Game Release Party!

Pirate Party: Women of the High Seas card game is now available. 

Join us for a celebration at these release parties and demo days:

Saturday, August 27, 2022 from noon – 4 pm at Blue Highway Games, 2203 Queen Anne Ave N, Seattle WA.

Saturday, September 17, 2022 from noon – 4pm at Anime Kat, 114 W 1st St, Port Angeles, WA. Just in time for Talk Like A Pirate Day!

Game designer Marge Rosen will be playing the game and can quickly teach anyone to play quickly. Come out and have some fun on Saturday! Free, family-friendly event.

May Game News

Good News!

Shanghai is reopening and we just got word the game factory is starting to slowly come back to the production line. Pirate Party: Women of the High Seas is ready for mass production and should be complete in early June.  Freight from China to USA is being booked and the games should be available in August.

See the details on Gamefound

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Pirate Party on Tour!

Pirate Party: Women of the High Sea will be at Puddle Jump Play Festival on Saturday, June 18 at Ballard Homestead in Seattle.

Join us to play the game and see a live demo. Details and tickets at PuddleJumpPlay.

Get the Kickstarter limited edition with all stretch rewards, solo player mode, TWO free Seaport Solitaire games, and more!

Pirate Party Game Makes the Sunday Paper!

Pirate Party Makes The Peninsula Daily News Sunday Paper

Pirate Party: Women of the High Seas and the Seaport Games story was featured on the front page of section B of the Peninsula Daily New Sunday paper on October 3, 2021.  The article took the entire full page!   This is an amazing amount of coverage for Seaport Games, a start-up business and the Pirate Party Kickstarter project.  It is wonderful to receive this level of support from the community of Port Angeles and the entire North Olympic Peninsula.  Everyone at Seaport Games is thrilled!

Read the article online HERE

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Marge Rosen

Marge Rosen

Game Designer

Marge Rosen is a Game Designer for Seaport Games.  She designed the game Pirate Party: Women of the High Seas.  When she isn’t playing games, she’s playing music.

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Pirate Party: Women of the High Seas

Features six vibrant, diverse, historical women pirate captains with special powers in this twist on pirate card games.

Race to collect sets of cards by suit that include a captain and crew or sets of 3-of-a-kind. Plunder, pillage and raid from other players to take the largest pirate booty. Mermaid wild cards, period ships, and plenty of adventure. Just beware the Kraken!

 

Can You Talk Like A Pirate?

Can You Talk Like A Pirate?

We are getting ready for Talk Like A Pirate Day on Sunday, September 19, 2021!  Let’s have some fun brushing up on some pirate terms and pirate lingo — savvy?

Take this fun quiz and see (no punctuation, please).  The person with the most correct answers wins! Include your email address for a chance to win a stylish Seaport Games die-cut sticker!  One entry per person/email address. The contest ends September 19, 10pm Pacific Time.

 

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Launched on Kickstarter!

Launched on Kickstarter!

Make this game a reality!

Pirate Party: Women of the High Seas card game has launched on Kickstarter.

This is your opportunity to help bring this game to life.  You can make meaningful contributions to this project by:

  • Play testing the game for free online during this campaign (Tabletop Simulator on Steam or Tabletopia)
  • Providing constructive feedback
  • Sharing the project with your network of friends and family
  • Subscribing to the newsletter below
  • Joining the Facebook group HERE
  • Pledging your financial support in any amount right for you

Every pledge counts!

Help us as we strive to bring gender equity and diversity to games.  Support games with strong women characters.

Women Pirates

Women Pirates

Were there any famous female pirates? 

Happy International Women’s Day!  Let’s celebrate these famous female pirates. 

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Anne Bonny

Anne Bonny (1697-1733). Engraving from General History of the Pyrates (1st Dutch Edition 1725) by Captain Charles Johnson 

Anne Bonny was one of the most famous female pirates of all time.

Bonny was an Irishwoman that dressed like a boy from childhood.   She married then moved to Nassau in the Bahamas, a safe haven for pirates of the Caribbean.  

She had an affair with another pirate captain, John “Calico Jack” Rackham, escaped with him and became his lover and partner. Anne disguised herself as a man aboard ship, but was happily surprised to meet another woman pirate aboard Calico Jack’s sloop named Mary Read.

In popular culture, Bonny is featured in the video game, Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag

 

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Mary Read

Mary Reed (1685-1721), also known as Mark Read, was an English pirate.  Read lived most of their life as a man, favoring men’s clothing from an early age.  Read acted and lived as a man and even served in the British army. Read worked as a “powder monkey” carrying gunpowder to the cannons on a British ship.  It is reported that she fell in love with another soldier, revealed her gender, and the two married.  After her husband’s untimely death, Mary Read returned to living as a man.  

In 1715 Read sailed to the West Indies, but the ship was raided by Buccaneers and she joined them, either by choice or by force.  Read developed a reputation for ruthless violence and foul language.  

In 1720, Reed met Calico Jack and joined his crew.  Shortly after, Mary Read was captured along with Calico Jack and Anne Bonny.  All three were sentenced to hanging, but Anne and Mary had their executions stayed because both were pregnant.

 

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Ching Shih

Ching Shih (1775-1844), born Shih Yang, also known as Cheng I Sao, was a Chinese pirate captain.  

She was a prostitute or madame who worked in a floating brothel.  Cheng developed  skills of manipulation, deception and survival which she leveraged to become one of the most successful, feared, and influential pirates in history.  

In 1801 she married Cheng Yi, a successful pirate captain.  This was one of many strategic partnerships that launched her great pirate career, leading to success and prosperity. She commanded a fleet of hundreds of ships know as junks that raided the fishing vessels, merchant ships, and coastal villages of Southern China.

After her husband died and she secured the fleet’s leadership position, Ching Shih started uniting the fleet of 50,00 men by issuing a code of laws. Some sailors were allowed to bring their wives and children to live aboard ship.

Ching Shih inspired the character Mistress Ching, played by actress Takayo Fischer, in the 2007 film Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End.

 

Corsair to Admiral

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Corsair to Admiral

Barbarossa (Red Beard)

Barbarossa was the most feared corsair sailing the Mediterranean Sea during the early 16th century.   He sank ships, seized many Spanish galleons, and attacked coastal castles for the Ottoman Empire. Barbarossa retook Algiers from Spain in 1526.

Originally named Khizr, he was born on a Greek island to a family of sailors.  Khizr began his career as a corsair under his elder brother Oruc.  In 1516 they captured Algiers from Spain and Oruc named himself the Sultan.

After Oruc’s death in 1518, Khizr inherited his brother’s nickname – Barbarossa (Italian for “Red beard”) and received the honorary name Hayreddin.

With his successful pirating exploits and excellence in seamanship, he later became a grand admiral in the Ottoman Navy.  He was also known as Hızır Hayrettin Pasha, the King of the Sea and Pirate of Algiers.

How Many Pirates can you name?

Pirate

A person who attacks and robs ships at sea. A rogue, scoundrel or lawless adventurer of the sea. Also known as corsair, buccaneer, privateers, raider, rover, marauder, freebooter, picaroon, and sea wolf, among others.

Pirate legends and the allure of pirate treasure made some of the most infamous pirate captains the inspiration for novels, pop culture, and blockbuster movies.

How many real, historical pirates can you name?

Did you have to search to find more than three names?

Barbarossa, Italian for Red Beard, sailed the Mediterranean in the early 16th century as a corsair attacking Spanish galleons and coastal castles.

Blackbeard, born Edward Teach in England, sailed the Atlantic and Caribbean in the early 1700s during the Golden Age of pirates. He joined the Royal Navy and also sailed as a privateer before becoming the most well known pirate captain in the world.

Black Bart, born John Roberts, was a Welsh pirate who raided ships off the Americas and West Africa between 1719 and 1722. He was the most successful pirate of the Golden Age of Piracy as measured by vessels captured, taking over 400 prizes in his career.