I have a vision of a fairytale about a baby goat playing with a toy boat in a clawfoot bathtub…
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Depends on what kind of fairy tales you have in mind…
You are carrying a goat (sacrifice), a gold ring (payment), your axe (wielded), a bottle of wine (closed), and your loincloth (being worn).
The Brothers Grimm? 
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“A Mind Forever Voyaging” is about thinking during long boat trips, right?
I haven’t played it due to the copy protection issues…I’m just guessing based on the title.
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Yes, this is tricky, I forgot a few levels!
We already had one NPC that was an AI steering the ship last year (Long Way to the Nearest Star.) So I think a character like that (11) needs to be differentiated from the ship itself as an for-real sentient being (12).
Well played, very well played 
… certainly that’s what I had the impression of when I saw the cover art. I was surprised how different it actually was!
(And yeah, years later it was neat to see the code wheel broken down into a table. Though I was extra thrilled to see Bard’s Tale III’s far more complex code wheel get the treatment.)
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My game scores a 1. I feel so ashamed.
I’m desperately thinking about how to shoehorn a nautical theme into a post-comp release. Hmmm. In the meantime here’s my contribution. (NB. huge apologies to Etheroxyde for their lovely artwork!).
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That is beautiful!
I guess my full (I stress that because it’s unlikely you guys will see that in the 2 hours you have) game’s probably a 4. Two of the eleven parts take place on a spaceship, and there is one part where you can end up hanging from the bottom of a zeppelin, but you die immediately after.
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big ten ? In Naval term, this refers to the USN’s great armoured cruisers of 120 years ago, the six Pennsylvanias and the four Tennessees, later renamed with city names for freeing their names to Standard BB (the standard battleship was those @ pearl Harbour, whose indeed follow a standard pattern, gradually improved class by class; incidentally the last two classes, the two Tennessees and the three Colorados was referred as the “Big five”)
(remember, I can easily mix up US states, but I never mix up US BB…)
on boatiness quotient, well, having easily solved thanks to that great fun movie, operation petticoat the NPC issue, go figure that is best not tempt anyone into a (material) treasure hunt in form of a “midnight requisition” involving a just-stricken big, honking, thick-hided Steel Leviathan… go figure that is easily a 20/10…
so, I ask, is wise for everyone that I dismiss this thread ?
Best regards from Italy,
dott. Piergiorgio.
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GODS AND GODDESESS FORBIDS !!!
if there’s a “videogame” I strongly hate, is that “kancolle” thing…
Best regards from Italy,
dott. Piergiorgio.
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This made me laugh, although for the record, I’m an SEC guy.
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Dude, until there’s a spreadsheet, this is all just empty talk!! 
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There’s still time to submit a special prize!
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Would the ships from Anne McCaffrey’s Ship Who Sang universe be 11 or 12?
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Oh, that’s incredible. I love it.
(And yes I should have made a single post instead of three, but I was writing them before I got to the bottom of the thread. Oops.)
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Quick, 3D-print a penteconter!
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“This special prize will go to the BOAT GOAT: the game that had the highest sum of average rating and boatiness quotient.”
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(cue IFComp 2024 with 26 different entries of Boaty McBoatface’s Adventures)
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A game where you are the ship could be a lot of fun! I’m imagining one where you’re an AI that’s gone rogue, or a ghost haunting the ship, or something like that—you can observe any room, and open and close doors and the like, but can’t interact with portable objects, so you need to manipulate the crew into doing what you want.
Maybe you’re the ghost of the engineer who died of a radiation leak in the spaceship’s reactor, and now you’re haunting the computer system to ensure someone else can fix it so that the ship can make it to its destination.
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The Taffy factory where Mayor McFreeze is found is beside the docks. Some boats there, I expect.
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