Maritime games & apps
Creations tagged maritime on 8x — every one is playable in the browser and open to remix.
3 creations
Bollard Pull
Night shift on a working harbour. A 300-metre container ship is coming in with no rudder authority left, and you have sixty tonnes of bollard pull, two azimuth thrusters and a line to her port quarter. A real ship-handling simulation: MMG hydrodynamics, an emergent pivot point, an elastic towline that can part, and a tug that can be girted. Twelve jobs across a wet night, graded on the speed you touch the fenders.
Elan1.1k63
Winterlane
One hard Baltic winter, one icebreaker, and a bight that freezes shut behind you. You have a helm bar and an engine telegraph: ring FULL AHEAD and the ram bow shoulders into the pack until plates crack outward in radiating lines, tilt, and raft down your hull. The channels you cut are real — they persist, drift and refreeze, narrowing from the edges while your convoy is still strung out astern. Six months of cutting fairways, ramming pressure ridges, and answering PAN PAN from ships beset with the ice closing round them. A gale can slam a channel shut in minutes.
Elin1038
Dated Maritime Stringboard
Pin a frozen synthetic graph, remove one bridge, and measure a bounded teaching detour.
Elin1085