I now have a pirate ship sailing around the sea (in 3D) under player control and feeling pretty pretty good.

@vampiress @grumpygamer alien pirates that play sudoku to reload the cannons?

@grumpygamer sea-minesweeper

@grumpygamer Just add stuff until it's a game. This is my favorite kind of game design

@vampiress @gureito @grumpygamer This sounds like a re-imagining of Puzzle Pirates, which, wow, I had not thought about in a looong time.

(https://www.puzzlepirates.com/)

@grumpygamer a pirate game by a guy named Ron Gilbert ? This will never work...

@grumpygamer

"Haiku?"

"No"

"Erm... diplodocus?"

"Nonono"

"Oh well, back to work."

"Gee, I feel kinda bad now."

@grumpygamer there are Sudoku variants where a path needs to be found through the grid (with special rules, eg numbers on the path must always differ by at least 4). It's definitely possible to make that work!
Check out the YouTube channel Cracking the Cryptic and prepare to get shanghaied into a world of Sudoku wonder

@mogwai_poet @grumpygamer have toy will add todo list to turn it into work. is it a game now? /s

sorry. i’m just a toy maker. turning it into a game is the hard part for me.

@shanecelis @grumpygamer Well, let's figure it out together. At what point in this potential feature list does it become a game?

- Bird that follows you around
- Bird directs you to nearby land masses
- Fog of war system so you fill out a map as you explore
- Collectible birds on the map, eventually turning your bird into a flock
- More birds let you see further
- Enough birds can pick up your ship and fly you around, so you can explore the clouds too
- In the clouds you collect Mega Birds

@grumpygamer I remember playing Valheim and once we had a big ship, just sailing around for fun. Good times