I'm happy to announce the release of Sinking Simulator: Legacy This is the old 2013 version with a few minor additions. Notably the material table and ships updated/designed exclusively for this build. You can buy the game Here Sinking Simulator: Legacy is meant to help revive Sinking Simulator and possibly spawn more. Turning Sinking Simulator into a paid game helped me tremendously, but it wa…
Hello everyone, Long time no see. I've been thinking about making this announcement for a while but I wasn't sure how to do it. I figured I'd be straight to the point What happened? Well... We had plans for a few updates down the line back in early 2020, Unfortunately, I'm sure you all know what happened that year... Since the game has been Free we didn't really make any profit. This means, onc…
Hello everyone Come join me Tonight at 9:30PM as I will make an attempt to sink the Titanic in a similar amount of time it did in real life of course due to the game being in 2D it's impossible to have an accurate representation of the events nonetheless it doesn't prevent us to try to make our own approximation.
Hello everyone! For quite some time, we’ve been discussing potential ways to improve the game’s collision while remaining simple enough to allow complex designs. For the sake of simplicity and helping you folks visualize what I mean, I’ve used the software “Algodoo” in order to demonstrate the idea using a similar system. You can download it here : We believe we’ve found an elegant solution to…
Hello everyone As many of your likely know already, the Workshop is full of re-uploads. Unfortunately its not an easy task to ban every single one of them so I would like to invite the community to report re-uploads of ships We will also have to get a couple of moderators to help cleaning up the workshop A new tag "Not Spam" has been added temporarily to help ordering the workshop An Admin/Mode…
Hello everyone I made an announcement a while ago where I asked people to help sharing or donating money to a GoFundMe campaign for my brother who was diagnosed with brain cancer Thankfully, he has made a full recovery, his chemotherapy worked and he's getting better now. I wanted to thanks everyone of you who shared or donated money. However, I know not everyone are this lucky. Many people can…
Hello everyone! I wanted to let you all know the testing build has merged to the main build. For those who aren't aware here's a quick summary of the new features You can read more about them here: We now have the Steam Workshop integration To upload your creation on the steam workshop follow these simple steps · If your creation is already in the game: · Click and spawn your creation · Go on t…
Hello everyone! Fred has been hard at work and managed to get a new "Fake" Lighting system into the game This is an update to the Testing Branch. It will become public in a few days if there aren't any major issues. What is a fake lighting system? Essentially, this is a Shader which change the appearance of the texture based on ambient light. They also support all colours We have 2 shaders · ex…
Hello everyone! this is a minor update for the testing branch we want to make sure nothing is broken before we make it public If everything goes well it will become public in a few days. What's new? · Improved Ship loader · New Ships · Ship Proprieties Editor · Bugfix The Toolbox and ship loaders were changed a little bit. It is not possible to create a new ship or to edit the proprieties of th…
NPC Idea Hello everyone!, I wanted to let you know our current Idea for the potential implementations of NPCs into the game. The following is mostly Hypothetical, it doesn't mean the final result will happen nor could it be exactly as described below, ---------------------------------- By using the multi layer system I thought it would be good to create some sort of NPC character and Nodes The…
Hello everyone! We are exited to let you know the steam workshop should be working now! The update also includes an attempt to fix some of the earlier crashes. it is only available on the Testing branch, (see the previous announcement for instructions)
Hello everyone! I wanted to let you know I've pushed the latest experimental build into the "Testing" branch of the game The new loader allows everyone to spawn their creation in a simple click of the mouse no need to drag the image into the game anymore If you wish you run the experimental build, go to the game's proprieties and select the testing branch in the Betas tab The following only add…
We plan to eventually add compatibility with the typical shaders such as: - Ambient occlusion - Normal map - Height map These 3 combined will make 2D ships into 3D objects
Hello everyone I will try to make this short This post is here for me to ask the community if you guys think we should make a Patreon page. It was often suggested by multiple people over the last few years but I always refused under the principle that I don't like to lock content behind a paywall and the lack of proper organisation. Not only that, but the game is being worked on as a hobby. We…
Hello everyone This is a quick post to let you all know the game should be working fine now. Of course, this is assuming the previous updated broke something. The game won't work for people with various low tier video card, (especially laptops) Merry Christmas
Hello everyone This is a quick post to let you all know the game should be working fine now for everyone please take note the update has only been pushed on the Testing branch to check it please follow these steps: - Right click on the game in your steam library - Click on Proprieties - Click on the Betas tab - Select the Testing branch in the drop down menu If the game works, you should also h…
Hello everyone It appears the latest update broke something which crashes the game for people with AMD Cards that ought to be compatible We're sorry for the inconvenient it will be Fixed as soon as possible In the meantime we've made a temporary build using the previous build. It should work fine for you guys - Right click on the game in your library, - Click on Proprieties - Go on the Beta Tab…
Hello everyone! I am here to announce a new update to the game The update is live, As always, please let us know if you are having any issues with it What's new? - Reorganized the toolbox - Added Tooltips - Added Icons for tools (placeholder) - Added Hotkeys 1-4 for the tools - Added Simulation physics sliders - Added Colour selection for Water What's fixed? - Fixed the Crash when minimizing th…
Hello everyone Please, take note that I do not wish to make this kind of posts. I will keep the Announcement and other notification exclusively for the game However, this is something very important to me and it's my only way to reach a lot of people. I would like to apology in this annoys you in any ways, It won't happen again Essentially, my Brother has been diagnosed with a Brain Tumour, whi…
Hello everyone! This is our First Milestone on Steam, In just over 1 month and a half, we've "sold" over 100'000 copies of Sinking Simulator Many thanks to all of you folks. The game has been available for years on other platforms such as IndieDB and Gamejolts If we combine all of the platforms together we get very close to 1 Millions total downloads in the past 4 years. This is incredible. It…
Hello everyone, I wanted to talk about our views and politics on DLCs First, I need you guys to understand one thing. The development of this game is essentially a Hobby. It is not a full time project and it just cannot be a full time project as the market is not strong enough. We've also decided to keep the game free for the simple fact if people had to pay for it, they'd have a higher expecta…
Hello folks If you had an issue similar to the following screenshot, well, it should be fixed now Please, let us know if that is still happening Thank you
Hello everyone, This is a little update to tell you the ships folder should be working fine now There was an issue with Users permissions that prevented the game to properly extract the ships at the right place, this caused the folder to be empty Instead of extracting the ships, we've added all the ships into the game directory and linked that folder instead of a newly generated one The button…
Missing Ships! We had a lot of people who had an issue with the ships folder It seems the game didn't extracted the ships properly which resulted with an empty folder This is why we have made this little update. Now, the ships folder is included in the main directory of the game To find it, simply follow these simple instructions: · Right click on the game in your steam library · Click on Propr…
Relentless crashing has caused a lot of frustration among the community, sorry about that. We hadn't planned for such a massive influx of new players upon launch, which just worsened the situation. We have isolated the cause of the issue in the GUI framework we used, and have replaced it completely with an alternative. The new version should be far more stable.
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