Shipolis (Demo)

Saw your trailer--it's a gorgeous game with unique theme. Easy to pick up concept given real-life trade routes. You will succeed!

I really enjoyed the new update, and I may write another comment like my last later about it. Anyways there were some bugs.

It crashes on launch howw to fix

Ok, so... Steam page when?

Here's some feedback. Overall, once I got into it, I really enjoyed the game :)

Positive

I want to point out that the "positive" list will likely not be very long. This doesn't mean nothing was good, but rather the opposite. These are mainly points that really stood out to me. So far I am very impressed with the quality of the game.

• Immediately impressed with UI/Menu, found myself moving the mouse over the buttons because it was satisfying.
• I love the in-world explanation for island layouts.
• I did not mind the fog, whilst playing, even though I was concerned about it in my first reddit comment.
• Once through the tutorial, and grasping the game, I enjoyed the casual nature of the game. Unfortunately I can't go too indepth, as I had only about an hour to play.

Constructive Critisism

If at any point something comes across as mean or similar, please know I did not intend it that way. This part of the comment will probably be the longest, as it is easiest to notice things that do not work well (for me).

Points 1-4 are about the tutorial, so here's a TLDR: The tutorial box text I found to be not very readable due to horizontal spacing and/or font. Additionally, I think it can be implemented better with smaller bite-sized chunks, with perhaps some things locked at the start, that the user unlocks later to ease them into the game. Right now it gives ALL the information right at the start, which is overwhelming.

1. Tutorial boxes: text needs more vertical spacing, finding it hard to read like this, letters like 'g' overlap onto lower line when encountering tall letters.
2. Opening the map right after starting because the game tells you to, immediately launches you into a tutorial series about upgrading and travel permits. I think upgrading and permits should be locked at the start, opening up later in the tutorial/game, preventing the bombarding with information right at the start.
3. Similarly, when approaching the first island, another large tutorial series popped up. I had to stop myself from skipping through it. Also, reading it was "in one ear, out the other", as I have no idea what I'm doing yet, but im still getting a lot of information.
4. The tutorial seems to give a lot of information, but I found myself a bit lost on getting started with the game, as I was not sure what to build first. Perhaps it's because I went into the game basically blind from the reddit post (video showcase 4), but it took a bit to get into it. This may be due to me being an idiot and/or info bombing from the tutorial as mentioned before.
5. Personally, I'd prefer the camera stay at a set distance, or maybe it needs more smooth easing? I found myself liking the zooming out of the view when sailing, but perhaps it should wait longer before zooming back in, as changing direction zooms in real fast, causing a sort of jitter because it zooms out again. (This is something that I noticed less and less while playing, so maybe not that big if a thing)
6. I found myself with 'holes' in my discovered map area, because some islands were too big for me to discover the centre. Could be solved by a tiny bump in the map discover circle. Would be nice for the completionists among us :)

Bugs

• Resume button when at an island does not work/is disabled. Escape/E still allowed leaving an island though.
• The mouse is very small at large resolutions (3840x2160)

Feature suggestions

• (An option for) muting sound when game loses focus would be nice :)
• Perhaps a waypoint/marker system, where (right)clicking on the a city of the map places an arrow at the edge of the screen.
• Maybe a wind system could be cool? Would perhaps add something cool with making decisions based on wind direciton, allowing a certain route to be faster than another. Would probably need to be toggleable though, as I imagine not everyone would like it.

Hello! I really enjoyed the game. But i think having boxes were there are no buildings in a city is a bit ugly. 

Also i think some production buildings that use material to make another one should only be making things once a time cycle. This would make it so the player would prioritise only making the raw good in a island and then they would have to ship it to another island that has a ton of production buildings to refine that raw good. But i think not all production buildings should have that time cycle thing to keep the game varied.

Also I think the press should also need wooden barrels because it would tie in nicely with the progression because just after getting planks you get the obelisk which makes it easy to get barrels. Also grape juicy should be like a wine barrel thing.

Also while I was trying to taking one of the pics i found a bug where looms would boost eachother. I think it is a bug because it doesn't say that it should do it in its description, but having a building that would get a boost when next to the same building would be cool

But even in it's current state i really enjoyed it, and you don't have to do anything i said here since this is your game, and you should prioritise your own vision for it.

Anyways im looking forward to updates.

Take care!

Can you get grapes to make the grape juice to upgrade the houses? I had a look around my world and couldn't see anywhere spawning grapes, is that something that will be added later?
Cool game I like it smiles :)

A really smooth sailing experience :) I mean it, it's so satisfying to stear your ship from one city to the other! The game  is so pretty, it's a shame there's so much fog you can't really enjoy the scenery fully, it's the only downside I can think of ~ This alpha is solid, the game has a lot of potential! 

Love it, will definitively play next iterations