Free To Play Pirate Games

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Myname is Janine Halloran and I am a Licensed Mental Health Counselor with over a decade of experience, working mostly in elementary and middle school settings. I\u2019m also a mother to two children. If there is one thing I\u2019ve learned as a counselor and as a mom, it is that play is vital for children. The Official Journal of American Academy of Pediatrics puts it perfectly: \u201CPlay is essential to development because it contributes to the cognitive, physical, social, and emotional well-being of children and youth.\u201D

However, some kids really struggle with learning how to play with their peers. Some things I've heard from the parents of my students are \u201Cmy kid doesn't know what to do on a play date\u201D or \u201Cthey get confused and overwhelmed as soon as we walk through the door\u201D or \u201Cthey invite somebody over and then they don't play with them, what do I do?!\u201D These kids have a hard time figuring out what to do on play dates. They may be shy, reluctant to make connections with others or they may get easily overwhelmed in social settings. The thing they all have in common is that it can be a challenge for them to be on a typical play date. They need a little bit more structure to help create a successful experience. Our goal is to provide families with the tools and resources that will allow children to flourish in play.

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With its unique folding capabilities and carrying handle, this toddler pirate ship climber is perfect for convenient storage when not in use. The fabric canopy is removable, and the canopy poles retract into the frame, so this pirate ship playhouse is perfect for tucking behind the couch or nestling in the small space between cabinets in the garage until your little one's next adventure!

The built-in slide on the Play & Fold Away Pirate Ship climber toy delivers endless hours of fun! Come rain or shine, playtime never has to end as this plastic play pirate ship can be used both indoors and outdoors. Perfect for your backyard or basement, your child can create their own pirate adventure wherever they play with their very own treehouse.

Watch your little explorers climb & play on their very own pirate ship with the Play & Fold Away Pirate Ship playset. Climb the ladder to stand on the platform and use the swiveling telescope and steering wheel. Little ones will enjoy endless adventures playing in the secret play space underneath the platform. With two doors and two mesh windows, this pirate ship play structure is the perfect hiding spot for toys and other treasures.

Thought I would share this game I'm working on. It's a simple adventure game, sticking to pulp's strengths, where you play as a pirate captain. There's a "world map" in the style of a sea chart that you can sail around in a boat visiting different islands, which is basically a setup that lets me make lots of little standalone screens to play around with ideas as they pop into my head. For the art style I was hoping to go for a "treasure map" kind of minimalism.

This is the starting screen - you have to find the ship's key in order to leave it and open up the sea chart, but there are other things to do too; the driftwood can be collected and used to start a fire for example, while the two pirates in the bottom right are playing a coin toss minigame you can join in with. I wanted it to be an easy opening that's also quite content dense.

Here's another screen, this time a single puzzle where you have to wait at the campfire until low tide so that a path is unveiled that lets you get to the chest in the top left (at low tide you are transitioned to another screen to simulate the tide going out).

And something different again, this small deserted island is home to a castaway who has been corresponding with another character via messages in bottles. There isn't anything to do other than investigate the surroundings and learn that through some (hopefully funny) dialogue!

In addition to the screens shared above that includes an island of trash, home to a raccoon who is a potential playable character (if you can find your way through the piles of rubbish to get to him).

If you're thinking, "Hey, I would like to give this a play!" then check out the opening post - I've edited it with some new screenshots and the all-important pdx so you can play the game on your Playdate or simulator!

I scoped things back a lot in order to get something fully playable from start to end, most notably in cutting out the "sea chart" where you could sail around in your ship entirely. It wasn't really working, and is on my definitely-want-to-do-better list for optimistic future development Instead of all that, at the moment the game plays linearly one island to another through nothing more than a menu screen. It's not ideal, but it works - I hope!

One of the things i love about games like Metroid / Ori (I, II) / Link's Awakening / etc... is that you sometimes have to go back to a place you've been before but with a new skill, there are new things to find. I could see that being fun in your world here.

I started out with this exactly because the setup made it easy to just add a new island and play around with a new idea in mostly isolation, it worked as a way of introducing myself to Pulp. The scalability of that is a happy side effect really!

I definitely agree on the fun in returning to previous places. What I'd love to expand this into would have a non-linear way of exploring the islands with reasons to return to different places. The compromise here with the menu for moving from one island to the next in a set order was really just me giving up and wanting to get something finished!

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Dress up? Ay, matey! This swashbuckling role play costume set will let kids' imaginations set sail as they dress up as a classic pirate. The outfit includes an embroidered vest with golden colored accents, deep pockets to hold lots of discovered treasures, and a sewn-on silky red sash. It also includes a felt pirate hat, an iconic pirate eye patch, and a soft sword. The pirate role play outfit is sized to fit boys and girls ages three to six. The high-quality fabrics and solid construction ensure durability so your kids can wear it over and over again. The vest can be machine washed, and it comes with accessories that can easily be wiped clean. So get ready for lots of pretend play! The Pirate Role Play Set promotes narrative thinking and creative expression, along with independent and cooperative play. It makes a great gift for kids to enjoy hands-on, screen-free play.

Skull and Bones is finally coming out this month (or so we're told), and this week's open beta is Ubisoft's last best chance to convince us that the long-delayed pirate game is worth $60. I played a few hours of it today, and I can't say I'm convinced, though I won't rule out that it gets better in the endgame.

It starts with Ubisoft's typical early game babying: Before you graduate from captaining a dinghy, generic pirate NPCs make you prove that you understand complicated game systems such as pressing F to pick up floating loot, and you're sent schlepping between little islands in search of an acacia tree to cut down. That task took me a while, because other players had already harvested all the nearby acacia groves, and I guess they take a while to respawn. Yo ho yo ho, another stump for me.

Should logging really be one of the first things you do in a pirate game? Probably not, but after acquiring lumber and finally building a proper ship, I could focus on sinking NPC merchants to amass wealth and supplies, which is better.

The combat is simple fun, although it's more like piloting a speedboat than captaining a 17th century ship. I guess I somehow failed to absorb any of the nearly 30 Skull and Bones trailers Ubisoft put out over the past seven years, because I'd been picturing something slower and more dignified, like the capital ship battles of Fractured Space (except on the ocean, obviously).

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