fun idea!

Very nice game ! The minimalist graphics are beautiful ! The retro-space audio is perfect. The gameplay is a bit diffcult to catch at the beginning, but once you have it, it's really good !

Hey, this is a very cool minimalistic game, I really enjoyed it. Sadly, the game got stuck after I purchased one of the upgrades at the station, but the cargo and delivery management was well done and I really liked the symbol-idea for signaling the destination of the planet

Took me a while to get my head around this, but was definitely interesting. I liked the minimum art style and the concept is great!

I spent so much more time playing the game than I was expecting. Despite minimalistic graphics, it is very retaining and fun to play. Great piece of art!

Very unique gameplay !

@philocode stuck as in a crash? Can you remember which upgrade it was?

Wow, such a cute game. Very nice mechanics and well polished, although it took me a while to figure out the controls or the tutorial hints. Great job!

@jhax yeah, the browser version stopped working and I couldn't interact with anything anymore. I don't remember the name, but it cost 500 I think, maybe that narrows it down for you

@philocode 500 would be purchasing a New Tanker, thanks for the info - I'll see if I can figure anything out! Were things still moving around, like the textures on the planets and the stations bobbing up and down, with interactions not working or did the whole thing grind to a halt?

Best I could do was 200 days! I appreciated that the music didn't feel repetitive even after playing for a long time.

Is there a way to clear out expired cargo from a planet without thanklessly shipping it across the galaxy? Because I could enjoy playing this for hours, but things fell apart pretty quickly once too many rarely visited planets piled up!

@jhax there were still sounds playing, I don’t remember if sprites were still animated. But nothing was interactive anymore

@philocode ok, thanks again for the info (and thanks for playing, sorry your playthrough got cut short!)

@tetrapt thanklessly shipping it across the galaxy was the idea designwise to sort of drive the difficulty a bit, but sounds like a Chill mode might be a worthwhile addition! :smile:

Very cool! I don't think I've played anything quite like this!

I also crashed when buying the Small Tanker about 5 minutes in. I remember I had a full inventory and I had sent out 1 probe before that.

I really appreciate the tutorial. But I don't know if I'm much of a "micro" player so it was a bit tricky for me, haha. My game froze, I think it was after buying something. Music and graphics is nice :)

@notexplosive @cammin @philocode Feel free to ignore obviously - what browsers are you folk on?

I've found some potential null referencey stuff in the shop code, which I could see crashing things, so I'm pushing some slightly more careful code for that. Although I've still not been able to reproduce it myself so not 100% sure it'll actually fix the problem you've bumped into (pretty confident it hasn't made anything worse at least)! :sweat_smile:

Thanks for playing and glad to hear you were having a good time with it until it froze (all part of the game? very cold in deep space?)!

@jhax I'm using Brave browser

I want to play the game, but it has weird resolution in my browser window.
It looks like it expects a full 16:9 ratio, but browser and the task/control bars will eat some space.
Could you add an itch "full screen" button to the game (edit the game on itch) or adjust the canvas size so it fits the page?
Attaching the screenshot to demonstrate the problem.
I have 1920x1080 resolution, if that helps.

@quasilyte Fullscreen button added! It'll snap to the top left of the screen, which I realise isn't ideal, but better than not being able to play at all!

@jhax I can confirm that it's playable now! I'll check it out later as I have to go for now.
Thank you for a quick fix

@jhax I was using Google Chrome

@cammin & @notexplosive thanks for letting me know! I think if @cammin is getting it on Chrome that probably rules out something browser specific as that's what I've been playing it on, still none the wiser on a specific cause! :thinking:

Unfortunately the game got stuck for me on the initial screen. I tried Win 10 Pro with Egde ver. 135.0.3179.66 (64-bit) and Chrome ver 135.0.7049.42 (64-bit), then updated Chrome to the same result. Graphics card is RTX 2070. The audio plays, I saw some messages on the console when clicking start game, but nothing else. I retried it on Win 10 Home with the same Chrome and Intel HD graphics, and it magically works, though the gameplay was a bit slow and it hanged after a while (this machine is a little bit older though). Huh.

Anyway, the graphics look good and consistent and the audio is really great. I liked the mechanics and the visuals, and didn't really need the tutorial at all, so the gameplay was quite intuitive. I also appreciate thet you've provided tutorial. :thumbsup: It's a good entry overall, thanks!

The concept and mechanics you implemented make for a very nice minimalist game! Took a bit to get used to the interface, so the tutorial helped.

Fun and deep game, took a while to understand even with tutorial and some bugs were in the way, but overall pretty solid with graphics and sounds matching the mood.

Huh?? that's surprisingly addictive! Much appreciation for the tutorial. Music also adds a lot to the atmosphere, good job!

This is really cool and unique. I'm thankful you put the tutorial in there. Great job!

Super cool game. I really like the trading mechanics and minimalist pixelart.

This was so good! very chill vibe.

love logistic games like this so cool to see this executed it such a fun way only issue was I wanted more haha

Fun game! Really enoyed playing! I got to 250 days. Some feedback for improvement:
* I found it a bit annoying to have to load things manually. A single click load would have been useful if there is only one ship.
* Some things I didn't figure out: what the decreasing green bars are, what the fuel station is for
* It would be nice to keep playing in a more relaxed way, I kepet running out of money when I wanted to play more
* Maybe there should be a way to discard cargo? I got stuck at some point with everything full and could exachange goods at the office

On the positive side: audio was amazing. The art was simple but very appealing. The games feels crisp and was very enjoayble. I think it has potential for a bigger game with more features!

This one has a really addicting gameplay loop; I love it. The minimalist graphics worked well for me, although I got stuck during the tutorial my first time around because some of the cargo "type" icons look _really_ similar to one another; I'd love to see some more visually distinct iconography for the cargo. In the event the player only has one freighter docked at a location, I'd also love to be able to transfer cargo with one click instead of two.

I can see it growing into something fun! As a game jam work it's very polished and I love how the icons indicates out-of-viewport planets.

This is a real solid base to build up upon! Music is already golden and the game loop satisfying to play and play and play. Great game!

I didn't completely understand how to play even with tutorial but music and graphics were nice

Like it. It should be a lot of works in a game jam to make a game like that. Audio and Visuals are nice. Interaction could be improved a bit.

I like it but too hard imao)

it started off as being 'ahh this is slow and not engaing' but boooooooooooi was i wrong hahahah ended up playing for quite a bit. love the sound design as well!

Nice game! I like the simple graphics style, it took me a bit to understand how to play it but once I did it was easy and fun :)

I loved the graphics and sound design but did not have a lot of fun playing. I think this comes down to preference...

Nice one, I'm really digging the retro vibes of this. I do kind of wish the planets were circular though hehe. The tutorial didn't seem to help too much, but once you figure things out it plays very smoothly!

Fun game but very overwhelming, the fun sort of stopped as things got too much to handle.

Unique game with lots of style! Love the graphics and sound design:D

Love this game! :heart:
Graphics, atmosphere and ambient soundtrack are awesome!
Gameplay was also fun, nice job!

I really like randomly generated planet icons.

Also in my first run i got incredibly unlucky and only had 1 freighter. Did you really not consider this or did i miss something obvious?

omg it gets so hard haha i love it, i would love to play a game like this with some auto routing mechanic, maybe a bit like metro or something. awesome game! ^^

At first I was a little daunted by the controls but turns out it was quite intuitive. I did not figure out what the question mark cargo was or where it was suppose to go but I guess it was for planets I had not discovered with probes yet? Cool entry nonetheless and real nice to have such a simple tutorial for a game jam!

I liked the music. It makes a great mood and does not feel repetitive. Graphics are simple but effective. Overall it is an interesting and quite polished game. Great entry! :D

I like this! I wish the planets fit on the screen a little better to reduce scrolling, and it was a little slow-paced with only one freighter. Audio is great and very evocative of "the loneliness of deep space." The graphics make really great use of a limited color palette and I appreciate the attention to detail in terms of upgrades. Also the concept of decimal space weeks is funny to me.