{"id":338,"date":"2007-05-23T17:41:45","date_gmt":"2007-05-23T16:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/?p=338"},"modified":"2009-01-03T04:17:15","modified_gmt":"2009-01-03T09:17:15","slug":"our-new-game-high-seas-the-family-fortune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2007\/05\/23\/our-new-game-high-seas-the-family-fortune\/","title":{"rendered":"Our New game: High Seas &#8211; The Family Fortune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gametrust.com\/cms\/?q=node\/484\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/highseas_logo.jpg\" alt=\"High Seas Logo\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>High Seas &#8211; The Family Fortune<\/strong><br \/>\nI am happy to announce my secret side project: <a href=\"http:\/\/soupgames.net\/highseas\">High Seas &#8211; The Family Fortune<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It is our attempt at making a fairly innovative yet accessible casual game.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/soupgames.net\/highseas\">Get it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gametrust.com\/cms\/?q=node\/484\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/highseas_play1_480.jpg\" alt=\"High Seas play 1 480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From the Press release:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;High Seas: The Family Fortune&#8221; brings players into the world of Tricia McDormand &#8211; a disenchanted young woman who has been trudging along at her father&#8217;s map company for years. That is, until one day, a long lost map of her late Grandmother &#8211; a legendary pirate &#8211; is found. With the map in hand, players join Tricia as she sails the seven seas in search of the mysterious family fortune. In order to power Tricia&#8217;s ship, players must drag rows of jewels and align them by shape <em>or <\/em>color &#8211; and receive big bonuses for aligning by shape <em>and <\/em>color. Players travel to 16 different island locales, and complete challenging puzzles to discover clues that reveal the great McDormand secret that has eluded historians for years!<em> <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Features<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Yes! It is a matching tile game, but with some radical twists!<\/li>\n<li>Physics model: You can interact with all tiles on the screen, all the time.<\/li>\n<li>No waiting for tiles to fall. Free interaction without making matches.<\/li>\n<li>Match on shape <em>or<\/em> color.<\/li>\n<li>Developed story (!): Tricia travels the world following her grandma&#8217;s map in search of the Family Fortune.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Credits<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Developed by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.soupgames.net\">Soup Games<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.planet.dk\">The Planet<\/a>. Published by GameTrust.<\/li>\n<li> Game Design: Mads Rydahl and Jesper Juul.<\/li>\n<li> Graphical and Model Design: Simon Sonnichsen.<\/li>\n<li> Graphics &amp; 3D: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.happyflyfish.dk\">HappyFlyFish <\/a>\/ Michael la-Cour and Jesper Fleng.<\/li>\n<li> Additional Graphical design: Mads Rydahl.<\/li>\n<li> Sound: K?v Gliemann.<\/li>\n<li> Story writer: Heather Chaplin.<\/li>\n<li> Programming: Jesper Juul.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prweb.com\/releases\/2007\/5\/prweb528016.htm\"><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Methods<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I could write a lot about the methods we used, but some of the work was surveying the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/?p=336\">history of matching tile games as previously mentioned<\/a>, and after that a long prototyping phase with lots of iterations and user testing. I may do a longer writeup, depending on how the game does, I suppose.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Play the game!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, please <a href=\"http:\/\/soupgames.net\/highseas\">try and buy the game<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>High Seas &#8211; The Family Fortune I am happy to announce my secret side project: High Seas &#8211; The Family Fortune. It is our attempt at making a fairly innovative yet accessible casual game. Get it here. From the Press release: &#8220;High Seas: The Family Fortune&#8221; brings players into the world of Tricia McDormand &#8211; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2007\/05\/23\/our-new-game-high-seas-the-family-fortune\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Our New game: High Seas &#8211; The Family Fortune&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,10,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-actual-games","category-game-design","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}