age of booty

Gameplay
largely revolves around the maneuvering of a boat around a sea. The sea
is made up of hexagons called Hexes. The player controls the boat by
selecting a hex for a destination. If the ship becomes adjacent to a
hex containing an enemy ship, merchant ship, town, or settlement, it
will automatically attack it with cannon fire. If more than one enemy
is adjacent, the ship will split its fire, firing at a different one
each time. The objective is to capture a certain number of towns. The
required number is displayed at the top right of the screen. To capture
a town the player must bombard it until it has no health left.[vague] A
bar then appears and the percentage the town is "captured" rises. The
only way capturing can be halted is for an enemy ship to move next to
the town; it must be destroyed for the capturing to continue.
Typical gameplay screenshot.

Players
control a 3D avatar of a pirate ship with colored sails depending on
which team they are on. Ships have three attributes that can be
upgraded: speed, armor, and cannon—each of which can be upgraded up to
three times. Speed determines how fast the player's ship sails, (A
faster ship will always enter a hex before a slower one.) armor
measures the amount of damage the ship can take before it is destroyed,
(Upgrading armor lengthens the life gauge.) and cannon measures the
damage the ship can cause. The Cannon attribute is displayed over the
ship as small squares under the life gauge. Upgrading attack strength
also decreases speed.

In the game players use different
resources to upgrade their towns and ships. There are three different
resource types: gold, wood and rum. 4 gold and 2 wood will upgrade a
town, and 4 rum and 2 wood upgrade ships. Players can acquire resources
by picking up boxes floating in the water, destroying enemy ships,
plundering villages or capturing towns and using them to produce
resources. Each town displays the resources it will produce with icons
floating over its avatar.

There are 7 different challenges for
solo play, each featuring 3 differing maps of easy, medium and hard
difficulty levels for total of 21 single player missions. Multi-player
has a four player public game and an eight player game, divided into
two teams. Players can use voice chat to talk with their team. There
are options for private games with friends.