We searched high and low for something to keep us going as we waited for Football Manager 2016. We chanced upon something nearly as addictive. Pixel Piracy is a stupid, simple, infuriating and all-consuming bastard of a game. You’re a pirate. You have a little boat. You sail off, plunder, and then return to spend the money on a couple of members of crew so that you can plunder bigger prizes. But now you need a bigger boat. So you plunder more, get more money and make your boat bigger. But now your pirates have defecated all over your ship and no-one will clean it up. So you spend more money teaching one of them to clean. But now you need to feed them, and so on and so forth. As with all of these things, the real joy comes in quickly editing the names of the pirates. On my game, I had a ship full of football writers. Miguel Delaney had a flintlock pistol. Jonathan Wilson had a cutlass. They were evil, but then Wilson died of scurvy and I was sad. Then I realised I’d be playing for four hours and it was nearly 2am. And I’m 37. Read more: http://thesetpieces.com/monday-briefing/the-monday-briefing-021115/
