We are still very hard at work in development with a new development team and are going to be doing our very best to bring you a great game. As this is Early Access, there will be some features not yet fully realised and some parts that may seem buggy. We’d appreciate reporting issues in the Steam forums.
For suggestions, general feedback and discussions please visit the main forum page.
The first month of development will be on the following key areas
Improving bridge interior quality (none of the current ships are up to final interior quality)
Balancing in game economy and ranking
Creating new missions for Career Mode
Gaining community feedback from users to plan following months work load
Adjusting English text & translating into other languages
New ships will of course be added in Early Access but we would like to refine what we have first before we begin to add new content.
As for new ships, we would like your requests. Check out the link below to find details on how you can suggest new ships and the process we are adopting.
We will be building up suggestions for the very first few weeks and implementing as many as possible.
We also have a Fishing boat which can be unlocked by registering your game, Registering allows us to contact you for specific updates for World Ship Simulator including detailing any important decisions that may be made with the community. Check the link for more details:
And finally, just to note that Players who have purchased European Ship Simulator up until 24th of November will receive World Ship Simulator for free.
All the best,
Chris
A Small Delay To World Ship Simulator
Hi everyone,
We have been working very hard to finalize everything for World Ship Simulators release. However I am afraid an issue has appeared that has resulted in a slight delay to the games release.
We will have to delay the game by six days to the 17th of November. Of course, those who own European Ship Simulator will still receive a copy of World Ship Simulator for free. But I am afraid that there have been some unavoidable issues that have severely impacted the release.
Below are just a few screenshots of the game in action that we'd like to share:
We apologize for the last minute delay and are really looking forward to you all getting your hands on the game soon.
World Ship Simulator - The Port Boat & Optimisation
The following is an announcement from the World Ship Simulator Steam page. Check out world Ship Simulator here: http://store.steampowered.com/app/403980
Hi everyone,
Over the next week up to the games launch on the 12th of November we'll be sharing a few videos. The first of which I can reveal today, will be the port boat. Check out the boat in action below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCIJRIfmXe0
The above video does include an FPS counter for a few of the scenes. We understand that during European Ship Simulator that optimization was really important to everyone. So we are working towards this and still have some work to do.
World Ship Simulator will launch with more customization to increase performance on your machines. below are some of the options players can tinker with.
Not long now until launch and we can't wait for you all to play the game!
World Ship Simulator - Steam Page Is Live
Hi everyone,
The Steam page and the community page for World Ship Simulator is now live.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/403980/
Those who have purchased European Ship Simulator will receive World Ship Simulator for free. The game is being developed by a completely different team to European Ship Simulator.
Here is the announcement trailer for the game:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsX52wXev4w
More work to be done, but we hope you enjoy the new career focused element of the game.
All the best,
Chris
World Ship Simulator - Small Progress Update
Hi Everyone,
As I mentioned in the previous announcement, everyone who owns a copy of European Ship Simulator will be given World Ship Simulator for free when it launches later this year in Early Access.
A little update on our progress today, We have implemented a new ocean system into the game and we're now playing around with it to improve it. Check out a screenshot of the new ocean below:
If you look closely around the exterior, we've added some crew near the front of the ship too.
More news to come soon.
All the best,
Chris
An Important Anouncement - The Future
Hello everyone,
We would like to share some news with you regarding the development of European Ship Simulator. We would like to let everyone know why we have been pretty quiet over the past few months.
During the Early Access period of European Ship Simulator, negotiations with the developer had broken down and this meant we were unable to support the game further. This resulted in a hunt to locate a new development team to take over the rest of the development process. We should have communicated this earlier, though when we started the search for a new development team to take over, we were expecting the turnaround for the new developer to take over the project to be much shorter.
However upon receiving the source code, the new developer had asked us if they could start the project again so that they can implement new features much more effectively without the restrictions of using the previous code.
So, the game evolved and became its own game, using perhaps some existing models (though retextured to increase performance) and using the same water engine. The game has been for the last month been titled “World Ship Simulator” and will release during Early Access at a similar stage of playability that European Ship Simulator had become.
While we have spent time and resources to develop a new game with a new developer, we do feel we should have communicated more effectively what was happening behind the scenes of European Ship Simulator. For that reason we have the following in place.
Anyone who has purchased European Ship Simulator up to the release of World Ship Simulator, will be given World Ship Simulator for free.
World Ship Simulator will differ in quite a few ways and below are just a few bullet points to list what we will have when it launches
• Open world map with no loading screens between ports
• Initially three fictional ports (with busier ports)
• Career mode where players start with a ship, earn money, gain experience and purchase new ships
• Ship Crew added
• New day/night sky effects
• Ability to speed up time in game
• Damage system with visible damage that dents the sides of ships
• Currently working on developing a hovercraft to use in the game
• Ability to leave the vessel and accept missions off shore
We'd also like to share a few screenshots of World Ship Simulator (two of these vessels you may remember from European Ship Simulator)
While currently we are using the same water system we used for European Ship Simulator, we are also keeping an eye on a new water system that we may use for the game once it releases
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHudbVe5QbA
So in summary, World Ship Simulator is to launch later this year in Early Access and everyone who owns European Ship Simulator will be given this for free. We really do want to expand the Ship Simulator genre and we hope you will join us as we progress further with this.
All the best,
Chris
European Ship Simulator - Moving To Unity 5
We are currently working on moving European Ship Simulator from Unity 4 to Unity 5. Unity 4 presented us with some restrictions during the development process and we know these will be lifted with the move. We are now working hard on this and seeing good progress and will make an announcement in due course.
New Update - Port Boat Mission
Hi everyone. A new port boat mission is now available. This is a new type of mission that includes way points that are partnered to AI ships meaning that the mission marker will follow the ship as it maneuvers around the map.
Another mission will release next week
All the best!
NEW UPDATE - Port Boat And Future Development
Today, I’d like to share with you our future plans for European Ship Simulator. We are restructuring our development team so that we are able to dedicate more time and resources to turn this into the core product that we have envisioned.
We have every intention of supporting this for many years to come and in the next few months we will have more news to share on the future of European Ship Simulator along with plans for new features, refinements and implementing suggestions from the community.
To kick-start this, we are releasing a variety of new missions over the next 8 weeks, starting with the new port boat and one new mission available from today.We hope to reveal news of further development within the next one to two months with detailed plans regarding how we are going to improve and refine this game.
Please follow us on our social media channels and check the steam forums for more news coming shortly.
More News Very Soon, New Vessel Tease
Hello everyone,
We had planned to reveal more information on the Future of European Ship Simulator today but we are just working through a few things and may be able to reveal more details next week. Please stay with us, we want to continue working on this and I hope we will have something exciting to share very soon.
For now I can reveal one of the upcoming vessels that you will captain very soon. This ship will release for free as part of an update. I will make a further announcement when it is available.
