Space Rails
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by Jonathan Gover, Duncan Stead and Ricky Willis
Build a thriving empire of trade between planets using the power of steam!
- Click on planets to see which goods they produce, and which goods you can deliver to them.
- Click and drag between planets to build rail lines between them. Right-click a rail line to sell it, and reclaim half the cost.
- While viewing a planet, you can construct a steam engine on the surface. You can add different types of carriage while viewing a train.
- Set a route for the train by clicking the planets and selecting what to drop off and what to pick up on each. Make sure the planets are connected by rails!
- Profit!
(Hint - if you can increase the population of a planet, it will level up and produce more!)
(Hint - engines start travelling anti-clockwise around a planet. Pay attention to the direction of the arrows when building rails, because if a train can't pass from one rail to another at a shallow enough angle, it won't even start moving. It also won't start moving until there's a completed route to its next destination.)
UPDATE - the buying/selling economy was so unbalanced as to make it unplayable, so the following changes were made:
- rail/engine/carriage prices set properly instead of being debug values
- goods prices adjusted so you can make a profit
- start with more money
- two planets swapped so the beginning of the game is easier
- can no longer buy carriages if you don't have enough money
UPDATE - ported to Linux! Both the original and fixed versions are available :)
Build a thriving empire of trade between planets using the power of steam!
- Click on planets to see which goods they produce, and which goods you can deliver to them.
- Click and drag between planets to build rail lines between them. Right-click a rail line to sell it, and reclaim half the cost.
- While viewing a planet, you can construct a steam engine on the surface. You can add different types of carriage while viewing a train.
- Set a route for the train by clicking the planets and selecting what to drop off and what to pick up on each. Make sure the planets are connected by rails!
- Profit!
(Hint - if you can increase the population of a planet, it will level up and produce more!)
(Hint - engines start travelling anti-clockwise around a planet. Pay attention to the direction of the arrows when building rails, because if a train can't pass from one rail to another at a shallow enough angle, it won't even start moving. It also won't start moving until there's a completed route to its next destination.)
UPDATE - the buying/selling economy was so unbalanced as to make it unplayable, so the following changes were made:
- rail/engine/carriage prices set properly instead of being debug values
- goods prices adjusted so you can make a profit
- start with more money
- two planets swapped so the beginning of the game is easier
- can no longer buy carriages if you don't have enough money
UPDATE - ported to Linux! Both the original and fixed versions are available :)