{"author_link":"\/author\/callumw\/","author_name":"callumW","author_uid":"30922","comments":[{"author_name":"FacticiusVir","author_uid":"8404","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 1:26am","epoch":1408929660,"text":"Is there a win condition?"},{"author_name":"Nsmurf","author_uid":"14050","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 1:34am","epoch":1408930140,"text":"Hard to figure out what to do, and I'm not sure how to get more money\/win.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Seems like it would be cool once I know what to do though!"},{"author_name":"tigerbyte","author_uid":"39187","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 3:02am","epoch":1408935420,"text":"Good entry. I appreciate what you were going for, as I did something similar. I bought a ship and couldn't figure out what it was for, though. I assumed it was to move goods from planet to planet but couldn't figure out how to do it."},{"author_name":"honestcritic","author_uid":"32252","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 4:48am","epoch":1408941780,"text":"first person view makes this game unplayable."},{"author_name":"mrexcessive","author_uid":"20788","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 9:14am","epoch":1408957740,"text":"EliteDare ?! I had fun trading at one of the first planets.  I can see how this would become a time-sink, I liked the dynamic markets. Good job."},{"author_name":"sP0CkEr2","author_uid":"7135","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 1:51pm","epoch":1408974360,"text":"Some good concepts and elements here but it was difficult to figure out what to do. Nice effort."},{"author_name":"mataguiris","author_uid":"42029","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 3:32pm","epoch":1408980420,"text":"Es dif&iacute;cil saber que hacer."},{"author_name":"Alisher Bekenov","author_uid":"38877","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 4:26pm","epoch":1408983660,"text":"\u0433\u0430\u0432\u043d\u043e"},{"author_name":"SaxonRah","author_uid":"3625","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 6:55pm","epoch":1408992600,"text":"It's planetary marketing! The first few times i started the game, it brought me to empty space, reloading the game didn't fix it, i had to manually find the systems. Over all it's a nice game, unfortunately no way to win, but i guess you never really win in the markets."},{"author_name":"psychomonster","author_uid":"17723","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 7:32pm","epoch":1408994820,"text":"nice 3d zoom in if you click on a planet. Nice simulation mechanics... but it is way to complex to solve it without having a tutorial... maybe you should provide a tutorial next version ;)"},{"author_name":"sbarrio","author_uid":"25025","time":"Aug 31, 2014 @ 11:53am","epoch":1409485680,"text":"Liked the animation and traveling between planets and ships. It's a bit too complex to figure out at first so a tutorial or example might help a lot :)"},{"author_name":"RodRoy1","author_uid":"31418","time":"Sep 6, 2014 @ 10:44am","epoch":1409999940,"text":"The universe is impressive but the controls could use some work. Also i was having trouble moving the ship around and getting them into orbit. Still, nice entry."}],"images":["ld30\/30922-e1c2fece4ee2277ae97cc0cadd7514e7.jpg","ld30\/30922-26cdc4b999174bddf3227187dcc0dd9e.jpg","ld30\/30922-84fce96f999d143291deeeb7ab8009ac.jpg","ld30\/30922-cd7aaa2f3c7dff3d2f6ef77cbae963ee.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/14303315\/UnityWebBuilds\/Ludam%20Dare%2030\/LudamDare30Callum\/LudamDare30Callum.html","text":"Web"},{"url":"https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/14303315\/Unity%20Windows%20Builds\/Ludum%20Dare%2030%20CallumW.7z","text":"Windows"},{"url":"https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/14303315\/Unity%20Mac%20Builds\/Ludam%20Dare%2030%20Callum%20Mac.7z","text":"OS\/X"},{"url":"https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/14303315\/Unity%20Linux%20Builds\/Ludam%20Dare%2030%20Callum%20Linux.7z","text":"Linux"},{"url":"https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/14303315\/Source%20Files\/Ludam%20Dare%2030.7z","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"18133","g_author":"30922","g_event":"LD30","g_eventkey":"24","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"18162","g_title":"A Space Trade Game","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"1023","g_commentcount":"12","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\/30922-shot0.PNG-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/375043\/30922-shot1.PNG-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/375043\/30922-shot2.PNG-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/375043\/30922-shot3.PNG-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"A Space Trade Game \r\n\r\n\r\nWith the theme being Connected Worlds I went for a trading game where you move resources between worlds trying to make a profit doing so. Each planet has consumes and creates resources depending on its stats and buildings. The buy and sell price will change depending on how much is available. \r\n\r\nAs art is not one of strongest skills I decided to make all the textures at runtime using the built in perlin noise. The star systems are created randomly at the start and each planet type is based on its distance from its star. This creates a nice variety but sometimes you can get some quite hard systems. \r\n\r\nI was worried I might of spent too much time on the generation and not create much actually gameplay. But even though I did not spent any real time balancing the numbers I feel there is enough of challenge of trying to balance ship traveling costs versus trade profits to make it interesting.\r\n\r\nHere are the controls although they are in game to:\r\n\r\n * Right Click and move mouse to look around.\r\n * WASD to move camera or use GoTo on selected objects.\r\n * Objects can be selected by left clicking on them.\r\n * Deselect by pressing space.\r\n * When a ship is selected right click on a planet to send it there.\r\n * Don't forget to add the resources to the ship before moving them.\r\n\r\n * F1 will reload the game( new random systems and resets progress).\r\n * F2 will make the game fullscreen;\r\n\r\nUpdate:\r\nI understand some of this game is not that clear so wanted to explain some things further. \r\n\r\nThere is no win condition, the goal is to just make as much money as possible. You can how ever run out of money which means you will need to restart (F1).\r\n\r\nWhen you buy a ship, it will orbit the planet. To select the ship left click on it. If you have trouble finding the ship the planet will have a list of ships in orbit and the you can click \"GoTo\" and it will zoom to the ship. \r\n\r\nWhen you buy resources they are put on the planets local storage. From here you can move it to a ship from load and empty buttons on the ships in orbit list.\r\n\r\nThen with the ship selected you can right click on different planet to send the ship there. \r\n\r\nAnd forgot to add source last night just uploaded that now.","title":"A Space Trade Game"}