Hey all,
I’m Infinite_Visions, proud owner of Visions Games and my Youtube Channel. This is my eighth installment on my solo project High Seas , an up-and-coming Pirate roleplay game.
It’s been a while since I typed one of these up, but for good reason. A lot has changed, and been added! We are launching a limited Beta on Friday, the 14th! Without further ado, let’s begin.
New Features
FINISHED Game map!!!
Thanks to @Diviniite, a map has finally been constructed. It’s seriously huge (ignore the lack of water)
Skeletons
These monstrosities spawn when you open treasure chests. Be careful - they pack quite a punch!
Bounty Hunting
When you have a bounty, players will be able to hunt you. When they kill you, they can collect your gold + Steal your bounty. You have to be a merchant to bounty hunt.
You can also pay off your bounty as a pirate, to return back to merchant state.
The KRAKEN
For now, this beast is mostly for show. He’ll be unleashed, to wreck havoc on the poor sailors, once Beta is over.
NPC Trading/Improvements
You can now trade your items with NPCs! This allows another way for you to get items and money as a merchant.
Potions
These potions can be bought or found in chests. They give you special powers - speed, jump, or heal 
Item Shop
This one is pretty self explanatory.
If I get someone to buy that 1 million robux. . .
Boat Building/Resource Collecting
This system received a huge overhaul!
It takes wood in order to build your ship. You have to chop down trees to get this wood.
DATASAVING
Perhaps the most important of them all - Datasaving! Everything now saves and loads in correctly, thanks to @Kampfkarren’s Datastore2 module.
Other Improvements
A lot more has changed than shown above.
System messages, for one thing. General bug fixes, and game balancing has occurred.
Previous Features
Shipwrecks! (Randomly Spawning)
These shipwrecks randomly spawn around the map. They sometimes have treasure hidden within! Swarmed with sharks, they are dangerous destinations to dive to.
Treasure Hunting/Chest System
There are four different types of chest:
* Treasure Chest
* Map Chest
* Gold Chest
* Boss Chest
Map Chest
As you can see, you open the chest, and it leads you to a treasure chest (sort of like Minecraft)
Treasure Chest
This chest gives you items (swords, armor, etc)
Gold Chest
As expected, this chest gives you randomized amounts of gold when you open it.
Interactable Merchant AI (NPCs, Ships, etc)
Ships
Ships move, following their course. They can also stop at ports, during which time the NPCs unload, and sell items!
When you rob them, the NPCs attack you. Cannons also are fired (with the ability to sink your ship as well as blast you).
Pick pocketing
You can do this to get gold.
Anyone in the crew also gets angry and attacks.
Update (Sidesword, backpack)
Hey, just finished up the custom inventory backpack. You can now add/remove items from your toolbar to your backpack. (Ignore the ugly output)
You also have a sides sword, which you can change depending on your equipped sword:
Character Customization
Shark AI
Spicy UI🔥
Please note: I am still working on the build/placement system gui.
(Old gifs, other UIs updated since then)
Zone Travelling System
As you can see, a prompt appears at the top when you travel into the “Open Ocean” (out of the map), and another prompt when you re-enter the island chain.
This can again be seen when you enter a smaller zone in the map.
Building Improvements
Placement system has been updated. However, the actual map building has also been improved thanks to @lieliedash2. You all wanted a more realistic look; we are delivering
Note: Buildings not final. There are kinks being worked out.
Huge, creative map! (Images)
Notice: Press “x” to fly around. This will let you move about the map.
As you can see, there are several islands completed. Some are basic, featuring large Armada forts. Some are floating merchant villages, bobbing on top of the waves. On a special few, large volcanoes brew ominously. . . Just watch out for the skeletons!
More villages/towns will be added. Each island will feature it’s own special structures, bosses, and challenges
Ship Building System
This system allows you to build and design your own ship.
NPC Interaction
These npcs will assign quests, give rewards, and more!
Treasure Chest System
In future updates, the first chest will give you a map. This map will lead to the second chest (the real treasure, which will give loot). The first chest will be found in ruins, sunken ships, etc. More to come
Shovel/Inventory System
As you can see, there is a custom backpack gui. The shovel can dig through terrain, to locate treasure.
Minimap
A beautiful minimap, in the corner of the screen. It will show the map (once I make it), and will expand to show it in greater detail.
Endless Ocean
The ocean is the main feature of any pirate game. As such, it needs to be realistic, exciting, and can’t suddenly end for the player. To combat this, I created an ocean that moves locally with you, but interacts with the server just as it does the client. Using Mesh deformation, I made some nice waves, some simple swimming animations, and a neat camera effect when under water.
Weather will be added (the ocean waves will increase/decrease according to the weather)
Rope Swinging
As we all know, rope swinging is essential to a pirate game. I had some fun messing around with physics, and got:
As you can see, you grab the rope, then move around faster and faster. When you release, you fly off a ways. This will allow you to hop ships in a “Pirate” fashion.
My ship may or may not be sinking.
Ship/Cannon Controls
Ship handling is a work in progress. I have to script my own friction, so I’m working out the kinks. In the future, waves won’t clip through the deck of the ship. The cannon and movement replicates to the server
Physics will be improved - this is a very, very early stage.
Testing link: High Seas
(Please note: There will be bugs, errors, and glitches. This is the minimum viable product.)
Final Notes
What ideas do you have for this game? What can I improve on? What needs to be balanced or changed? Thank you!
Don’t feel like typing up a reply here? Use the in-game suggestions button!
If you want to stay up to date: discord server: The High Seas
What do you think about this update?
- Looks AMAZING!
- Looks Fine
- Needs Work (Explain)
- It’s Terrible (Explain)
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More features/systems like the fruit/food collection will be added in the future.
