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Puzzle Pirates Done, Walking Plank To Release

Posted by simoniker on from the one-pirate-story-per-day dept.

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!"

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  1. Arr Tis a great game by eakerin · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Harr mateys, I've been playing this great game since the original mention on /.

    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.

  2. kudos + macX support by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    this really is a fun game. I like that the developers are cool people (go e + co.!) and that they throw in bizzare stuff like when everything went all 'spooky' on halloween with the characters turning into zombies and skeletons and such.

    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.

  3. Puzzles vs MMORPG by Hecubas · · Score: 2, Interesting

    but instead of your typical hack & slash of EverQuest

    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.

    --
    Hecubas