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Tiny Trader

By divillysausages

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Audio1783.11
Mood2423.04
Overall2653.25
Graphics2653.25
Innovation2663.29
Fun3253.00
Humor4602.17
Theme5212.86
Coolness68846

Comments

divillysausages 2012-04-23 00:10

Can't seem to find a way to edit this post, but the source can be found here: http://divillysausages.com/files/tinyTrader/TinyTrader_src.zip

sidetrackgames 2012-04-23 06:08

I enjoyed the flow and controls of this game!

devwil 2012-04-24 21:27

i think what's already here is really well-made and it's a neat, minimalistic space trading game... but i found it really easy to stop playing. didn't see much reason to continue.

matthias_zarzecki 2012-04-24 21:42

Zooming around is fun, and the music is quite fitting.

That being said, I had no idea what actually happened. Feedback was somewhat difficult to understand.

azurenimbus 2012-04-24 21:44

VERY nice controls, quite smooth and relaxing. Liked the music and general mood too.

piterlouis 2012-04-24 21:48

The game controls are genial, and gameplay is funny. Good work

nocturne 2012-04-24 21:57

Neat little game, and well made... Fairly tight controls and the gameplay was fun for a while, but it lacked depth.

divillysausages 2012-04-24 22:23

Thanks for all the feedback! I agree the main problems are feedback and depth - I was trying to keep it minimalist and simple, to just play with flow, but it definitely could do with more time spent on polish :)

heugamer 2012-04-26 03:09

I love the concept and the controls were very well.

free_napalm 2012-04-26 19:37

Smooth gameplay, nice atmosphere with fitting music. I can not really think of one thing I would add to it without changing the concept.
The way it is, it's a good game with a great concept. Well done!
P.S.: Redheads as cargo? This is quite dystopian lol

castor 2012-04-26 19:38

I like it. I like it a lot. The other ships are so damn annoying - I want to shoot them all down.

desmarkie 2012-04-26 20:14

nice little game. Nice graphics and the motion feels solid too. Upgrades would be aces! :)

dx0ne 2012-04-27 11:28

Definitely add some way to defend.

orangeez 2012-04-28 18:40

all ingenious is simple, that's definitely about that game. the concept is simple and solid, similar to Space Rangers, i love that. music is great, and so is everything.
believe me or not, i had a dream where i enter some page, read the description of this game and then play it :D

nihilocrat 2012-04-30 17:40

Pretty neat! The 'clean pickup/dropoff' bonus makes it pretty challenging at times. Some kinda gameover when you reach 0 credits would be nice, but I got the point pretty quickly anyways.

netmute 2012-05-01 20:08

Absolutely enjoyed this! You may have abused my soft spot for space traders, I long for them :)
Amazingly polished gameplay. One of the few gems I will play long after LD23 :)

(This would be great on an iPad, *hint* *hint*, pleaaase!)

raptor85 2012-05-11 22:27

interesting but agreed to most others, good music, good controls, good base for a game...but didn't really seem to be much to do or a point to doing it.

justinmullin 2012-05-12 15:23

Neat! Very very fresh and original take on the space trader...love it! I agree with the common opinion here that there's not much drive to continue playing, but the core gameplay is well thought out and creative. Nicely done!