{"author_link":"\/author\/shivur\/","author_name":"Shivur","author_uid":"36762","comments":[{"author_name":"Vennril","author_uid":"15816","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 11:47pm","epoch":1409010120,"text":"Just played (and finished!) your game. I don't usually like sim games, but this was fun :)"},{"author_name":"Lord bobyness","author_uid":"20383","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 3:00am","epoch":1409021700,"text":"This was fun. It seemed pretty easy(connect as many planets as possible and wait) but I still felt quite powerful setting up trade routes. I've seen other AAA games like this where getting a ship\/space ship to go between to locations is quite hard. Here, I could just click and drag and the ship went, and I felt like a god!"},{"author_name":"Shivur","author_uid":"36762","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 11:41am","epoch":1409052960,"text":"Haha! Thanks!"},{"author_name":"MrSylar59","author_uid":"38521","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 1:43pm","epoch":1409060280,"text":"Quite fun and easy but I noticed some of my space ship disapear is it a bug or it's me ?\r\rGood job !"},{"author_name":"Literal Games","author_uid":"26056","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 1:59pm","epoch":1409061240,"text":"Fun! I found it a little unclear how trade routes worked at first, but once I figured it out then building a little trade empire was cool!"},{"author_name":"Shivur","author_uid":"36762","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 6:04pm","epoch":1409075940,"text":"Yes it's normal. If you go throught a pirates zone there's a chance your ship will "disappear". You can reduce that chance by buying ships with more weapons."},{"author_name":"Jaenis","author_uid":"36966","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 6:07pm","epoch":1409076120,"text":"Nice little game!"},{"author_name":"MechanicMoon","author_uid":"40539","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 6:08pm","epoch":1409076180,"text":"I have the feeling that I'm not done to understand how to play the game, however the idea is good and the game is well"},{"author_name":"Dissiden7","author_uid":"25686","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 10:06pm","epoch":1409090460,"text":"Nice. It's funny how I basically based myself in the same concept.\r\rCool to see how we went in different directions. :)"},{"author_name":"goffmog","author_uid":"2011","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 10:10pm","epoch":1409090700,"text":"Awesome! Kind of the thing I was going for with my game except 48 hours wasn't really long enough to give the player many gameplay options and\/or flesh out the types of goods available, etc."},{"author_name":"danbo","author_uid":"26427","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 11:28pm","epoch":1409095380,"text":"I wanna play Warpath95 now"},{"author_name":"HoboMechanistic","author_uid":"38275","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 11:32pm","epoch":1409095620,"text":"Ah, dude this game was super fun. One of my favorites thus far.I like the concept and the random planet generation!"},{"author_name":"madk","author_uid":"1540","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 11:59pm","epoch":1409097240,"text":"Fun! The planets and piracy zones have a nasty tendency to overlap in a way that completely screws over my plans."},{"author_name":"Loren","author_uid":"17687","time":"Aug 27, 2014 @ 3:35pm","epoch":1409153400,"text":"very fun :) really enjoyed it, nice job!"},{"author_name":"MicroChasm","author_uid":"28108","time":"Aug 27, 2014 @ 10:41pm","epoch":1409178960,"text":"I like the idea, I like the graphics, and I like the details. A little tutorial or explanation would be nice though-- It was hard to tell what I was supposed to do."},{"author_name":"Shivur","author_uid":"36762","time":"Aug 27, 2014 @ 11:06pm","epoch":1409180460,"text":"Thanks for the comment, but I did a tutorial\/explanation. It's on the main menu."},{"author_name":"JangoBrick","author_uid":"34054","time":"Aug 28, 2014 @ 9:20pm","epoch":1409260500,"text":"Solid concept. Once I figured out how to connect them, it was great fun! I would have liked it better if the universe was bigger (= more planets to connect). Also this could have used some audio.\rBut overall, good game with enjoyable gameplay. Well done!"},{"author_name":"Ryusui","author_uid":"12635","time":"Aug 29, 2014 @ 7:36am","epoch":1409297460,"text":"Really clever idea. I just wish there was more (or more obvious) feedback regarding which routes are profitable and which ones aren't. Seems a bit like trial-and-error.\r\rI also got a weird bug where the readouts for two different planets displayed on top of each other, making both illegible."},{"author_name":"Crefossus","author_uid":"23130","time":"Aug 31, 2014 @ 3:26am","epoch":1409455260,"text":"This was my first idea (without implementation details) before I chickened out and went to something easier, so more power to you for giving it a go! \r\rI like how you added in the dynamic risk (since everything moved) of the pirates and you had me hooked until I won :) Gj!\r\rSelecting\/changing the trade routes seems a little strange. I lost which ship is which visually."},{"author_name":"vividhelix","author_uid":"35713","time":"Aug 31, 2014 @ 3:29am","epoch":1409455440,"text":"This was deeper than it looked at first sight. I liked how the planets and the pirates moved, it added an extra layer of complexity..."},{"author_name":"jpverkamp","author_uid":"19702","time":"Aug 31, 2014 @ 9:05pm","epoch":1409518800,"text":"Could have been a little more clear about what you can buy and sell where, but it was an amusing enough distraction for a while. Took a while to figure out how to use more than one kind of ship too. Wow that helps a lot. :)"},{"author_name":"ChuiGum","author_uid":"22408","time":"Sep 1, 2014 @ 3:24am","epoch":1409541540,"text":"Awesome graphics, cool idea too. Good job!"},{"author_name":"Ted Brown","author_uid":"12485","time":"Sep 1, 2014 @ 9:42pm","epoch":1409607420,"text":"Definitely something empowering about this quiet little game. :)\r\rI encourage anyone doing a trading game (or anything involving transactions) to please have a pop up showing what the result of the trade would be, instead of us figuring it out in our heads. ;)"},{"author_name":"Shivur","author_uid":"36762","time":"Sep 2, 2014 @ 3:32am","epoch":1409628420,"text":"I agree I should have added the amount spent or gained over the ships each time a transaction is done."},{"author_name":"Tosic","author_uid":"35464","time":"Sep 2, 2014 @ 7:10am","epoch":1409641500,"text":"Nice work!\rI like the graphics!"},{"author_name":"Ramiel","author_uid":"25695","time":"Sep 3, 2014 @ 6:37pm","epoch":1409769120,"text":"Good game. The graphics are really nice.\rAnd: Yeay, I bought the universe. :)"},{"author_name":"StMatn","author_uid":"18894","time":"Sep 3, 2014 @ 11:07pm","epoch":1409785320,"text":"Nice idea!\rTo be honest, I didn't understand the mechanics, so I did just try-and-error, until I had a profitable route and just let the game run in background. A more dynamic economy-system would have been great.\rI had two planets really close to each other and realized, that you can have multiple ships. That lead to an exploitation of that extreme short route with all ships. From there it was a matter of seconds until the universe was mine ;)\rMaybe you could let the player decide which trade to make and give the planets a minimum distance to maintain.\rAll in all great work!"},{"author_name":"timtipgames","author_uid":"15341","time":"Sep 9, 2014 @ 9:10am","epoch":1410253500,"text":"I think I have an idea where you tried to go with this game, but I find it very confusing. I think for improvement of the game it would be essential to improve the feedback-loop between player and game. I found it hard to understand which ships I controlled, where they were heading and why they disappeared despite the fact that they had weapons when they approached pirate nests.\rGood job for your second participation!"},{"author_name":"hoyt hoy","author_uid":"27144","time":"Sep 9, 2014 @ 3:09pm","epoch":1410275040,"text":"Good game, little and fun ^^"},{"author_name":"Shivur","author_uid":"36762","time":"Sep 11, 2014 @ 8:27pm","epoch":1410466920,"text":"The weapons don't protect entirely. It just decrease the chances of disappearing. For the rest I agree I should make more feedback between player and game. I tried to put the more possible but it wasn't enough."}],"images":["ld30\/36762-d395bf2a9d77740bfc68e8c2366c85d9.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.newgrounds.com\/dump\/item\/15a3c19d4d9c97f283f8004b0e94512b","text":"Windows"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.newgrounds.com\/dump\/item\/16ae1904e82696e0166cc25bedc103a1","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"16642","g_author":"36762","g_event":"LD30","g_eventkey":"24","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"16671","g_title":"Trade routes","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"397","g_commentcount":"30","g_site2_node_id":"0","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":[],"node":null,"orig_images":["http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/375043\/36762-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Hey everybody,\r\n\r\nThis is my second participation.\r\nThis time I had a very bad start so I decided to make the 72hrs jam instead. I'm proud of my decision because it's more finished and has a more profound gameplay than my first entry.\r\n\r\nThe goal is to create trade routes between planets for your ship to exchange and bring you space Kredits. The price of the trading items depends on the resources used to create it and the resources available on the planet where it's sold. Adding movement to planets and some pirates and we have a good challenge. \r\n\r\nHope you enjoy!","title":"Trade routes"}