Rough seas
High risk. High reward.
Simulated readout — live weather feed not yet bridged to this surface.
The Salty Anchor · Harbor board
Rule the High Seas
From bloodstained decks to sunken fortunes, only the bold carve their legend into the tide. Build your crew. Claim your ship. Become a legend.
Pre-release build · ranked voyages and published logs already live · paid store claim waits on a verified Android artifact.
🌊 Animated sea mood 📜 Published logs 🗺 AoE world ⚔️ Ranked captains
Harbor status board
- Convoy raid reported off Brinehook Shoals 6h ago
- New bounty posted at The Salty Anchor 9h ago
- Tavern incident: harbor watch dispersed a quarrel 14h ago
- Blackwake Union gains faction pressure in the east 1d ago
- #1 Marrowbyte
- #2 Sable Anne Rackham
- #3 El Toro de Sal
- #4 Dutch Rudderstorm
There is no calm water east of Gallows Lantern — just water that has not measured you yet.
— Captain's log · excerpt
Public community seam
Wave one starts proving BoatNet inside the PixelBoats shell.
Rankings and realm entry cues now read from public BoatNet projections when the backend is available, while static fallback content keeps the marketing build coherent everywhere else.
Season signal
Summer 2026
#1 · Marrowbyte
BrassGullsHarbor Warden · Brinehook Shoals · 1842 rating
#2 · Sable Anne Rackham
BlackwakeUnionStorm Cartographer · Gallows Lantern · 1819 rating
#3 · El Toro de Sal
BrassGullsCrate Interceptor · Copperwake Run · 1791 rating
Saleable slice
A live-wallpaper lane before the whole game has to be finished.
The current public promise is intentionally narrow: prove the visual system, draft the Google Play metadata, gather screenshots, then only claim paid availability after an Android artifact is tested.
PixelBoats Live Wallpaper.
Working metadata focuses on animated pixel-art seas, pirate ship ambience, cozy nautical backgrounds, and calm/action scene presets.
📱Artifact before claims.
Paid unlocks, install metrics, and ranking claims wait for a real Android build, on-device screenshots, and Play Store test-track proof.
✅ASO changes the product brief.
Keyword research turns a broad game prototype into a store-ready checklist: title, short description, screenshot captions, feature graphic, and claim boundary.
✦Product proof stack
A real repo slice that can feed screenshots, store copy, and launch notes.
This marketing site stays static-ready while the product track gathers proof for Android, future store pages, and Canopy case-study writing.
Water mood becomes a product asset.
The visual language around waves, drips, storms, and ship silhouettes becomes screenshot material instead of only route decoration.
🌊Logs, world, rankings.
Static SvelteKit routes become proof pages for world tone, community hooks, and future release notes.
🧭Competitive hooks stay secondary.
Rankings and profiles are useful game proof, but they do not distract from the smaller wallpaper launch lane.
🏆AoE pressure map.
Ports, factions, storms, hazards, events, and region cards without city-builder bloat.
🗺Published dispatches.
Captain logs, battle reports, dev notes, rumours, and replay-linked story slots.
📜Visual proof
Current UI captures and design boards fill the proof gap.
PixelBoats now shows real product evidence: the Aurora operating layer, a cropped live workspace, and the design boards behind the world, UI, and water direction.
The developer operating layer now gives PixelBoats a visible hub for routes, proof surfaces, status, and launch work.
A public crop of the game-dev workspace, focused on the world viewport that turns internal progress into screenshot evidence.
Environment pieces, ships, props, and world texture ideas that frame the visual product lane before a store claim is made.
A broader art direction board for the water mood, shoreline reads, and environmental palette that can feed captures.
Interface assets, icons, badges, and panel language that connect game proof to a launch-ready product surface.
A compact view of the water-rendering direction: texture language, foam notes, shader intent, and proof checkpoints.
Sea chart reveal
Explore the map in scraps, then reveal the bigger waters.
The marketing surface should tease the world like an old game manual: left, center, and right chart pieces around a larger map still fogged out by unexplored waters.
Brinehook Shoals
A starter-water slice with sandbars, fruit trails, wreckage lanes, and low-risk convoy trouble.
The Salty Anchor
Port hub, tavern recruitment, captain logs, rumours, bounties, and the first social anchor point.
Gallows Lantern
Storm pressure, cursed wrecks, ghost rumours, and darker faction routes beyond the safe tide.
⚓ ✦ !
Unexplored waters
Big map, small truths.
Use this as a future landing section for regions, fog-of-war reveals, event seasons, faction control, and shareable chart fragments from player logs.
Crew-made signal
A few old-school promo kit nods, not a whole footer takeover.
Keep it as a front-page tease: future downloads for fans, streamers, press, and anyone building little PixelBoats pages, overlays, posts, or community tools.
Badges, flags, stickers.
Small branded bits that feel like old boxed-game extras, not corporate brochure filler.
Overlays, GIF loops, chart scraps.
Material for videos, devlogs, launch posts, fan sites, and stream scenes.
Screens, logos, capsule copy.
Just enough structure that future coverage does not require digging through Discord rubble.
Realm access
BoatNet identity now lives inside the PixelBoats product shell.
Public routes now pull safe BoatNet projections for rankings, logs, and proof blocks. Authenticated chat, roster, and guild presence share the canonical `/pixelboats` API and cookie boundary.
Session
Checking realm access…
Checking the PixelBoats BoatNet session.
Join the crew
Get summoned when the visual product track leaves port.
Early-access placeholder only. The paid store CTA waits until the Android artifact, screenshots, and listing are verified.