Puzzle Pirates Done, Walking Plank To Release 35
Spuggy writes "Ahoy mates! Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates (originally mentioned a few months back on Slashdot Games) now has an official launch date of December 8th, 2003 - it's available in Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X flavors, and has been playable in Beta form for a while now. For those of you who have still not tried the game out, Puzzle Pirates is an interesting marriage of several puzzle games and aspects of a MMORPG; but instead of your typical hack & slash of EverQuest, you perform various single/multiplayer 2D puzzles to power your boat, craft various goods in the game, and even fight your fellow players and a series of NPC Brigand boats who threaten your voyages across the ocean!"
That's RRRRRRRRRPG, matey! (Score:4, Funny)
You could make a killing, charging a buccaneer.
ARSOME! (Score:3, Funny)
We should make a clan called the peg legs.
I can already imagine t' splinter factions, those scurvy dogs!
Bane of pirate hairstylists (Score:2)
The corsairs.
This game looks great (Score:1)
Re:yarrrr shut up (Score:2, Informative)
Mirka, Pirate of the Velvet Claws
Arr Tis a great game (Score:5, Interesting)
It really is a lot of fun if your a puzzle game kinda person, and the community is great, aguably the best part of the whole game. There's also a good supply of user run in-game events. There is a lot of swordfight and drinking turneys. Also we've seen Races, Sea shanty writing contests, and even a murder mystery (in which I got to play the Murderer).
The game will run on most any platform (as long as you have Java runtime 1.4.2) and it even runs pretty well on a low-spec machine (300Mhz 128Mb Ram). I'll also mention the developers of the game are a good bunch, friendly, funny, and very responsive to the needs of the community.
Re:Arr Tis a great game (Score:2)
Re:Arr Tis a great game (Score:2)
Feel free to look me up in game if anyone has any questions, or needs a little help.
Wait... wait... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Wait... wait... (Score:2)
oh, I thought it said Yahoo! (Score:1, Offtopic)
Re:oh, I thought it said Yahoo! (Score:1)
A little more info (Score:5, Informative)
The devels really are great, they're constantly active on the forums and in game; not to mention that they actually listen to the players (for example, there were quite a few complaints that there weren't enough Brigands (NPP boats) out there for you to pillage, so the devels made a few changes to the game so you now see consistently more Brigands on the waters).
I highly recommend that you go check it out; for anyone new to the game, feel free to look me up in game for any help or info "/tell spuggy". I also recommend that you get involved in the social aspect of the game, which as a previous poster said, ranks right up there as one of the best features of the game.
Cheers, hope to you see you all there.
Pricing? (Score:1)
Re:Pricing? (Score:2, Informative)
yarrrrrr (Score:1)
kudos + macX support (Score:1, Interesting)
the economics of the game is pretty interesting as well. buying an island is just plain epic.
of course, having it work on macX is huge for me.
Puzzles vs MMORPG (Score:3, Interesting)
Yes, but I think the people who enjoy games like EQ are not necessarily all climbing aboard Puzzle Pirates for a change of pace. This game looks to be an evolution of Yahoo! Games, and not quite in the same category of MMORPGs. Rather, if there's a game to rock the MMORPG world, it's going to be World of Warcraft.
Re:Puzzles vs MMORPG (Score:3, Insightful)
For a person like me, Puzzle Pirates is a perfect fit. I get to enjoy various puzzles and the traditional social aspects
Re:Puzzles vs MMORPG (Score:2, Informative)
I'm not going to presume that Puzzle Pirates is the game to rock the MMP world, as we're pretty small and independent, but I will say that I think that a radical departure from both fantasy genre and
The Pirate Keyboard (Score:3, Funny)
The Pirate Keyboard [livejournal.com]
Didn't work in Panther (Score:2)
An error occurred while launching/running the application.
Title: Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates
Vendor: Three Rings Design, Inc.
Category: Invalid Argument error
The application has requested a version of the Java 2 platform (JRE) that is currently not locally installed. Java Web Start was unable to automatically download and install the requested version. The JRE version must be installed manually.
Re:Didn't work in Panther (Score:3, Informative)
Arrrrrrrrrr....I got hooked on this game (Score:1)
Constantly Surprising (Score:1, Informative)
Also of note is the devs, Three Rings. As