Galactic traders

Galactic traders

Galactic traders is a real time strategy (RTS) game. You have to build a strong army and colonies to destroy your enemy. Every 10 seconds:
* Market is updated
* Resources are generated
* Opportunities appear

I encourage you to post your fastest time to beat the game or the longest time you survived for (I'm not yet sure if it's difficult or not).

NOTE: The game throws you into tutorial and after finishing it or skipping it you get a real match.

Controls

The game contains a tutorial, that starts once the game is open (not when restarting after game over).

F2 - Skip tutorial.

Mouse left click - All actions.

ESC - Unselect.

Tips and info

- Fleet units stack, if there is at least one in the build area (blue tiles). You can move fleet away to create a new stack, or move them back to make a stack bigger.

- Enemy renews blockade, unless all blockading ships are destroyed.

Scoreboard

1. ZLuca - 21 min 39 sec
2. Jimbly - 32 minutes
3. Paja - 40 min 21 sec

Running the game

On Windows you can download the zip which includes Java JRE so that you don't have to download it. Start the game by running run.bat script.

The game is available as .jar file or source code. It was developed on Linux (KDE Neon) system, but should be platform independent.

The game does not run

It's mostl likely that you're missing the needed Java stuff - you just __need to have the latest Java SDK__ (download Java).

Windows

Just double click the file and it should open if you have Java SDK installed.

Linux and Mac

If double click does not work for you then just type `java -jar GalacticTraders.jar` in terminal in the folder where you downloaded the game.
(In case downloading jdk from link above was not helpful, look in your repos for `java-11-openjdk-11.0.12.0.7.4.fc34.x86_64` by using your packaging app like `sudo dnf install ...`/`sudo apt-get install ...` or similar.)

About the game(dev)

This is a COMPO entry (made within 48 hours) all by me (the art, sound effects, fonts, code...).
I made this in Java using my custom hand made engine (that's why it's somewhat small, but might have some problems with portability... oops).

Post compo edits

- Changed the text at the end of a tutorial to "Tutorial finished" from "Victory" and "Press [Enter] to restart" to "Press [Enter] to start a real match" to avoid confusion.
- Fixed bug, where enemy blockade was renewed also if it was destroyed (because of a missing check).
- Scanner opportunity card was removed, since it cause bugs, where repair ship were unusable.