THE BOWSPRIT

About

The Bowsprit is a one-person studio. Two games, both set in a cold northern sea: Lantern, about a keeper’s work on an island, and Broadside, about fighting ships under sail.

They have more in common than it looks. The same water, the same weather, the same way of watching a horizon — and the same question: what a person does when there is nothing around but the sea and the work.

A bowsprit is the spar that runs out past the stem. The headsails set on it, and the forestays that hold the foremast are made fast through it. It goes first — and carries what comes behind.