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Sky Trader by dekart

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made by dekart for LD27 (COMPO)
Become the captain of the sky ship, visit all floating islands, fight against sky pirates, and earn the honor to join the Sky Guild!

How to play:

* Control your ship with ARROWS or AWSD
* Aim & shoot with mouse
* Press ENTER to dock on stations
* Buy & sell goods for profits
* Don't forget to refuel - each fuel can lasts only 10 seconds
* Buy new ships for better performance and cargo capacity

Main Goal: destroy the pirate base in the middle of the map.

What do you think about the game? Please let me know - your feedback is very important for me!

P.S. The game was made with HTML5, JavaScript, and pixi.js
Web (Chrome/Firefox), may take some time to load http://sheltered-refuge-9284.herokuapp.com
Source https://github.com/dekart/skytrader
Post-Mortem http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/2013/09/03/sky-trader-post-mortem/
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-27/?action=preview&uid=14826

Ratings

Coolness 100% 1
Overall 3.24 372
Audio 1.60 904
Fun 3.06 439
Graphics 3.92 88
Humor 2.18 592
Innovation 3.05 492
Mood 2.84 465
Theme 1.68 1177

Feedback

tigerj
26. Aug 2013 · 06:47 UTC
I'm not seeing the theme so that was really the only low mark. I'd love to hear some sound. I hope you continue this game after LD27. I'm a big fan of shooters and economics.
donan
26. Aug 2013 · 06:54 UTC
Cool concept :D
Love the gameplay style and the graphics ^^
avh4
26. Aug 2013 · 08:37 UTC
Great work! I'm not a big fan of trading games, but if I were I'd play this through to the end (and it looks like there's plenty of gameplay time available).
Zuige
26. Aug 2013 · 11:20 UTC
Nice game! Lots of enemies though. Maybe you could limit the number of enemies on screen? I didn't really see how this fits the 10 second theme though.
xgeovanni
26. Aug 2013 · 11:28 UTC
Perhaps, given the sheer number of them and the small amount of time in which you can spar with them, the pirates should be a bit squishier.
Lars Faust
26. Aug 2013 · 11:35 UTC
The ships and isles look great and the trading felt very Port-Royale-y, which is great as well.

The theme was somewhat implemented, but the game wasnt really built around it, so that is the only negative.
rephus
26. Aug 2013 · 11:44 UTC
Interesting mix of concepts, I like the sprites and the animations. It will be helpful if you add a life bar to the enemies, at least for the pirate base. Good work.
ratalaika
26. Aug 2013 · 11:49 UTC
Nice concept and nice work! I like the graphics a lot :)
TheJackiMonster
26. Aug 2013 · 12:03 UTC
It's fun.. I like this control of a plane! :D
Zccc
26. Aug 2013 · 12:04 UTC
I liked it, but I couldn't find how to finish the game..
gre
26. Aug 2013 · 13:35 UTC
Very good graphics, gameplay and game concept :) Would have loved a few parallax effect on the clouds but that's still a 5-star graphics :)
skarab
26. Aug 2013 · 14:05 UTC
Yes the graphics are stunning. Miss the theme but the idea is really cool!
Spotline
26. Aug 2013 · 15:04 UTC
Great mix of genres and awesome graphics ! Good job
Dooleus
26. Aug 2013 · 18:11 UTC
Nice art and good mechanics. Pretty weak implementation of theme in my opinion, but it is present (fuel cans last 10 seconds). The pirate behavior was a little exploitable - you can just hover outside of their follow range and shoot them without any reaction from them. Desperately needed audio. Overall, pretty fun to play with a good amount of depth added with the trading system, just needs some more polish.
crashbanito
26. Aug 2013 · 18:49 UTC
I really liked the art on those ships. Very clean and professional. I was able hover out of range of the pirates and take pot shots out of them which is a little exploitable.

This is a game that really could have used some audio to go with it. Coming from a guy who isn't much of an audio guy myself, I'd recommend using WolframTones and SFXR to generate some random beeps and boops for your next project.
VagabondEx
26. Aug 2013 · 19:29 UTC
This is a lovely game, but it doesn't seem to be aligned with the theme too much.
Nonetheless, I like it, and will play with it for a while to kill those pirate bases :)
GagaPete
26. Aug 2013 · 19:33 UTC
This game looks awesome but it trading simulations isn't really my genre. Another point is that the theme is quite hidden.
grayhaze
26. Aug 2013 · 19:34 UTC
Really nice graphics and a good trading mechanic, but not really related to the theme. Impressive result in the short time though!
doonay21
26. Aug 2013 · 19:36 UTC
Good job, nice game :)
InfN555
26. Aug 2013 · 20:02 UTC
Not sure how this applies to the theme.
It's good fun to work out how to win, but after that it just becomes a grinding process to get money for the next ship.
Split82
26. Aug 2013 · 20:09 UTC
I like the idea. There is a small problem with enemies. I can shoot on them from a distance and they don't care = don't move. Makes it really easy to kill them all.
proc
27. Aug 2013 · 00:18 UTC
Hold ten thing and fuel last 10 seconds, passable for the theme but I had to really look. I destroyed the big flying base thing, no end to the game? The enemies are hard unless you creep to them and so they don't activate as people have said. Perhaps have the AI respond if they are fired upon as well as proximity? I liked it!
LemonTree
27. Aug 2013 · 02:24 UTC
Looks good! But I don't see theme here.
LittleThor
27. Aug 2013 · 07:41 UTC
Nice graphics and interesting concept. Need more of the "ten second thing" to realy fit the theme, like an effective ten second time to fly between two towns.
Zerkruemler
28. Aug 2013 · 07:38 UTC
Cool idea and funny graphics with the flying stations.
Dew
28. Aug 2013 · 19:00 UTC
Nice concept for a steampunk game but missed the theme T_T
BadgerPriest
30. Aug 2013 · 08:30 UTC
Oh that was nifty. I love dogfighting and trading, so putting the two into one game certainly appeals to me. If you keep working, it'd be cool to make exploration a bigger art of the game, for example, making it necessary to explore different parts of the map to find different resources.
Makio
30. Aug 2013 · 21:43 UTC
lovely graphism and inertie on the control but I m so bad at trading :(
Dining Philosopher
30. Aug 2013 · 22:11 UTC
Nice game, it was possible to kill the boss easily with the second ship by hovering just out of range and shooting for a while. After that I wasn't very motivated to hoard enough money for the last ship :-P

The mechanic reminded me a bit of Escape Velocity, one of my favorite games as a child.
canvapps
31. Aug 2013 · 11:17 UTC
wow! impressive for just two days
great work!
Jupiter_Hadley
31. Aug 2013 · 23:44 UTC
Cute graphics! I love the game and how one interacts with other cities! Pretty impressive. I featured it in my video compilation series of Ludum Dare 27 games, if you would like to check it out! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksgU2Iicu2g
Arrow-x
01. Sep 2013 · 17:50 UTC
Fine game but it is so far from the theme
sP0CkEr2
01. Sep 2013 · 21:42 UTC
graphics were top notch -- no sound which was a shame -- nice effort
Will Edwards
03. Sep 2013 · 18:32 UTC
Exceptionally fun to play :)

Once I found an industrial city and a cultural city really close, I shuttled backwards and forwards 'til I could upgrade my ship.

You can shoot the enemy without them reacting if you are far enough away.

There tends to be rather a lot of enemy around sometimes.
someone
03. Sep 2013 · 19:37 UTC
That was cool, good work.
I did miss the main objective as it wasn't specified in game or anywhere on the page. The game doesn't seem to have a victory condition anyway... Just killed the boss from a safe distance.
Also enter wasn't a great choice for the trade key. It doesn't seem to have anything to do with the theme either.
panurge
04. Sep 2013 · 20:04 UTC
Excellent game - lovely polished style and the mechanics worked really well. It was like a pared down 'Pirates!' and very enjoyable to play.

Minor quibbles: tenuous link to the theme and a poor choice of key for entering cities (the player has to take their hand off the mouse or keys to hit enter - space would have been preferable).

Altogether, a really strong entry. Nice work!
Latcarf
04. Sep 2013 · 23:53 UTC
Very good graphics and very good game!
Colapsydo
05. Sep 2013 · 09:38 UTC
First time, I got destroyed in less than 10 seconds and realized it wasn't a shooter.
I really like the mood you created with those floating cities, and all the ships flying around. I went till the first upgrade of my ship. I found trading a bit tough since price were changing maybe too much from one visit to another. But I globally liked the experience.
jay griffin
06. Sep 2013 · 12:52 UTC
Very cool piece of work, and an awful lot of game there for a 48 hour entry. Love the visual style, it looks and feels nicely polished all round. Just wish there was a little audio to go with it.
blay09
06. Sep 2013 · 17:15 UTC
Nice grapics. I'm not sure if that brown thing I killed was the pirate base or not. It would have been helpful if there was some kind of minimap or at least an indication on what type of island an island is without having to enter it. Gameplay felt smooth, but got monotonous after I bought the first better ship so I went to kill the boss right away.
manuq
06. Sep 2013 · 18:17 UTC
This game is very polished! I liked the instructions, is good when a game tells you why you died, specially when you are trying it for the first time.
Almax27
08. Sep 2013 · 10:06 UTC
Nice concept, not sure if it's random but 80% of the cities were cultural, which make the trade a bit hard :p
Per
14. Sep 2013 · 20:43 UTC
Really nice graphics and controls!
It's like a 2d elite but with good graphics :)