{"author_link":"\/author\/benw\/","author_name":"BenW","author_uid":"128","comments":[{"author_name":"LesInk","author_uid":"41655","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 1:36am","epoch":1408930260,"text":"Man, I really like the concept of this game -- fast trading game."},{"author_name":"Denisre3","author_uid":"32066","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 2:11am","epoch":1408932360,"text":"This game is really fun."},{"author_name":"gregkleindev","author_uid":"40099","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 2:13am","epoch":1408932480,"text":"Fun game. I noticed a small bug with the capacity display when I sold a lot of decombobulators.\r\rhttp:\/\/i.imgur.com\/GsOWGx9.png"},{"author_name":"tigerbyte","author_uid":"39187","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 2:42am","epoch":1408934220,"text":"I liked the concept. I couldn't find an objective or anything there. Was there a win\/lose condition?\r\rMinor gripe - number formatting in the UI. Restrict to 2 decimal places. Ideally whole dollars make more sense."},{"author_name":"burgerdare","author_uid":"29805","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 2:47am","epoch":1408934520,"text":"If I may make a recommendation, it might be a good idea to round off the prices of each commodity. It's a bit of an eyesore to see so many places after each decimal point, especially in a game as visually clean as this one.\rThe mechanics aren't my personal cup of tea, but they seem competent enough to please somebody who enjoys trading games."},{"author_name":"plash","author_uid":"14542","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 3:12am","epoch":1408936020,"text":"The only real way to fly: 100\/100 space kittens in the cargo hold.\r\rThis could be a thing. Less obscenely long floating-point values and music that isn't so repetitive. And ship upgrades.\r\rNitpicks:\r\r- The reticle isn't centered on the player ship.\r- This music is really annoying!\r- I can't have all the space kittens."},{"author_name":"Miziziziz","author_uid":"41803","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 5:07am","epoch":1408942920,"text":"nice flocking behaviour on the ships, and I liked the trade feeling; seeing what costs the least at which planet, buying it, travelling to the planet where it costs the most and then selling. This could turn into something cool; add in some missions and dialogue, could have a real cool space merchant game.\rAlso, the music was not bad ;)"},{"author_name":"tanjent","author_uid":"36394","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 6:48am","epoch":1408948980,"text":"Good start. A visual indicator of a loss\/win on a trade by the sell button would be very cool. Also I think a scrolling news feed alerting about 'deals' on certain locations would be a nice addition :)"},{"author_name":"mrexcessive","author_uid":"20788","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 1:58pm","epoch":1408974780,"text":"Hi. Fun concept. I like the constantly trading other ships. Interesting variant of Elite, knowing all the prices before incurring cost of travel is huge advantage. Some sort of way to buy\/sell quantities larger than 1 unit at a time would be great. I made loads trading toilet paper but all that clicking was slightly frustrating."},{"author_name":"holgk","author_uid":"32032","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 5:15pm","epoch":1408986600,"text":"Nice game. I made a trade game, too. I used unity so graphic is a little bit more shiny. Suggestion: I would round price to 2 digit. Those long nummers were a little bit confusing."},{"author_name":"joonamo","author_uid":"10775","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 6:30pm","epoch":1408991100,"text":"Who wouldn't want to be a space kitten trader?!"},{"author_name":"pjimmy","author_uid":"40339","time":"Sep 1, 2014 @ 11:31am","epoch":1409570760,"text":"nice, simple yet engaging"},{"author_name":"LesInk","author_uid":"41655","time":"Sep 1, 2014 @ 3:19pm","epoch":1409584440,"text":"Man, I really like the concept of this game -- fast trading game."},{"author_name":"WetDesertRock","author_uid":"30221","time":"Sep 15, 2014 @ 10:25pm","epoch":1410819600,"text":"This game was kinda lacking. First thing I did was find two world with a great trade route and got tons of money. Didn't know where to go from there. I o like it though, just needed a goal."}],"images":["ld30\/128-94c24f2b5afc29f81981108f5567d9c5.jpg","ld30\/128-3b6e58b88a08fac84c3f4761fa8b0b6c.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/downloads.garagecoder.com\/LD30\/index.html","text":"Web"},{"url":"http:\/\/downloads.garagecoder.com\/LD30\/src.zip","text":"Source"},{"url":"http:\/\/garagecoder.com","text":"My Website"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"17167","g_author":"128","g_event":"LD30","g_eventkey":"24","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"17196","g_title":"Trade Empire","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"99999","g_commentcount":"14","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\/128-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/375043\/128-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Click on planets to see what goods they have.\r\nClick on the red ship to select it.\r\nWith the red ship selected click on a planet to travel to it.\r\nWhen you arrive at the planet there should be buy and sell options on the right.\r\nClick in empty space to close the side panel.\r\n\r\nKnown issues:\r\nPlanet info screen does not auto refresh.\r\nWhen selecting your ship while it is already orbiting a planet the buy menu doesn't show. Just travel back to the planet to get around this.\r\n\r\nHave fun trading, and no you can't win.","title":"Trade Empire"}