puttputt 2013-04-29 18:27
Felt like I was playing a text based Freelancer :D
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD26 → Less is More
By facticiusvir
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coolness | 3 | 52 | ||
| Mood | 696 | 2.74 | ||
| Audio | 785 | 2.30 | ||
| Humor | 791 | 1.93 | ||
| Fun | 807 | 2.71 | ||
| Innovation | 912 | 2.63 | ||
| Overall | 914 | 2.83 | ||
| Theme | 1080 | 2.92 | ||
| Graphics | 1224 | 2.09 |
Felt like I was playing a text based Freelancer :D
I'm having problems clicking on the Buy/Sell screen, and some of the buttons don't seem to work properly :-( Shame because I love space traders!! Bookmarking this in case you find a way to fix it!
Which buttons aren't working?
Resolution is too high for my laptop. Can only see the bottom 2/3 of the screen and can't move the window :( Will try from my desktop machine and rate later.
I don't have windows.
@FacticiusVir I ran it again and it's working!
Nice game :)
Interesting game concept. I felt a bit overwhelmed by all the text and choices of what to buy, maybe it would have been better to focus on only a few things. I eventually sort of figured out how to play but the screen flickering and music were kind of distracting.
First of all I loved this game so that is the only reason I'm being so critical! All it really needs is more complex economy with larger (procedurally generated) universe, fuel to limit how far you can travel and maybe some missions.
It would be nice if the export / import goods were marked clearly in the trading screen.
Often I would press the 'Back' button instead of the 'Leave Orbit' and then wonder why I could not travel to another planet.
Needs 'Buy Max' and 'Sell All' -buttons.
Nice game! There needs to be some sort of variation among the prices (but I know there's only so much time to work with). I really like the planet names, are they randomly generated?
I have windows 7 and it crashes without even starting. :(
Be sure to check if you have .NET 4.5 & XNA 4 (Refresh) installed - there's links in the description at the top of this page.
+Screenshot reminded me of MOO2
+Simple and effective
-The interface is a bit clunky.
-FPS oddly unstable
-No fullscreen support
-Weird resolution
@KilledByAPixel - yeah, I get that; I just came up with a list of trade goods and kind of stuck with it, didn't spend enough time working on that area of game balance.
@CMayhem - Thanks! The economy is simplified to guarantee that the random universe would never leave you stuck in a position you couldn't make money from, but with more structure to the universe generation I could probably plan the economy better. The next items on my ToDo list, after sound effects, where limiting travel distances & and a Buy Max button!
@cahman - Yup, the economy is very flat, so there's a lot of scope for improvement there. The planet name generator was thrown together in the five minutes before the competition ended, and combines 2-4 random syllables from a set containing all combinations of a consonant and a vowel - code is here http://bit.ly/11RnAzx
Can't actually run it for some reason? Either the program doesn't open or if it does it immediately crashes. Using Windows 7 64 bit if that helps any.
@HuvaaKoodia - Fullscreen was interfering with streaming to Twitch, so that was a casualty of my vanity, I'm afraid!
As a few people have mentioned a crash on start-up, I've uploaded a new version with a crash-report dialog; if you don't see that appear and it still crashes, it's almost certainly that you've not got the right version of .NET
Sadly it's not working for Win32-versions. :(
Pretty ambition for an LD. Made me want to play Black Market.
Fails to emulated under Linux using Wine.
The UI could have done with some work. I know it was supposed to be minimal, but it was hard to discern between what you interacted with, and what you couldn't.
Nice idea, captured the essence of space trading games. Clever victory condition. :)
Yes, a Buy All would have been nice. It took me a bit to figure out the interface, didn't realize the "Shop" button meant "buy a ship". Took a bit to figure out that I could click on the cargo types, to configure the ship. For a while I had several ships flying around with all cargo types... until I realized.