Play the RYA Volvo Sail for Gold Game to test your virtual racing skills and gain an understanding into world-class sailing from the comfort of your living room.
Online sailors are challenged to master the art of one of Britain's most successful Olympic sports using touchscreen gestures to gybe, tack and sail around a championship course, in the fastest time, whilst collecting bonus stars to increase their scores.
Don’t forget to leave your score on the online leader-board to see if you have what it takes to be crowned the ‘Sail for Gold Game’ Champion.
Steering input is sketchy at best…no consistent correlation to how much finger movement equals how much rudder so you’re constantly turning to much or not enough.
Maybe give the option to use the g-sensors like the driving games?
A course overview before the start would be nice, as would a chance to start on the port tack.
Good, could be great
This game is fun for what it is, but it’s not exactly a simulator.
The penalties are a bit screwy (I think it misunderstands the overlap rules.)
Bit two improvements would really help. The player should not be on starboard tack all the time. Also a prestart would be great
And it would be awesome if there could be some accounting for wind blocking. So the trailing boat could make the downwind boat go.
Something to fix
It is fun, but sailing rules are wrong in this game.
Good Sailing Game
Great game--very good physics. I wish I could see the course beforehand and/or adjust the view. Need to know where I'm headed prior to the mark rounding.
Crashes all the time
It consistently crashes on certain boats.
Furthermore, when it does work, you always start on a port tack with the committee boat in the way, thereby allowing the computer boat to win 9 times out of 10. The computer boat always starts on a starboard rack.
Decent sailing game. Needs work.
Game is pretty good. Need ability to adjust competition level. Needs more than two courses. Need to change the direction of the wind from course to course. Need a knot speedometer.
Needs work
This game is really fun, but some of the penalties are messed up. I'll get penalized for hitting a port tack boat while on starboard tack. It also penalizes the leeward boat for hitting the windward boat, when the opposite should actually be the penalty. Also it's super annoying that the player always starts on port tack. I almost always hit the committee boat unless I turn up into the wind more than I want to. A 10-20 second start sequence would be a lot more fun and realistic!
Great game but a few problems
This game is great fun! Being a sailor it makes this game even better. I love the different classes and how u can see your rankings. However the penalties are a little messed up. Also I've found that u need to one tak almost every race. I still like it but it needs a fixing.