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Startrader

By nessic

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness350
Innovation3173.17
Overall4363.08
Fun4592.91
Audio4692.57
Mood5062.74
Humor6591.89
Graphics7602.38
Theme9092.00

Comments

arcantic 2013-12-16 05:21

Pretty cool! I was a little confused at first but then I understood. Nice job

tklovert 2013-12-16 05:53

This game is very unforgiving lol.

I had fun either way, but I don't really see how this fits the theme.

deathray 2013-12-16 06:07

The space future is harsh! I only lived to 58. It's a pretty interesting concept. I'd like to see how old people can make it to. The one thing you might want to improve is the icons for each planet - when the planets are close together it can be confusing to figure out which icons are for which planet.

darkcoder 2013-12-16 15:59

The control scheme annoyed me the most. You should either add keyboard controls to move around, or allow click and drag. The concept was very nice though. Also, doesn't the 'Stave off Death' button just kill you?

x-or 2013-12-16 16:22

Sending ships around the universe, yay :P

Took me a while to figure out the controls, eventually could play it "seriously", but I never managed to gain the 1000$ required for the big red button.

windwalkerranger 2013-12-17 16:22

Nice idea! I could live to 57 years and left 570 dollars to my heirs :)

jomomomo 2013-12-19 03:26

Can't play windows games, which is sad, because I love a good space trading game.

nessic 2013-12-19 03:52

This actually might work under linux as it was made with pygame, but I haven't been able to test it!

acp_ld 2013-12-19 21:28

excellent game, great idea, professional execution

only thing I see that is missing is the ability to zoom and either a minimap so you can see all of "known space" or make your level wrap so you can't go outside of the borders

dqmhose 2013-12-22 19:52

Didn't quite get it, the instructions were pretty short. But after playing for a while I *think* I got it now.. it's a fun concept! Keep it up :)

jarnik 2013-12-22 22:33

Hey, really nice concept! Took me a few rounds to get familiar with the controls, but this is a solid base for interesting gameplay. Liked the music!

oskardevelopment 2014-01-03 10:23

Loved the gameplay! Would be nice if to allow full screen and some easier way to move around (minimap?) could had helped. Good luck! :)