This is the new game from Mechanic Moon Studio: Star Tycoons
You must select one of the companies to control the transport market of the alien system. You can buy ships, expand your hangar and build new outpost in moons, are you ready to be a star tycoon?
How to play: Use the button of the upper-left corner to access to your base and expand your hangar and buy ships.
Touch a ship or its icon to access to the path menu. Select the first planet and then the second planet to create a path to buy products in the first one, and sell products in the second one.
To reset a ship and empty its cargo, select it and press "Return to Hangar".
First steps (for example): 1. Buy two ships 2. Buy an outpost that offers Pigs. 3. Select a ship and create a path. 4. Click in the moon with the outpost and then click in the big planet. Confirm. 5. Earn money and explore more planets to create new commerce paths. 6. Expand hangar, buy ships,etc. 7. With the time, the system economy will change, depending of the offer and demand. Try to buy low and sell high, but taking care of the balance of each planet.
Whaaaa, those gorgeous graphics. Just wow! Very well done, solid gameplay and a lovely mood all around. I could spend quite a lot of time on this! Very well done!
Only improvement I could think of was some variations in music.
Nice game with good graphics and sound - well done! Unfortunately, I'm a bad "Star Tycoon"... I didn't get far and was raided by evil space pirates ;-)
Thanks for comments. The music is always a big problem, because we dont have a musician at the time, we will try to improve that part in the future ;-)
I love the music, its calming and soothing, and it suits this game perfectly well. The only problem I saw so far is the clicking on the ship and the pirate ship message issue. Other than that, this is a pretty nice game to waste your time on.
Bugs found so far: - The pirate space ship, on the second raid (second time attacked), they showed the same message of your previous action, like if you have paid 2000, it will show the same message again. Maybe you forgot to reset it? - Clicking on ships that are stacked together (very close to each other) will spawn all their info boxes.
Yeah, thanks for the comments xxmicloxx ,Tanner and KigurumiDevs. We must consider this as a prototype. Maybe in the future the game could be expanded. It depends of your votes ;-)
Nichii I will try to do a fix for the pirates problem, thanks!!
Great game! Very awesome graphics and a interesting gameplay. Maybe this is because of my Internet or my pc but this game lags ... this makes me sad but in the end its a great Jam-game!!!
Another tycoon game :P I made a tycoon game as well. It took me a while to figure out what to do in the beginning, have to read the descriptions in this post. After getting used to it, it gets better. I raided by the pirated tho :( Would be nice to have a button to speed up the game speed because waiting for money to come is a bit boring. Overall nice job!
This game is an overkill for a ludumdare. I can see lot of work behind this. I hope you finish and publish this game. It fits wells on mobile platforms. Good job.
I failed badly the first time after being raided by pirates and having 4 ships on the same route until I was buying for more than I was selling for, and losing money.
The second time I maxed out easily, and would have loved to have more to do.
Currently my ship is flying back and forth between a planet and an outpost. I am making large sums of money, but the interface seems frozen as I am unable to buy more outposts or ships. Using Win 7, latest Chrome, 2.4ghz i5, 8gb RAM.
bobrock, what version are you playing? html5 or windows? Can you remember what were the last action that you did? Maybe were you attacked by pirates? Thanks for the feedback!!
The only part of the interface that is working is the grid toggle. I'll try again after dinner with my family this evening. I find myself really wanting to play more... haha
I have updated the game removing the pirates event due to the bug :-( . They will be again inside the game for the post-ludum version and we will add more events too. ;-)
I played the game till i reach 25o k moneyunits and achieved all outposts. It's a solid experience. I miss some kind of enema or opponent though - I liked that the prices of buys and sells did vary quite a bit - but in the end my ships were always able to make profits. Graphics and Sound both were not AMAZING but fitted the game pretty well. However the game seems pretty finished and polished for an 72 hour competitiongame - i tap my hat. :)
It's a little bit confusing to grasp what to do, but with some tutorials, I could see myself wasting away hours with this game. Really clean and nice looking graphics, hope to see you develop it further, great job!
By the end I was making 30k on pigs each run. Shame you removed events cos there's really no challenge after that. O noticed what might be a bug if you max out your hangar upgrade the planet image reverts back to level 1.
Was pretty hard to start but working fine when I figured it out. Considering the fact that you even put the gif I assume more people had trouble? :) Nice entry
Ummm the title screen and start screen got me excited about it, music not bad. But then, when I tried to play the game, I couldn't seem to do anything!
danidre14 Did you see the the top-left corner button? You can buy ships and then click in the ship and create a path between planets to buy a product in the first one, and sell it in the second planet. Try again, and ask me for help if you have any problem ;-)
Wow, nice game. Good idea! Nice use of theme, and really great art style, suit very well with the proposed. It was difficult to start play, but after I found the list of what to to, was easy.
ninjascript, It depends of your votes. Our last three games in LD were part of the same universe: Hidden Prison, Tentacle Rails and this. You can think about it ;-)
The audio and graphics are some of the best I've seen so far! Mechanics took me a while to understand (I just jumped into the game and came back to read the description). Very impressive game. Great job!
Nice and simple simulation game. The mechanic is fun and the graphics are quite good. I did not read the tutorails so I stuck a bit at the beginning. But once I figured it out, I like it!
A good simulator game, great graphics and a enjoyable mechanics and game system. When I started to play I feeled a bit confused, but soon I was trading and building like a Star Tycoon.
Played the version without space pirates. I took a while to understand how trade routes worked, but finally made tons of money after a while :P Nice graphics and music :)
Complex game, with neat graphics and soothing music. A bit difficult to play unless you read the instructions. Very interesting gameplay and literal take on the theme. Well done!!
We have updated the game with some fixes: - A crash relative to the economy changes in planets. - Pirates have been reintroduced, but we need some feedback, if somebody has crashes, please report it!
One of the best entries I've seen. Gameplay feels a bit slow, it would be nice to be able to speed it up - unless you're going for a grind-heavy mobile game / pay gems to speed it up feel :)
Nice game with great graphics. Mechanics are difficult to understand. I got 3 ships, tried to do routes but it seemed that only one planet was allowed, having outposts everywhere but I don't understand what for...tried to upgrade hangar when having 3 ships and couldn't do it. So said, I believe it is a great effort that needs some fine tune and in-game instructions to be an awesome game.
Great graphic and interesting idea. The gameplay is really deep for only this amount of time. One suggestion is that in some cases, you should use more contextual menu and less modal windows cause it breaks the flow a bit imho.
Fun game. I struggled with the UI a little but overall I had fun with it. The presentation and audio were nice aswell.
Does the game have a winning condition? Sometimes when I clicked my hangar I couldn't click anything anymore and had to restart the game.
It's a little annoying that the planet windows can leave the game screen. It would be nice to have a tutorial ingame that follows your description. I could do many things that didn't make any sense e.g. pay pirates money I don't have, return to hanger even though I had no money, make a trade path where I try to sell a ressource which the planet doesn't accept.
I would like to see where you can go with this if you fix the bugs and give a clear goal.
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Only improvement I could think of was some variations in music.
Unfortunately, I'm a bad "Star Tycoon"... I didn't get far and was raided by evil space pirates ;-)
SiMouth, I have posted some instructions to begin, if you have more doubts, ask me without problem ;-)
Bugs found so far:
- The pirate space ship, on the second raid (second time attacked), they showed the same message of your previous action, like if you have paid 2000, it will show the same message again. Maybe you forgot to reset it?
- Clicking on ships that are stacked together (very close to each other) will spawn all their info boxes.
Nichii I will try to do a fix for the pirates problem, thanks!!
Very awesome graphics and a interesting gameplay.
Maybe this is because of my Internet or my pc but this game lags ... this makes me sad but in the end its a great Jam-game!!!
I really liked the graphic style, but felt a bit lost concerning the mechanics.
I failed badly the first time after being raided by pirates and having 4 ships on the same route until I was buying for more than I was selling for, and losing money.
The second time I maxed out easily, and would have loved to have more to do.
Thanks for the feedback!!
Nice use of theme, and really great art style, suit very well with the proposed.
It was difficult to start play, but after I found the list of what to to, was easy.
Nice graphics and music :)
- A crash relative to the economy changes in planets.
- Pirates have been reintroduced, but we need some feedback, if somebody has crashes, please report it!
Does the game have a winning condition? Sometimes when I clicked my hangar I couldn't click anything anymore and had to restart the game.
It's a little annoying that the planet windows can leave the game screen. It would be nice to have a tutorial ingame that follows your description. I could do many things that didn't make any sense e.g. pay pirates money I don't have, return to hanger even though I had no money, make a trade path where I try to sell a ressource which the planet doesn't accept.
I would like to see where you can go with this if you fix the bugs and give a clear goal.