Ahab

[MrPink]

Ahab is a small project that my friends and I have been working on. It's a minimalistic, first person, sea monster hunting game.

As you can probably tell, it's inspired from Herman Melville's Moby Dick. We started the project in October, but then we all got jobs and production slowed down. I scrapped the code a couple months ago and rebuilt everything. I'm praying this 7day game jam will be a push for me to get the core loops polished enough to show it to you all.

Gameplay: Sail the open sea and hunt for the legendary white beast. Avoiding icebergs as you track and search for surfacing. Trek carefully though, you are being tracked as well.
Only with your mix of Harpoon, Sea Mines, and Cannons can you attempt to understand and conquer this legendary beast.
Ahab will tell his story of obsession and starvation for revenge as you embark and clash against the Moby Dick.

[MrPink]

Here the art my friend made of the ship and the beast (WIP)

[Macocco]

It looks AWESOME!
I hope to you can finish the game in time.
Good luck!

[Snuti]

That is some really beautiful graphics, good luck with the Jam!

[rogueNoodle]

That ship looks like it's going to be a lot of fun - can't wait to try it.

[this]

the boat looks gorgeous!

[btxsqdr]

o, that's cool. always nice to know an artist

[MrPink]

Okeee, here's some progress shots. Lot's and lots of tuning for the beast. His attacks are giving me a tough time with the targeting system I implemented.

Here's the open sea. It's cold outside! (Those are supposed to be icebergs)


Harpoons ready!


Debug targeting system, This was for a circle and close attack.



So we have an ocean, we have buoyancy, we have a beast, a ship, weapons.

The Beast's attacks; 4 are to be implemented, 1 is done, 1 in progress, 2 not started. I'll post the doc I have to illustrate them soon.

There's also a few embarrassing bugs ^_^

Thank the old gods and the new it's a 3 day weekend! I have my work cut out for me!

[MrPink]

Alright, man I've been busy. But I added a buunch of stuff.

Windows and Mac builds can be found .

New stuff:
Text Triggers
not all text is in, but some
Mouse Sensitivity
to make our writer, Ray, stop complaining
Splashes
under the boat (I think that's new)
when Moby is above Sea Level
Audio!
Seagulls
Moby groans
Ocean
Music - placeholder
The DJ Script, for out music looping
Weapon bug fixes
Barrels
Other stuff that I'm too tired to remember

Moby right now has 3 attacks
Attack from below
Circle and Close
Straight Away

Anyhoo, still lots of work to do but it's getting there.
Moby's attacks need a lot of tuning I feel and I also want to add whales to hunt during quite moments.