Earliest win so far. I started next to four islands that all had a population max of 90-110, which allowed me to ramp up my progress way ahead of the other tribes. By the end, I was fighting with full armor and swords, and the Gothi hadn’t even gotten shields. Overall seems highly dependent on starting location but good fun nonetheless.
really liked this game, wouldve been a bit more fun if there was some customisation or a bit more conveyed to the player e.g. how much more research until the next level
I feel like this game is very dependent on your start. If you have large islands close together, you will probably do better (unless your neighbor has larger and even closer islands). If you only have smaller islands strung out like an archipelago, you are hosed.
Short Game would had it sooner if the and had them both defeated on same turn if that 1 ship you see by the island didnt decide to rest their instead of fighting
Good to play defencive until you find a good weakness to strike posibly you have tons of units and they have an island with no walls and low units things like that
so i was playing and found out if everyone dies on both sides pre-battle (i.e. siege flotolla and castle come together) it softlocks the battle and therefore the game
Okay, I think it might have to do with cookies. I'm getting a pile of "Cookie "" has been rejected as third-party." attached to stuff that sounds like game stuff.
It works on MS Edge. Third browser is a charm, eh?
It's a fantastic game, especially for people who have little spare time but still want to play a strategy game. As the creator describes, it is a little game, so it does not have much depth, which I find very convenient. Whenever I have free time, I play Ocean Tribes.
It would be great for the game to have the potential to expand somehow and save the player's current state. Furthermore, I would like the expansion to take place procedurally so that the game never ends!
I like the artificial intelligence it incorporates, as well as the balance in the game.
It's a Very fun game spent around 3 days in combined hours playing my record is 400 turns since that is too high for what seems to be average of 300 turns i'll update later
Enjoying this game, played dozens of times! This might be the most unique one so far...almost 200 turns and full tech, can't even see the opponents yet. XD
Edit: took until Tech level 23 to sail far enough, but at least I can finish!
The first 2 or 3 games I played I got ahead at the start but was later overwhelmed after ~300 turns.
The next game I think I got a "lucky seed" but also I noticed a few more details which seemed to help: the population capacity of the islands (making some more valuable and defensible), "stone" and "timber" islands (presumably give a bonus to production?) and the fact that building a flotilla depletes your population, which needs time to replenish.
I realised with the last part that in the previous games I had weakened my islands by producing flotillas too frequently. With this knowledge in hand I just won in 250 turns!
I am playing this game for years now and my record is 122 turns.
But I can not figure out the best way to get workshop. Sometimes I get the upgrade after tech level 8, sometimes it comes later. Sometimes it comes before the "warriors stronger" update, sometimes after...
Is it just random? Does it depend on the population size as well?
And what is difference with the timber and rock islands?
Technologies come in a randomized order, you can check that order by clicking the research progress bar at the top right order.
Rock islands provide production speed bonus (buildings are built faster on such islands). "Timber" islands are actually "game" islands, they provide population growth bonus.
first time I played I was not sure what to expect, got in a back and forth stalemate with the Rus until the Danes came out of nowhere. Victory in 454 turns.
Second time I played, expanded outwards fast until I saw an enemy, fortified the islands that they could see and built siege ships rapidly. Victory in 164 turns. I noticed on this second run my tech level was advancing way faster than my enemies, since I took many central islands and kept them from expanding. They never even upgraded their warriors to armor, let alone get siege ships that could attack me back.
I keep losing :( However, I often get a sort of bug: blue enemy ships stays on the map, once they arrive to my isles, even if they are doing "nothing". Also, those "ghost" ships hide my ship on the isles, so I can't see at glance if I have one of my ships on the isle...
WOW, a really incredible game, its too good, i was playing like a hour and a half just to coquest all the islands, i would like a see a full version with more features.
theres any plan to make a more features?, i really would pay for this, keep the great work
I'm playing on a mac. I keep getting a bug that causes the game screen to go entirely blank. I can still hear the music, but all I can see is white. Only solution I've been able to find so far is to reload, which resets the game. Can someone suggest a solution that would let me keep playing? Because otherwise I can't get very far!
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OH NOOO, The Island belongs to no tribe
Good stuff - plenty jank and plenty challenging. Overall nice job
Very fun! Finally won on turn 231
really liked this game, wouldve been a bit more fun if there was some customisation or a bit more conveyed to the player e.g. how much more research until the next level
No way to win, as the rest of the islands are unreachable, but I did get to tech lvl 100
Yeah, the game doesn't validate maps, so this happens occasionally. Sorry about that...
I feel like this game is very dependent on your start. If you have large islands close together, you will probably do better (unless your neighbor has larger and even closer islands). If you only have smaller islands strung out like an archipelago, you are hosed.
i did it! :)
Turn 189 what a battle
Turn 172 I decided to do castling just to be safe both npc still alive with no armor or weapon upgrades
I found a glitch if both sides all die in a fight the screen stays like this
I cant click anything
Same it was gut wrenching. Turn 300 and then this happens. XD. Seems you were playing for longer though.
Turn 215 finally seen an ncp to fight saddly i tried fighting it but kept beeing swarmed with to many boats to be able to take another island
Short Game would had it sooner if the and had them both defeated on same turn if that 1 ship you see by the island didnt decide to rest their instead of fighting
can you make the ai lees aggresive
they are vikings (sort of), they are supposed to be aggressive :)
they atack way to much i can barly get time to build stuff before the kill my best islands
Good to play defencive until you find a good weakness to strike posibly you have tons of units and they have an island with no walls and low units things like that
Tricky to take them both down on the same turn
so i was playing and found out if everyone dies on both sides pre-battle (i.e. siege flotolla and castle come together) it softlocks the battle and therefore the game
Got this as well ... almost taken their headcounter island T_T
Well that explains why my screen went to black and I cant do anything after playing for 200 and some turns
I just get "Generating archipelago" forever
Sounds like something breaks on the way. Could you check your browser console for any messages?
Okay, I think it might have to do with cookies. I'm getting a pile of "Cookie "" has been rejected as third-party." attached to stuff that sounds like game stuff.
It works on MS Edge. Third browser is a charm, eh?
its really a great game!
Do you have the logic in js. I would like to help out this game. I am using gdevelop
Thanks!
This game was made for a game jam many years ago and I'm not developing it anymore. But maybe I'll remake it one day.
Nice little game, it doesn't take much time to play and easy to master, give it a try!
It's a fantastic game, especially for people who have little spare time but still want to play a strategy game. As the creator describes, it is a little game, so it does not have much depth, which I find very convenient. Whenever I have free time, I play Ocean Tribes.
It would be great for the game to have the potential to expand somehow and save the player's current state. Furthermore, I would like the expansion to take place procedurally so that the game never ends!
I like the artificial intelligence it incorporates, as well as the balance in the game.
Congratulations again on the beautiful work.
Thank you! I'm thinking about rewriting it from scratch, I'm sure I can make a better game out of the idea now than 6(!!!) years ago.
I'm looking forward to seeing a newer version. I'm sure it will be even better.
I got a little stuck.... Everybody exploded at once and the game couldn't proceed.
Just had the same experience. Maybe the new version will make this a return to unoccupied
That is so hard !
But I won ;)
It's a Very fun game spent around 3 days in combined hours playing my record is 400 turns since that is too high for what seems to be average of 300 turns i'll update later
PS: Make it downloadable pls
Was like 20 min for me
I have spent an unhealthy number of hours on this
tem bastante potencial
has a lot of potential
Men: Chief, enemy tribes are attacking from the Northwest AND from the Southeast!
Me: Let's take our belongings and escape to the Northeast, and try to establish a foothold there.
Men: But we can't take our buildings with us.
Me: Then let's burn them to the ground and leave nothing to our enemies!
Men: We can't do that either.
Me: ... (refreshes page)
Enjoying this game, played dozens of times! This might be the most unique one so far...almost 200 turns and full tech, can't even see the opponents yet. XD
Edit: took until Tech level 23 to sail far enough, but at least I can finish!
My new speed record: 168 turns to win. It was 167, but the game pushed the message one turn later.
This is a great little game, and quite addictive!
The first 2 or 3 games I played I got ahead at the start but was later overwhelmed after ~300 turns.
The next game I think I got a "lucky seed" but also I noticed a few more details which seemed to help: the population capacity of the islands (making some more valuable and defensible), "stone" and "timber" islands (presumably give a bonus to production?) and the fact that building a flotilla depletes your population, which needs time to replenish.
I realised with the last part that in the previous games I had weakened my islands by producing flotillas too frequently. With this knowledge in hand I just won in 250 turns!
Hi Watabou,
I am playing this game for years now and my record is 122 turns.
But I can not figure out the best way to get workshop. Sometimes I get the upgrade after tech level 8, sometimes it comes later. Sometimes it comes before the "warriors stronger" update, sometimes after...
Is it just random? Does it depend on the population size as well?
And what is difference with the timber and rock islands?
Technologies come in a randomized order, you can check that order by clicking the research progress bar at the top right order.
Rock islands provide production speed bonus (buildings are built faster on such islands). "Timber" islands are actually "game" islands, they provide population growth bonus.
Ah wow... I thought the randomization is a bug.
Thank you for your answer, now I have to beat my own record while waiting for a battleship like multiplayer. :)
let me just tell you, this game was *AMAZING.* Got me hooked for HOURS!
Cheers!
Finally I managed to win in 340 turns haha really good game I love it
first time I played I was not sure what to expect, got in a back and forth stalemate with the Rus until the Danes came out of nowhere. Victory in 454 turns.
Second time I played, expanded outwards fast until I saw an enemy, fortified the islands that they could see and built siege ships rapidly. Victory in 164 turns. I noticed on this second run my tech level was advancing way faster than my enemies, since I took many central islands and kept them from expanding. They never even upgraded their warriors to armor, let alone get siege ships that could attack me back.
super fun, im going to lose, and yet i am smiling... i will take that rock island, before i die tho, i will!~
I keep losing :(
However, I often get a sort of bug: blue enemy ships stays on the map, once they arrive to my isles, even if they are doing "nothing". Also, those "ghost" ships hide my ship on the isles, so I can't see at glance if I have one of my ships on the isle...
It be good to place defences right away knowing you lose more men attacking than defending
I think those ships always "frozen" on my isles are a sort of glitch.
WOW, a really incredible game, its too good, i was playing like a hour and a half just to coquest all the islands, i would like a see a full version with more features.
theres any plan to make a more features?, i really would pay for this, keep the great work
Thank you. I've been planning to expand it for a long time, but other projects have higher priorities. I still hope ti will happen.
Awesome and addictive lol, I got really close to winning and one of the battles came to a draw and it just froze /w the battle screen up.
I remeber showing a pitcher of a tie if you look though the comment
I'm playing on a mac. I keep getting a bug that causes the game screen to go entirely blank. I can still hear the music, but all I can see is white. Only solution I've been able to find so far is to reload, which resets the game. Can someone suggest a solution that would let me keep playing? Because otherwise I can't get very far!
Ah! Switching to full screen and/or back sometimes fixes it!