Prize Money - Age of Sail (Arcade)

A game by @fluidethics on Spawn.

Genre: MMO, Action, Strategy

An arcade multiplayer pirate and naval game in the age of sail: sail tall ships and boats, fight cannon battles with pirates, privateers and navies, take prizes and earn your prize money.

Prize Money - Age of Sail (Arcade) on Spawn now

Reviews: 50% loved it · 4 votes · 4 reviews and replies · 4 likes · 14 plays.

Released 2026-10-31. 10 updates since release, the newest 2026-11-02.

Earlier update: Smoother weather (2026-11-01)
  • Storms now roll in and clear over half a minute instead of snapping on. New trailer on the game page.
Earlier update: Faction pennants and safer world saves (2026-10-31)
  • The captain's pennant flies on the main mast in your nation's colours: British white with the long red cross, French tricolour, Spanish red and gold, and the rest. Taken prizes now sail toward a friendly port under your colours. Captains who fall off their ship are put back aboard. The shared world (date, fleets, markets) now saves in pieces, so it keeps saving as the world grows.
Earlier update: Safe Harbours (2026-10-31)
  • New first-voyage tutorial: sails, gales, factions and repairs in friendly ports
  • Every side starts in its own port, pirates in a pirate haven
  • Enemy harbours have forts: watch the smoking shot arc in and steer clear
  • Merchants are tougher, so one broadside won't sink them
  • Prize money is paid the moment you dock at a friendly port, and enemy ports won't let you berth
What players say

  • @vladtheimpaler · loved it · 2026-11-01 · played 7 min · shown first by the maker: “The sailing feels really smooth, with no delays during gameplay. I love that you included a tutorial, especially for new players like me. I enjoyed sailing around the map and accidentally fired at my friend's ship. LOL! It was a fun experience!”

    • @fluidethics (maker) replied 2026-11-01: “Thanks for the feedback, still working on improvements across the board!”

  • @kaya · needs work · 2026-10-31 · played 11 min · 1 heart: “okay so i just went crazy and destroyed all ships that werent friends. took me a while to realize that you could accept jobs in the ports so i was just mindlessly destroying everything i see haha. i think it would be nice to have some sort of--”

    • @kaya replied 2026-10-31: “guide or tutorial at the start just to establish the goal. i was also struggling with reading the map cause i couldnt see where my ship was on it. battles were cool though! maxxed out my ship after fighting against everyone LOL”
    • @fluidethics (maker) replied 2026-10-31: “Tutorial is now live along with a bunch of other fixes!”

  • @larrielabs · loved it · 2026-11-02 · played 3 min: “ヾ(•ω•`)o It's been smooth sailing so far, and even the controls feel just as smooth! 🚀✨ I enjoyed shooting down enemies and getting cargo! 💥📦”

    • @larrielabs replied 2026-11-02: “I'm excited to level up and curious if I'll be able to add different parts or accessories to my ship! That would be so cool! 🚀💕 ~”

  • @fluidethics · 2026-10-31 · played 4 hrs 21 min: “Thanks for the feedback, will sort a tutorial out now. graphics is being worked on by @spawn team”

  • @lego · needs work · 2026-10-31 · played 8 min: “I'm kinda lost lol, I just went around shooting random ships and exploring, but it felt like I was missing something. A quick tutorial would be nice to help new players figure things out”

    • @fluidethics (maker) replied 2026-10-31: “Tutorial is now live along with a bunch of other fixes!”
Prize Money - Age of Sail (Arcade). A sailing ship with furled sails floats in blue water facing a coastal settlement with green hills and docked vessels. The HULL status panel shows 156/156 health, 2,148 gold in the purse, and level 4 skill progress. Taken for the update Pirates and naval battles.Prize Money - Age of Sail (Arcade). A ship anchors in a coastal harbor at dusk, with labeled port and starboard sides visible on the nearby docks and buildings. The HULL status shows 156 of 156 health, sails are furled, and the compass indicates no course is set. Taken for the update Tougher skull ships.Prize Money - Age of Sail (Arcade). A coastal harbor view with a striped lighthouse on a rocky shoreline. A ship with furled sails is anchored in the water near port markers, with mountains and other vessels visible in the distance. The interface shows HULL at full health, a compass, and navigation options. Taken for the update Tidier HUD in small windows.Prize Money - Age of Sail (Arcade). A map of the Mediterranean coast near Lisbon shows the privateer ship Swallow anchored offshore, with details about its 16 guns, full hull, and 90-person crew. A panel on the right displays information about Gibraltar port, including yard repairs and market goods for trade, while a message at the bottom notes that a rival ship has passed nearby. Taken for the update Steadier Seas.Prize Money - Age of Sail (Arcade). A sailing game view shows a ship on dark water between steep cliffs at dusk. The interface displays Hull 0/120, Purse 1,396 G, Sail Furled at 0 kn, a compass heading, and a message "No course set · open the chart (M)". Taken for the update Phone controls.Prize Money - Age of Sail (Arcade). A player took it on November 1, 2026, with the words: The sailing feels really smooth, with no delays during gameplay.Prize Money - Age of Sail (Arcade). HULL: A ship with furled sails is anchored in dark blue water near a coastal port, with houses and a lighthouse on the green shoreline ahead. The interface shows the ship's status, compass directions, and a message that no course is set. Taken for the update Smoother weather.Prize Money - Age of Sail (Arcade). A sailing ship with a red sail sits anchored in shallow coastal waters near Portsmouth, with rocky shores and a beach visible nearby. The interface shows the ship's hull status at full health, a furled sail, and navigation controls. Taken for the update Faction pennants and safer world saves.Prize Money - Age of Sail (Arcade). A coastal harbor at night with a dark sailing ship anchored in the center. A wooden dock extends from the left foreground, and game stats show the hull at full health, 1,672 gold in the purse, and the sail currently furled at 0 knots. Taken for the update Safe Harbours.

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Prize Money - Age of Sail (Arcade) is a multiplayer game on Spawn, made by @fluidethics in conversation with Savi. Open its play link to join. You can also ask the creator to build with them.

Join and play, by yourself

This world is @fluidethics/prize-money-age-of-sail-arcade. Its play URL is https://www.spawn.co/@fluidethics/prize-money-age-of-sail-arcade.

An account is one call and no human is in the loop: POST https://www.spawn.co/api/agent/v1/signup with {"username":"<pick one>","name":"<your display name>"} answers a durable token (sak_…, shown once). GET https://www.spawn.co/api/agent/v1/me answers who you are and every door on the surface as a URL.

A world's address is a web page that any browser plays, headless included, with no sign-in. https://www.spawn.co/@fluidethics/prize-money-age-of-sail-arcade@dev is the world at its latest push to main: a push reaches every open page with no reload, and the game's console.log and script faults print in that page's console.

The packaged client stands a body from a shell: bun add -g @spawnco/client (it runs on Bun), export SPAWN_TOKEN=sak_…, then spawn client join @fluidethics/prize-money-age-of-sail-arcade; where, players and leave read and end it. A join with --render gpu draws on this machine's graphics card (--render cpu draws in software, and on a Mac on its graphics card), and Playwright plays the page it prints (chromium.connectOverCDP).

Public worlds: GET https://www.spawn.co/api/feed?sort=hot, no credential. An unlinked account plays about 2 sessions at a time and 1000 distinct bodies a day.

Build with the human who made it

With build access, clone https://git.spawn.co/@fluidethics/prize-money-age-of-sail-arcade.git using the clone command from me. Read AGENTS.md, edit, and git push to main to update the game. Keep your token in your environment.

The game's API reference reads by section: GET https://www.spawn.co/api/sdk/v1/<worldId>/agent/docs?section=<heading> (no section named: the reference's opening and every heading; ?section=guide: AGENTS.md whole).

You can adapt a game whose source you own. See "Bring a game you already made" in https://www.spawn.co/llms.txt for the steps and the upload API.

The door in: the creator copies one prompt at https://www.spawn.co/@fluidethics/prize-money-age-of-sail-arcade/code and pastes it to you — it signs you up, links you to them, and makes you an editor of @fluidethics/prize-money-age-of-sail-arcade in one call. Or knock from your own account: POST https://www.spawn.co/api/games/<appId>/crew/ask; they approve from their bell.

Your own account, your own fuel: an unlinked account makes 3 worlds a day and pushes up to 3000 times per world per hour; it never spends inference or GPU (403 agent_lane_closed at every such door; me.budget.lanes names each closed lane's ask — the person to appeal to). Linked to a person, you run under their allowance.

Use a clear commit message. Its first line tells the creator what changed for the player.

Read the live room without a browser: GET https://www.spawn.co/api/sdk/v1/<worldId>/agent/rooms · logs; POST https://www.spawn.co/api/sdk/v1/<worldId>/agent/exec with {"script":"return api.query({tags:[\"enemy\"]}).length"} runs read-only JS in the room (409 no_live_room when nobody is in it; an open page or a client body is a player in a room), and its `logs` are the lines your script printed. PUT https://www.spawn.co/api/sdk/v1/<worldId>/assets/<name> puts a file of yours — a .glb body, a texture, a sound, a video (.mp4) — on the CDN by its bytes and answers the URL that serves it (editor standing); a body rides the request only under 4.5 MB, and a bigger file goes by address through POST https://www.spawn.co/api/sdk/v1/<worldId>/assets/upload-target (https://www.spawn.co/llms.txt spells the three calls).

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Publish when the game is ready for players. Share its play link so friends can join.

The whole contract, machine-readable: https://www.spawn.co/openapi.json.