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# Upcoming game about sea battles is made to resemble oil paintings
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/upcoming-game-sea-battles-made-resemble-oil-paintings/
- Published: 2016-08-23T15:00:50.000Z
- Updated: 2016-08-23T09:19:22.000Z
- Description: The brave elegance of ships at sea has fascinated artists since humans first took to the waves. The “Age of Sail” from the 16th to mid-19th century lifted maritime art to new heights, when sea battles, storms and huge, proud ships made naval painting its own genre. Collections like the National Mari
- Author: Maddi Chilton
- Tags: News, abandon ship, fireblade software, naval combat, painting, sailing, ships, uk games fund, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-26 09:39

The brave elegance of ships at sea has fascinated artists since humans first took to the waves. The “Age of Sail” from the 16th to mid-19th century lifted maritime art to new heights, when sea battles, storms and huge, proud ships made naval painting its own genre. Collections like the [National Maritime Museum](http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections.html?ref=killscreen.com#!csearch;collectionReference=subject-90258;authority=subject-90258) have hundreds of such paintings, many of which were [commissioned by naval officers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British%5FMarine%5FArt%5F%28Romantic%5FEra%29?ref=killscreen.com#Marine%5FArt%5Fand%5Fthe%5FBritish%5FPublic) or by [private collectors](http://penobscotmarinemuseum.org/pbho-1/marine-art/ship-portraits-art-history?ref=killscreen.com) with an affection for the subject.

A few games have attempted to take to the sea, like the aptly named *Age of Sail* (1996), *Sid Meier’s Pirates!* (2004), or the more recent *Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag* (2013), but none have yet looked to the beauty and power present in maritime art for visual inspiration.

![Stormy_sea_at_night](https://storage.ghost.io/c/25/84/2584b75d-4bd6-4cce-8259-f1d1c65abbb5/content/images/previously/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/stormy_sea_at_night.jpg)

*Ivan Aivazovsky’s “Stormy sea at night” via [Wikimedia](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stormy%5Fsea%5Fat%5Fnight.jpg?ref=killscreen.com)*

This is where *Abandon Ship* comes in. British studio Fireblade Software has received a grant from the [UK Games Fund](http://ukgamesfund.com/?ref=killscreen.com)—the same people who are funding procedural fairy tale generator *[Forest of Sleep](http://twistedtreegames.com/forest-of-sleep/?ref=killscreen.com)*—to create a naval combat game that looks like an oil painting. They’ve taken cues from *Sunless Sea* (2015) and *FTL: Faster Than Light* (2012) and aim to combine tactical battles with sea exploration, all while enduring harsh weather and encountering random events on a vast, procedurally generated sea.

If your ship is destroyed, you are able to start anew

In a unique take on permadeath, the game is tied not to your ship, but the character you play as Captain. If your ship is destroyed in battle or in a storm, you are able to start anew—assuming you can haul yourself out of the ocean and into a port. Perhaps you were lucky enough to disembark on a lifeboat before your vessel met a watery grave. Or maybe you’re stranded in the sea, but you see a boat in the distance and they rescue you before you can drown. Random events will take place whether you’re in a lifeboat or stranded, and if you’re able to make it back to dry land, you can build up a crew and take to the water once again.

As long as you’ve got a ship, you can explore. The sea is wild and dangerous, but that’s what makes it so enticing. The grandeur and mystery of a ship finally breaking its way out of a storm was irresistible to [J.M.W. Turner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FM.%5FW.%5FTurner?ref=killscreen.com#Art) and [Ivan Aivazovsky](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan%5FAivazovsky?ref=killscreen.com#Works), and it’s that same sense of wonder that has led to the creation of *Abandon Ship*.

*You can see the first screenshots of Abandon Ship on their* [*website*](http://abandonshipgame.com/?ref=killscreen.com)*.*

![AbandonShip_ExplorationVolcanicConcept](https://storage.ghost.io/c/25/84/2584b75d-4bd6-4cce-8259-f1d1c65abbb5/content/images/previously/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/abandonship_explorationvolcanicconcept.png)

![AbandonShip_Combat_Storm](https://storage.ghost.io/c/25/84/2584b75d-4bd6-4cce-8259-f1d1c65abbb5/content/images/previously/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/abandonship_combat_storm.png)