Puzzle Pirates Done, Walking Plank To Release

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!"

Comments

Arr Tis a great game

[eakerin]

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.

Puzzles vs MMORPG

[Hecubas]

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.