by Picaresque Studio for PC, will be released later this year.


Gameplay

Explore the Seven Seas

Set your course and explore the seven seas, looking for new Whaling Areas or completing Quests. Beware of adverse Weather Conditions and Pirates looking for your precious load. Visit Cities around the world, selling your Goods, looking for hands for hire or just fresh News.

Manage your Ship

Pick your Crew in Cities, choosing among the five classes available (Sailors, Hunters, Scientists, Craftsmen and Cabin Boy) and assign them tasks on your Ship. Improve your Ship technology, unlocking new Compartments, and manage your Resources.

Face Tough Decisions

Hundreds of Events will force you to take tough decisions, deeply affecting your game and shaping the Captain you want to be. Every gameplay element is tracked in order to push Events related to you current Crew or Ship status.

Hunt For Loot

Hunt Whales for loot, Legendary Whales for glory and repel boarding Pirates in a Board Game like Combat System based on Evolving Dices. Unlock new skills to help you win fights and complete Quests to get new special Items to use.

Chase the White Devil

Dispel Ahab’s curse and uncover Ishmael’s story, following a quest line that will make you discover more about Moby Dick, dealing with indigenous legends and characters from Herman Melville’s masterpiece.


How can you help

Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, Youtube, IndieDB and share your thoughts on all Social media.

We need your feedback, feel free to post a comment and tell us what you think.


Disclaimer

Nantucket is a work of fiction that portrays the Golden Age of American Whaling and its protagonists. It’s a project born around our passion for history and great literature, such as Herman Melville’s Moby Dick.
Picaresque Studio does not support illegal whaling and invites you all to be aware about the endangered species problems caused by industrial whaling. Check the the International Whaling Commission’s website for more information (https://iwc.int/home)


Stay Tuned

Later on we are going to record some gameplay to show more features of Nantucket.

We will go on detail about gameplay and the story behind Nantucket.

Check out our Development Blog on our Website. Here are some old articles:

• Land Ahoy - A first look at Nantucket
• Sweet Home Nantucket
• Looking for Strong Hands and a Drink
• O Captain! My Captain! (Part 1)
• O Captain! My Captain! (Part 2)
• Ay, Ay, sir! There she blows!

Links

• Steam store page
• Studio Website
• Twitter
• Facebook
• Youtube
• IndieDB

Final Quote

Nantucket is a new seafaring strategy game
created to give you the whaling Golden Age
you captain your ship, looking for gold and fame
trying to dispel the curse born in Ahab’s rage.

If you like strategy games and you love Moby Dick
share the game’s links and tell your friends about it
and, if I you don’t mind, I’ll ask you another click
visit our Steam page and help us getting Greenlit.

[AD1337]

Nice! Love the aesthetics, good luck with greenlight!

[oldblood]

Second that. This looks solid, will be sure to give it a vote on greenlight.

[crusty]

OH MAN.  Did you know that they took little boys on their journeys called "monkey boys" and they had to go inside the sperm whale's head and scoop out the last oil bits?

Whaling is cool!

[Christian]

Oh wow, I finished reading In The Heart of the Sea recently, so I'm in the mood for more stuff in that period. This looks awesome

Any plans for a Kickstarter/crowdfunding?

[bubman]

Any plans for a Kickstarter/crowdfunding?

It's not in the plans, we are self funding the project and being few months from completion we won't look for any other source of funding.

[bubman]

Ahoy fans!

Here is our designer Marco talking in detail about the Combat System, on our Development Blog.

Also, another screen of the Combat.



Tell us what do you think, and don't forget to vote for us on Greenlight

[bubman]

Press Coverage

A bunch of articles from the press in the last few days

• Indiegames
• IndieGameMag
• GameRamble
• GameGrin
• Vandal (in Spanish)

Also we got in the Conceivably good strategy games of 2015 for Rock Paper Shotgun back in January


and a Special Mention

We got some love from the legendary designer Bill Gardner who retweeted us and made our day!

[bubman]

We reached the top 100 in Greenlight! Keep voting for us guys

[bubman]

Press Coverage Update

The fine folks at Rock, Paper, Shotgun just put out an article about Nantucket .... fantastic!!!

[bubman]

AWESOME NEWS

WE JUST GOT GREENLIT!



Thanks everybody for the support!

[AD1337]

Congrats, you deserve it! 

[bubman]

Ahoy, after the Greenlight journey finished it's time to sum up the experience and share some thoughts and data.

So we wrote a Greenlight post-mortem on our website, check it out!

[ryansumo]

Very much looking forward to this game.  Thanks for the really informative posts re: Greenlight!

[bubman]

Hi there boyz!

New post on our development blog.

It's about ships and upgrades, check it out!

[bubman]

Ahoy,

we posted the first minutes of gameplay of Nantucket, would love to hear some feedback, check it out!

[bubman]

Ahoy,

Time to show some gameplay in motion ... what's that shipwreck?!

[bubman]

Hi there,

The development of Nantucket is going full sail, we are close to have a full/playable/stable build and more than half of the content is in.

Here are GIFs to show the progress of Nantucket:

Weather areas in navigation

Combat effects

[fall_ark]

Very charming project. The choice menu reminds me of Crusader Kings. Hope everything goes smooth!
Since the game's Unity based...any chance for more localizations? I assume it'll release with a few European languages?

[bubman]

Very charming project. The choice menu reminds me of Crusader Kings. Hope everything goes smooth!
Since the game's Unity based...any chance for more localizations? I assume it'll release with a few European languages?

Thanks! We designed a big "Choose your own adventure" style Event system, we are aiming to put a thousand events in so ...

Yes, Crusader Kings was an inspiration for the events and ...

No, it will release english only, maybe after release.