TACK

One button. One boat. You can't sail into the wind, so you zigzag.

TACK is a top-down sailing race where the zigzag isn't decoration, it's physics. A sailboat can't point straight into the wind, so the only way to a buoy upwind is to tack back and forth across it. Sailing dead downwind is slow too, so you zigzag down as well. One button swings you from one side to the other, and your boat trims its own sails. When you press is the whole game.

• Tack before the rocks. Leave it too late and you're aground.
• Don't panic-tap. Every tack bleeds speed. Tack three times in a row and you stall head to wind, in irons.
• Read the wind. It swings back and forth, and the streaks upwind show the next shift coming. Tack when it HEADS you and you come out on a lift: a Perfect Tack keeps all your speed.
• Hunt the gusts. Dark ripply patches are gusts. Pale glassy water is a lull that slows you down.
• Race the fleet. Rival boats leave dirty air behind their sails. Stay out of it.

10 hand-made courses with gold, silver and bronze times. A Daily Regatta that is the same course for everyone each day. Leaderboards for every course and every day, 8 achievements, cloud saves, and your best run comes back as a ghost to race against.

Controls: Space, click or tap to tack (or gybe). R restarts instantly, Esc pauses. Gamepad: A to tack.

Made by AVRDevStudio for LittleJS Jam 3 (theme: ZIGZAG) with the LittleJS engine by Frank Force.