GALE WARNING
A free browser game from Core Systems Asset Factory. Genre: Simulation, Strategy. Free.
GALE WARNING is a free browser game, free to play in the browser.
Your office never sees the weather. It sees what the telegraph wires in. GALE WARNING is a free forecasting game for your browser. It is 1861, and you run the first storm-warning office on a western coast. Lows cross the sea from the west, the fishing fleets of eleven ports sail at five every morning, and before they go you decide, district by district, whether to hoist the cone that keeps them home.
How it plays The stations wire their readings at 20:00, and you decide overnight, before the fleets sail at five. The chart is drawn from those readings and nothing else: cream isobars, a wind arrow at every station that reported a wind, a red hatch where your own chart shows a gale. A low your network cannot see is simply not on it. Hoist a cone over a district and its fleets stay home.
A fleet caught at sea by a gale loses boats and the ports lose trust in the office. A cone on a calm day costs the catch and a little trust. A gale that finds the fleets safe at home earns it. Build telegraph stations on the coast and the islands. Each line runs along the shore to the office; an island needs submarine cable, and a gale can bring a line down for a day.
AI disclosure, as the store page states it: AI Assisted, Code, Graphics, Text
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