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Space Trader
A browser game made in HTML5

Since the game is essentially playable (even though it's not complete), I've decided to release this for anyone to play. It was primarily for me to learn some more Ren'Py, and here are some of the things I found new and interesting that I implemented in the game.

  • Added extensive Python code to a Ren'Py scripts
  • Creating a custom screen
  • A conditional menu item
  • Using a JSON file to store world (er, galaxy) parameters
  • Creating a stand-alone Python program to draw a map using the same JSON file (this is one of my favorite accomplishments!).

For those that actually play it, Give me some suggestions about how I might adjust values to balance the game better.

  • length and value of contract
  • distances between systems (I want shorter paths to be more risky, which is why the triangle inequality definitely does NOT hold as you progress from left to right)
  • safety and/or economy of system

Files

  • Trader-0.8-web.zip 64 MB
    3 days ago
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