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Space Trade Inc.
By maxxim
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| Category | Rank | Score | Count |
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| Coolness | 3 | 61 | | |
| Theme | 72 | 3.84 | | |
| Mood | 171 | 3.52 | | |
| Overall | 186 | 3.50 | | |
| Audio | 204 | 3.43 | | |
| Innovation | 261 | 3.24 | | |
| Fun | 268 | 3.24 | | |
| Graphics | 395 | 3.36 | | |
| Humor | 508 | 2.09 | | |
Comments
laremere
2014-08-25 23:43
There's a lot of cool technology in this entry, with the planets being terraformed, and the ship building. However the gameplay isn't too interesting. It seems the best strategy would be to build lots of cheap ships, but that's just repetitive. Also, since planets make more money the more you trade with them, it seems the best idea is to just set up a lot of ships going between the same two planets. If there were resources that planets either produced in certain quantities, or needed in other quantities, the game would be much more interesting. Overall impressive technology for the timeframe though, good job!
Nice music! It was also nice of you to include a mute button, even though I did not need it.
The tech is cool, but a "winning" goal and maybe some reasons to expand and upgrade could probably improve it further. :)
cstack
2014-08-26 06:55
Great theme. Cool idea. But it takes too long to earn money and it gets boring. The scrolling is also a little janky.
This game has a lot of potantial. The amont of content is now too small, to call it an awsome game, but I real like it, you shud make tomthing big out of it. The music is great, very meditative.
hb3p8
2014-08-26 08:01
Nice!
Cool!!
voxel
2014-08-26 08:30
nice and atmospheric, can really appreciate where you were going with this. Think you'll be able to work on it a little more in the future?
brookman
2014-08-26 08:34
Awesome! Best entry I have played so far.
It's an advanced concept for a jam. I like the blocky style and I was motivated to play quite some time.
The balancing could be improved, but for the time frame it's impressive.
I had some bugs where ships get stuck inside the planet. In one instance the trade route was corrupted so that the planet started trading with itself and the money shot up. See here: http://i.imgur.com/bWsSB5y.png
I like the mood. Gameplay is pretty clear to understand, but at the beginning you have to wait too long to build second ship.
cooliron
2014-08-26 08:41
Great one! I even would call it awesome! I think you should continue work on it and make something even more great :)
Only one thing that bothers me is that all planets are equal and there is no point to fly long distances. Or maybe I just can't see it. Anyway, great job!
nataku92
2014-08-26 08:45
Cool stuff. Really like the overall idea, but it suffers from a slow start and lack of challenge.
Great idea and well executed, though a little slow to begin with
I very much enjoyed playing this in the background while I was working, but it doesn't really have enough going on to hold my full attention for very long. I hope you'll expand on it, it's a cool demo ;)
Impressive work! Love the ship-builder :)
cheshyr
2014-08-28 06:20
This has so much potential. How the heck did you do this in 72 hours? Just... damn. Wow.
Amazing submission. Audio is great. CUSTOM SHIP BUILDING?! Great work.
aevek
2014-08-28 06:46
I played this one for well over an hour. Most of my evening gone to one game! Seriously cool, once I stopped myself from just trading between two planets. I would love to see this taken further, possibly with a resource chain system similar to that of openTTD? A bit more art and some more depth to the gameplay and you've got one hell of a game. Awesome, awesome job.
Space Trade Inc. is a nice little passive game. There is not a whole lot of content and it's not the most innovative idea out there. But, the game has a really nice soothing soundtrack which complements the passive game play and the 3D voxel art graphics are a nice touch.