Saltwake Downloads

The first release of Saltwake: a watersports roguelite where the sea
remembers. Audio-first and screen-reader-first.

Added

• Six watersports contests played by ear: boat racing, jet ski slalom,
  free-dive salvage, storm crossings, fishing, and rescue tows, all driven
  by stereo-panned cues with spoken twins.
• Roguelite tides: branching sea-chart headings across four regions
  with reach-warden bosses, per-run Tidings (boons), beacons, caches, and
  squalls. Salvage banks to pearls in full at homecoming, half on a wreck.
• A novel-scale story (~17,500 words, 100+ storylets): a three-act
  mystery told Hades-style across runs on a Sunless Sea style quality
  engine, with six NPC relationship arcs, wreck-greeting beats, a readable
  Drowned Almanac, and post-game epilogues.
• Meta progression: renown levels, six vessels, permanent gear, and
  post-victory Tide Marks difficulty.
• An 18-track procedural soundtrack (~13 minutes of loops) rendered
  from seeded specs at first launch; F2 toggles, F3/F4 set volume.
• Accessibility throughout: Prism speech (NVDA, JAWS, SAPI, VoiceOver,
  Speech Dispatcher), BASS audio via sound_lib with pygame fallback, a
  paged spoken manual, navigable Chronicle and Almanac, R/T/H information
  keys, and a visual mirror of the last spoken line.
• Portable by design: saves and the music cache live in the game's own
  directory; unzip and run.