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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Style | #872 | 3.935 | 3.935 |
| Overall | #1060 | 3.645 | 3.645 |
| Enjoyment | #1089 | 3.500 | 3.500 |
| Creativity | #1748 | 3.500 | 3.500 |
Ranked from 62 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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Scale up your trading empire by building new trade routes, buying ships and purchasing upgrades
Development Time
96 hours
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https://danqzq.itch.io/leaderboard-creator
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Sonniss.com - GDC Audio Bundles
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Thank you to everyone for playing and your amazing feedback it means a lot❤️❤️❤️
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Reminds me a lot of a simplified version of Slipways, which is a fantastic game so this is also pretty fun! Hazardous areas are a nice addition to the formula
I had never heard of slipways before the jam, but other people have said the same - so I am studying it!
Thanks for playing
Great game, tho it's a bit hard for me to understand at start. but overall great!
Interesting game and definitely has potential. I like this resource management type of game. This one is a bit tedious but considering a jam entry, this is more than good enough. Well done!
Thanks for playing and your feedback - yes currently working on removing the tedium for the post jam update!
Very interesting concept, though not my kind of playstyle, I have played it longer than I expected.
Its definitely the kind of game that you need to take time to understand what's happening before you know what you're doing, something which I actually admire when developers do so and not mention every detail the game would have.
Something I'd want in the game though if you could: would want the routes to passively show how many ships there are on that route, I find it slightly irritating that I have to look at every route to make sure it has max number of ships in it.
Whether or not that would be strategically smart, I wouldn't know but very impressive considering its solo developed, well done!
Yes route management and ship assignment is very irritating - I am currently adjusting the design to stream line things and remove some of the frustration and tedium!
Thank you for your kind words and playing my game!
Interesting game. yes, it could do with some polishing, but I see potential. After all, we only had 96 hours.
Yes exactly - thanks for playing!
As has been pointed out, the lines are too short, doesn't feel like I can do anything. It's very tedious to click/hover on each and every planet to see production/demand -Create icons for demands/production and have them visible at all times. That would make the game way less tedious to play, and much more smooth!
I relly love the concept here, I will definetly play this if it gets polished more :)
Yea could not agree more - there are loads of trades with the smaller size, but they are hard to find and its tedious to find them as you say!
I am already working on an update to address these issues
Thanks for playing and I appreciate the feedback ❤️
So difficult to draw the trails. The route cannot follow when I move my mouse a little faster. I would suggest clicking the two planets and then automatically a route between them is generated.
There is currently a max length that is quite small - this has been removed for the Update...
Drawing the routes is a core part of the game to come up with interesting routes and to navigate around the routes that you made.
Thanks for your feedback and thanks for playing❤️
great game! i think it would be good to have a 2x somewhere(or i could have miss it). kinda hard to know where to begin; could give a arrow to on a certain planet!
Thanks for playing, Yea working on fixing the how to start and finding good trades for the next update
Great game! Kept me occupied for a solid half hour, which for a jam game is quite rare! Its the music isnt it? LOL
Over all fund game, reminded me a little of starsector, just on a minimal scale. Great job on the game, I hope to see it expand in the future!
Issue wise, I didn't run into any issues, besides the trade route length became quite useless after 2 or so upgrades. Overall all, the SFX were fitting, i like the amount of zoom control I had over the map. Art was in line with the style of the game. Good job!
Great game it is a lot of fun and its a great concept that is very well executed. And it has a beautiful design. Great work!
Thanks, not sure you saved your rating? Added yours to my list to play
Looks great and is quite fun, my score was 1157!
Also thats a pretty cool leaderboard solution might use that in the future
It's great 100% recommended I had it added in like 15 mins!
Thanks for playing!
Fun concept! Very addictive. The music and SFX also fit the game play quite well. I did have some feedback though:
The drawing mechanic feels very clunky from a UX perspective. Initially I was very confused why the trail kept fizzling away, maybe a quick pop up message saying that it was too far for my current capacity or some such would’ve been very helpful.
The drawing system is also a bit buggy. When I drew a route initially, it just never displayed the outline to show that it created successfully. So I kept trying to draw one but it never worked (because there already was one there, just hidden to me unless I placed my cursor exactly on it.).
The initial world spawn felt like it didn’t have a compatible set of planets within my reach at all. I don’t know if you had checks in place to make sure this didn’t happen, or if I just didn’t look hard enough.
I think overall most of my gripes are just a lack of polish. Otherwise, neat game!
Thanks for playing and the feedback!
The max route length leads to a poor experience and will be removed.
Hmm I will try to reproduce you issue with the route not spawning... Maybe it was invalid and red so difficult for you to see? Either way I will investigate!
The initial spawn has a trade station that accept scrap and ore. Scrap being a supply good on almost all nearby planets and ored being an unlock but is present on all of the rocky planets.
But the discovery of these is a poor experience and one that I aim to improve.
Thanks 👍
I played 30 minutes and got $2.5m, so it kept my attention a long time. I liked that it was slow paced, no rush to it, nothing bad happening to worry about. Nice relaxing music (I turned it up!). I would have liked to be able to right-click on a trade route and delete it, instead of needing two left-clicks. I could see people playing an expanded version of this game.
Thanks for playing! Glad you enjoyed. Right clicking on routes to remove sounds like a good UX improvement I would worry about panning the camera and break a route though - I will have a play around.
Thanks for you kind words!
Ooh, can you pan by right-clicking? I was using the keyboard to pan, thinking "I'd really like to be able to pan with the mouse" 😂
I think it's a unique idea with various elements to manage, like planet compatibility, asteroid hazards, fuel, and ship quantities, which adds depth. I agree with other comments that the progress feels slow, but overall, it’s a solid game with an interesting space theme! My game also uisng a space theme please give it a try :D
This was a lot of fun. Kudos for adding a bulk buy button. The one thing I would change is having the routes not disappear when you've drawn to far, since It always takes several tries to connect planets that are a valid distance. Excellent work!
Yea, now you have mentioned this I feel that the game is less fun with the route length. Will have to try without it or at least a large one
I think the problem is the the routes snap and it adds extra length invaliding them... Thanks for your feedback!
Loved it! Very strong "one more turn" feel to it, even though it's real time.
Thanks for playing!
Once you get the hang of it, this game is super addictive. I could see there were lots of different approaches to reaching the money goal, which I appreciated, and by the end, it's super satisfying to see the gold bar fill up. Got lots of suggestions, but that's only because I want to see more of it.
Amazing job, especially for a solo programmer!
Thanks for the kind words and for playing ❤️❤️
All suggestions are welcome too 👍
You went super crazy on this one, we can feel that ahah but once you understand everything correctly the game is quite cool !
Yea think I went a little to big and should have polished more - Thanks for playing!