SailSim

Catch the wind in your sails with this physics-based sailing simulation. Trim every rope to maneuver the boat in the direction you desire.

This is a hobby project that we have been working on for a couple of years, with the primary goal of experimenting with more realistic sailing mechanics.

The controls of the boat turned out to be very challenging to learn, but I hope that some will find it a fun experience.

Once you learn to sail freely, you can gather resources floating in the water to buy a bigger ship with more sails and slots for cannons. Then, you can find some pirates to fight with :D

Hints:

• Mind the red flag(s) on the boat indicating wind direction.
• Listing your boat will fill it with water, which will make it sink.
• Letting the red hunger bar go to zero will cause you to die.
• Food can be found in barrels on the first island.
• Wood/Fabric can be found in floating cargo.
• Steel can be looted from chests on some islands.
• To interact with anything on the island, you need to moor your boat to it.

Controls:

• F1 - help
• RMB pan camera
• SCROLL zoom
• CTRL - show interactive objects
• LMB - select control point
• W/S - interact with selected control point (eg. heave/ease rope)
• A/D - move the rudder
• Q/E - prev/next control point
• Z - special action
• 1...9 - hold to asign control point shortcut, press to use shortcut
• SPACE - shoot cannons
• F9 - cheat console
• F10  - cheat camera