Good evening you are listening to Throughmo's Ahead, and I'm your host, Rob Zakeney.

Join me this evening, we welcome Thruizade founder, Troy Goodfellow.

Good evening, all.

And we're also joined by Matthew Flanagan, the historical gamer on YouTube.

Hey, everyone.

And tonight we are running away to sea in Pickarest Studios, Nantucket, a whaling RPG based or loosely based on

Herman Melville's Moby Dick. So, Troy, you are the person who's sort of somebody should do a show

around this. You've been playing it quite a bit on Steam these last few weeks. What is Nantucket and how do you make a strategy

game out of Moby-Dec? Nantucket is a strategy RPG whaling game. It is like a lot of games,

you end out, you are just about you're running a crew. You have your ships and you upgrade your ships and you try to get bigger ships so you can kill more whales and make more money,

so you can kill more whales and make more money.

It's got a bit of a business sim to it with some role-playing elements.

Combat is run through cards where you combat. You're hunting the whales. You'll have

different crew with different skills, and these skills will allow you to kill whales faster, to

avoid getting hurt at sea more often. Occasionally you'll run into pirates or landlubbers who

don't like you all that much,

and your only land combat, which still uses the hunting cards, and that's kind of, we can talk

with that in a bit later. But you create, your crew accru skills, is a level up, and these

skills decide which cards you can play, and these cards are based on dice rolls.

You will have

six slots,

each one representing the face of a dye

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