Space Road Truckers

Space Road Truckers

This game is from the old Ludum Dare platform. You can try viewing the original page on Web Archive
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coolness: 0.22
graphics: 3.13
overall: 3.25
README/Source available on Github page

https://github.com/randonia/ld30

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http://randonia.com/ld30/SpaceRoadTruckers.html

@zambini845

Repository for Ludum Dare 30 - August 22-24, 2014

Project Source Code Information:

+ Unity 4.5

+ NGUI 3.6.8 (NOT included in source code, you must purchase it to build)

Controls:

+ W - Move ship up

+ S - Move ship down

+ A - Move ship left

+ D - Move ship right

+ T - Toggle TVC (Thrust Vector Control)

+ G - Toggle Docking procedures

+ F - Launch Drone (30 second lifespan)

Objective:

The objective of this game is to make the most money. You're a space trucker,

that's what you do. You earn money by making deliveries of various goods to

different stations throughout the galaxy, but watch out, space can be a

dangerous place full of debris and worse, pirates!

How to Play:

First thing's first, you need some goods to ship. No one is going to care if

an empty hauler pulls into their station. Space is a mean place though,

everything's on the escrow system. You're going to have to buy the goods up

front (albeit at a steep discount) to take them places to sell (back in my day,

people trusted one another!). Go ahead and approach your target station

(indicated by the blue triangle and distance marker from your nav system) and

when you're slow and close enough, press 'G' to start docking. If it helps, use

your Thrust Vectoring Control 'T' (city-talk for brakes). Careful though,

sometimes that thing chews through fuel like it's a bottle of Pink Label Scotch.

Now that you're good and docked you will notice a few things. There are a bunch

of goods that people want delivered. You get to pick which one, but try to

maximize it. The price you see is the total price you pay to ship, and upon

receipt you'll get some much higher value. Seems like these days people just put

random prices on things, so watch for fluxuations. 'taters today might be gold

tomorrow, ya know?

Once you make your selection, leave the station and you'll get the nav cursor

again. It shows you a distance and direction, that's really all you need. Oh, and

watch out for asteroids. They might look squishy like potatoes but they'll beat you

up real nice. If you do take a few dings coming into the station, they'll

automatically repair you for a fee. Last I reckoned it were 'bout 1 per

percent. If you don't spend 'em all you get credits or somethin. I don't trust 'em

too much.

Oh, and one last thing. Don't run out of fuel. This isn't some candy-apple ice-road

we're working on. This here is space. I don't want this to be the last time I hear

from ya.

That just about cover's it. I felt like I had somethin to tell ya about them drones

there but it seems I dang ran outta time again.

Welp. Fly safe, cowpoke.
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