Delta Spaceline by damrem

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made by damrem for LD30 (JAM)
A space trading game.
Objective: gather 10,000 credits within the minimum amount of travels.
Travel aboard your ship by clicking on planets. Trade merchandises. Check price trends. Buy cheap, sell hard! Carry passengers to optimize your moves.
Made in 72h.
Some graphics by Arachne on TIGsource
Music by Kevin MacLeod - Incompetech.com

Ratings

Coolness 71% 3
Overall(Jam) 3.38 273
Audio(Jam) 2.11 601
Fun(Jam) 3.22 274
Graphics(Jam) 2.89 578
Humor(Jam) 1.86 559
Innovation(Jam) 3.22 270
Mood(Jam) 3.03 416
Theme(Jam) 3.73 116

Feedback

sneeuwpopsneeuw
26. Aug 2014 · 08:56 UTC
i liked that you can take pasengers on to your ship.
akymos
26. Aug 2014 · 12:13 UTC
Nice game
Hippolyta
26. Aug 2014 · 12:22 UTC
nice concept!
WebFreak001
26. Aug 2014 · 12:34 UTC
good game. i like. Im so evil buying all the food and selling it somewhere else xD
DarkUser
26. Aug 2014 · 13:16 UTC
Good game. Description says music but there was none.
🎤 damrem
26. Aug 2014 · 13:17 UTC
Happy guys that you enjoy! What are your scores? How many times did you travel to gather 10,000 credits? Best score for me so far: 31... I know people who made 22!
Rob Glen
26. Aug 2014 · 13:47 UTC
Cool game, took me a while to realise that getting passengers helped make the game go so much quicker, in fact it seemed almost unbeatable without making use of them. Seems like space trading is a perfect fit for the theme - I can't believe it didn't even cross my mind when coming up with ideas. I would love to see this as a full blown sandbox game, like a 2D sins of a solar empire without the combat.
mess110
26. Aug 2014 · 15:27 UTC
gj
🎤 damrem
27. Aug 2014 · 08:05 UTC
@WebFreak001 You so nasty making starve millions of people!

@Rob Glen I have some ideas to improve the game: more merchandises (fuel could be one), bounty hunting (investigating to figure on which planet space bandits are hiding, then go there and use weapons), upgrading the ship (more cargo, more efficient engine...)
🎤 damrem
27. Aug 2014 · 10:18 UTC
@DarkUser You made me doubt, I could have forget to reactivate it, but there is definitely music! It's an ambient one called 'Space Machine A' by Kevin MacLeod (http://freepd.com/70s%20Sci%20Fi/Space%20Machine%20A). I guess you just have to turn your speaker on :-p
Kerdelos
27. Aug 2014 · 11:14 UTC
Good job!
Banderi
27. Aug 2014 · 15:25 UTC
I've always loved business simulation games, and combining this with the mentality of puzzle-arcade score hunting (lowest possible set of moves) is absolutely an original idea! Very well done! :)
Jacic
27. Aug 2014 · 15:26 UTC
It took me a few minutes to understand what I could do, but I enjoyed the experience. :)
rustybroomhandle
27. Aug 2014 · 15:38 UTC
Really fun - though it ashamedly took me far too long to realise that I could check the stock at other planets by hovering over them before visiting >.< Great game though!
Artamus
27. Aug 2014 · 15:50 UTC
Nice game, congrats!
wdebowicz
27. Aug 2014 · 16:01 UTC
Fit the theme very well.
Hemuuuli
27. Aug 2014 · 16:12 UTC
I like how you can take your time, plan your moves carefully and really optimize your routes. Some random elements would be nice to break the pattern though.
🎤 damrem
27. Aug 2014 · 16:53 UTC
Thanks to all for your feedback!
@Jacic @rustybroomhandle I'm taking note of that. A light tutorial would definitely improve the experience.
@Hemuuli Trade exchange, stocks and passengers fluctuate randomly during each travel. Do you think about something in particular?
01010111
27. Aug 2014 · 20:37 UTC
Really solid game! My score was 38 :) Loved the simple icons and the passenger mechanic.
stvr
27. Aug 2014 · 23:59 UTC
Reminds me of a certain popular graphing calculator-based trading game.
01101101
29. Aug 2014 · 14:51 UTC
One of the best we've played so far. Coul'd have been better if deeper, but it's hard to achieve in 72h ;)
banana4life
02. Sep 2014 · 15:12 UTC
like it :)
H1S2
05. Sep 2014 · 09:42 UTC
very rewarding when you make a goog deal :)
i would have liked to so the exact course of the items in the other worlds. otherwise pretty cool game!