As you continue to play the game, you notice that every world has huge Titans in it that affect the water levels massively so even if you are on an island, it will often get submerged in water as water levels continue to rise and fall.Īs you continue to craft and put down various items for your use, you will start making and putting down water crystals to help you manipulate water. Since you are on a bunch of islands, naturally there’s tons of water around you in the game. You literally get to play around with water as you use yellow crystals to displace water and move it around according to your will. What sets Breakwaters apart from the regular craft-and-survive titles is the amazing water design and mechanics. Apart from that, the game will generate a world for you on its own which you can enter and play either solo or with your friends.

There is basic character creation at the start of the title, and you have the freedom to name your world as well. Breakwaters features a procedurally generated world which means that every time you start a game, it will feature a new world for you to explore. At its core, it is a crafting sim where you must craft various things in order to survive in the world, but the more focus of the title is on its story where you must investigate the various titans and their connection with the world of Breakwaters. At the time of publication of this review, Breakwaters is in a pretty stage of Early Access, so this review represents the current state of the title.īreakwaters is not particularly a survival sim because you did not crash on an island. This is our review of the Early Access release of Breakwaters in which we control water using yellow crystals and take on huge titans. Breakwaters is their brand-new project, and it is out now on Steam in Early Access where the developer intends to develop the title alongside players and their feedback. Authors may use MDPI'sĮnglish editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.Breakwaters is a new action-adventure title developed and published by Soaring Pixel Games which is a studio comprising of just five people. Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2000 CHF (Swiss Francs). Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts should be submitted online at by registering and logging in to this website.

The scope of this Special Issue covers the range of subjects relevant to not only breakwaters, but also coastal engineering problems related to breakwaters. We invite researchers from both academia and industry to submit original articles that advance the state of the art in breakwaters or review the progress and future directions of research in this field. All types of breakwaters are involved, such as gravity-type breakwaters, pile-type breakwaters, floating breakwaters, and so on. In particular, this Issue deals with breakwater design and reinforcement methods to efficiently respond to the increase in design wave height due to climate change. This Special Issue focuses on breakwater design.

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