A new ocean event in Fantasy and Purist mode has reared its algae bedraggled head to look in your direction like an obnoxious in-law at your Christmas dinner.

A gentle slimy hug from the ocean

When sailing the waters of the Atlantic, there is now a small chance to cross a Sargasso belt. These floaty green pools of seaweed, algae, and sargassum will slow your ship by 30% while offering a new fishing opportunity; EELS!

Ever ate an eel? Me neither but these ones won't give you electric feels.
Throw em to the crew and they'll slurp them down like spaghetti.


New Feature
+ Atlantic Sargasso Sea event
+ Eel fish type
+ Net eels

Bug Fixes
- Launch logo centered on all screen sizes
- Inventory deletion / duplication bug resolved

This update would not have happened without Kofi supporters[ko-fi.com]. Join the crew if you'd like to see another feature update someday.

Fair winds to you all lads!
- Evan, Captain of Victorian Clambake

The achievements have been fixed.

This post will be dryer than your mouth after three days at sea without water.

Due to recent Windows 11 incompatibilities, I ran The Caribbean Sail through GameMaker 2 and exported it. This was a painfully difficult process that involved resolving over 48,000 errors.

+ Version number is now 1.8
+ Exported with GM2

If you were experiencing crashes on Windows 11 before and this resolved them, please let me know.
If you are experiencing any crashes now that you weren't before, please let me know also.
I will not sell defective products.

The game was unfortunately never ported to Mac 64-bit and unfortunately I cannot afford a Mac at this time to export with and as Steam is fully discontinuing support for 32-bit Mac applications, I will not be supporting Mac users for now. If you would like to help potentially bring back Mac support then donations on my Ko-Fi will go towards licensing fees, developer fees, and development hardware: https://ko-fi.com/victorianclambake#



https://gtm.you1.cn/storesteam/app/2153250/Captain_Blacksword/
Looking for something more exciting? I've recently updated the page for my next game with many new GIF's! Check it out and wishlist your next nautical adventure today!

Fair winds to you all,
- The Captain

Well hey there boys and girls!

Have you ever wanted to be a cartoon mouse pirate? Then have I got news for YOU!

After 95 years since first stepping onto the world stage, Steamboat Willie is now a playable character in the Caribbean Sail!

1) Start a new profile
2) Enable Fantasy mode
3) Name your Captain "Steamboat Willie" *
4) Scroll two occupations left
5) Select the ol' mouse himself
6) Get to pirating!

*Alternatively, earn 20000XP

+ New occupation: Steamboat Willie
+ Unique ring smoke puffs for Steamships when playing as Steamboat Willie
+ New shanty when playing as Steamboat Willie
+ New artworks for plank walking, dying, hanging, and flogging
+ A new little Blacksword Easter Egg
+ Governor starts with £5,000
+ Particle effects

[The Merch store is no longer live - Event ended]

Unfortunately those are hard to make, ship, or sell online so I've created the next best thing: A limited time merch store!

[vcmerch.com]Hosted by shopify and printed by printful (not painstakingly handcrafted as usual) all high enough quality for this Captain's standards!

[vcmerch.com]The desk pad is my personal favorite. There's no branding which makes it versatile! Use it as a giant mouse pad, a game mat to make cards easier to pick up (Try my card game[victorianclambake.com] on it), make your coworkers jealous, organize your crew rations on it, make it into a rum coaster for your table, roll it up and smack away seagulls, wrap yourself in it for warmth as the cruel winds blow down from the north- the possibilities are endless!

[vcmerch.com]My second favorite piece is the Joyless Roger stealth shirt! Black printed on black is obviously the coolest possible cooler combination and it doesn't come cooler than this. The subtle design without branding makes it a flexible base piece for any everyday pirate looking to show their true colors.

There's a few other items on the store but all are currently limited to only 10 units available in total per size, per item, shipping in USA only. I don't plan on staying in the merch business forever at this time so fetch yer swag and toss a few doubloons my way because this whole ship will sink in January 2024.

If things go well I may replenish stock in December, create more designs, more products, or other things... like a sheet of Caribbean Sail themed stickers. I'm testing new waters so we'll see where they take us!


Captain Blacksword is underway lads and I'm sharing updates regularly on the Discord[discord.gg] and Twitter (or X marks the spot if you prefer) and cross posting to a strange little website called Stimulus[www.stimulus.com].

WHAT THE DEVIL IS THAT?

Since you asked and it no longer feels like I'm cornering you to talk about my endless passion projects apropos of nothing; I went an extra nautical mile as Captain Blacksword is intended to be an NES style arcade game and built my own tabletop arcade machine. I'm working on an arcade compatible demo to run that will be downloadable on my Kofi page[ko-fi.com] for the Clambake Crew members.

Captain Blacksword has been in a toybox phase for longer than you've been ignoring the barnacles on your hull and as of today is now on course for completion. Feature creep has bogged things down long enough and I'm focused on creating levels. What lies before me is an estimated 100 days of work. Not days until release, 24 hour periods of solid development. Blacksword will not release until it has achieved 10,000 wishlists even if the game is 100% complete. This ship will sail or stay in port until I figure out how to create the wind myself.

As a final announcement...

I am legally obligated not to disclose what it will be until January 1st.

Victorian Clambake has parlayed with Fireblade Studios, The Quantum Astrophysicists Guild, and Vitali Kirpu to bring you the Indie Plunder Bundle!

Four piratical indie games for a 20% discount when purchased together or completing the set!





Hundreds of hours worth of piracy packed into this swashbuckling package of pixels and polygons!

Feast your eyes on the trailer for my devlog series in preparation for the demo!

It can be tricky to make a game and video series about development simultaneously but both are well underway and if you would like to be one of the first lads to go on a Blacksword stabaganza then join the Clambake Crew on Ko-fi![ko-fi.com]

You'll gain access to the Captain Blacksword demo in the coming months, you can post pictures on the Victorian Clambake Discord[discord.gg], you can try my unreleased games, and you'll get to learn about secret games in the development dockyard!

Most importantly, you'll be helping to keep this ship afloat during the doldrums between releases.

Fair winds to you all!
- The Captain

The past five years of Caribbean sailing have been fun but it's time to sail new waters.

It's time for this crew of one to hit the deck of a keyboard and start making digital canvas to catch the winds of fame for my next title.


Wishlist today on Steam!

Captain Blacksword is a secret filled combat platformer that was cut from the veins of an NES classic which you may have broken a controller over twenty some years ago.

Explore and unlock new abilities as you ravage the islands in any order you desire. You'll learn an array of skills from boarding axe jumps to digging up buried treasure in a quest for infamy.


Since my last Steam post there have been many days fraught with doldrums and this voyage is admittedly well behind schedule but before you start throwing your first born into the ocean to avenge the wind gods of the sea, I have a new tack and will be working on a sporadic schedule to bring this game to safe harbor.

I made it fifteen seconds into a promotional trailer before my vehicle was caught on a reef but my hull has been patched and we're back on course to begin in February!

Follow along on https://discord.gg/clambake for the latest updates or Youtube to see the first episode when it finally makes port!

Fair winds to you lads, I hope you'll join me on my next voyage!
- Evan, Captain of Victorian Clambake

... and don't forget to add my next game to your wishlist

Since that day, The Caribbean Sail has seen numerous updates, two major expansion packs released for free, a shanty off contest, a soundtrack release, a successful Kickstarter campaign which enabled the release of 100 physical copies, and over 14,000 sales globally.

Only one physical copy remains, package #69, and it's on the auction block: https://www.ebay.com/itm/354301415126

The production papers are also exclusively available https://victorian-clambake.itch.io/tcs-papers if you'd like to see behind the curtain a little and support my work further!

Since creating this whimsical name and sprinting naked into the wilderness with a blindfold on, Victorian Clambake has achieved two game releases on Steam, two game jam releases, and organizing a community of like-minded nautical nerds on Discord[discord.gg].

All I can say is... God, what a waste of time this all was.
I'm just yanking yer yardarm.

It's been a year of insanity and instability, my life has changed dramatically and what remains of the studio is currently in a pile of plastic bins but that's not what you care or about and it's not going to hold me back.

I've been working on another title for the past three years in tiny bursts of inspiration and next month I'll release the Steam page!

The lads on Discord[discord.gg] know more and have seen gameplay, you should be like the lads, join the server.

I've been pitching this idea for years but it wasn't feasible until now.

A development diary series released as monthly YouTube episodes to further grow our community, share my thoughts on games and development, and showcase the work that goes into creating a game!

They'll be short, fun, insightful, and coming next month if the wind is in our favor!

Keep your eyes on the horizon and sign up for the newlestter[victorianclambake.com] or follow along on Twitter so you don't miss a thing!

Fair winds to you all, I could have never made it this far without you.
- Captain of Victorian Clambake, Evan Massie