Wow it was really a blast to experience this game. I'm not a huge fan of ASCII graphics honestly but this is one of the rare games which made ASCII appeal to me. I especlially loved how the sea looks like. There are all different kind of tilesets, mountains, sand, lava etc. and all of them look distinct thx to color grading and visual effects. It's truly remarkable.
The game has a lot of depth and RPG mechanics. You can pick your crew from different races with different stats and perks. I think your crew member get a levelup too. You can upgrade your ship with new weapon and hull upgrades. I mean making all of these in a week is truly worthy of respect.
The music of the game fits the theme very well and doesn't annoy you. Sea waves sound effect create the immersion that we're on the sea very well. The UI of the game has a DOS era EGA graphics look. I didn't like that it's too text heavy at first but then it grew on me.
I think there are different factions on the world map which are represented with different letters. I wonder what those letters represent and i think some of those factions fight between each other bcs i was some NPCs fighting among themselves.
So you beat the game when you find all the pieces of Amulet of Yendor? And you find the pieces through treasure maps. Is it random which treasure map shows the piece? I guess you also mainly earn gold by finding treasure. I found 2 treasure chests during my run.I find the treasure finding quite fun. At some point the entire world map is shown on map screen, idk how it happened.
Sometimes when i click on a tile with mouse my ship automatically went there and sometimes i had to click evertime to move the ship one tile at a turn. It wasn't consistent for some reason.
It's really a charming and fun to play game. I loved your work!