Cute. Shame the basic physics are wrong; a narrowboat is tiller driven (you push the controls left to go right) and rotates about its center, whereas this is closer to the front. Also reversing flips the dynamics, is much less directionally stable than forward motion, and introduces the Fun of both prop walk and potential cavitation.

Plus a real canal boat simulator would put a weed hatch incident well before a tidal wave.

Can’t believe I’ve been living on one of these things since before we discovered we were in the mirror timeline.

Speaking of: Who played Ports of Call in the 80s? I recently learned that the game is still maintained with a release in 2024.

https://portsofcall.de

Reading this I totally feel the hacker vibes that carried me through my teens. Just sitting down and building something cool for the fun of it. Nice work! I once did something similar in C to create a 2d isometric training campus where I could teach others C on a whiteboard. I made the walls in Paint, just like you mentioned! One of the most fun things I ever made.

Excellent! I lived on a boat like this for many years and never knew about the risk of sudden tsunamis.

I like that you can go under the trees.

Thank you for adding a finish point, I was getting anxious and started to hope that the tsunami would get me so that the game is over. Great idea and great implementation.

In case people are confused (like I was) when starting the game,

use arrow keys

Slightly reminiscent of the canal boat chase in Wallace and Gromit's 'Vengeance most fowl' (which is a great parody of Hollywood action sequences).

Enjoyed taking a canal boat and treating it like a Bangkok Longtail speedboat !