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Space Trader

About

Space Trader is a chill space exploring game in which you trade resources from asteroids.
Travel from planet to planet to found the best prices, but be careful because pirates will try to kill you.
Upgrade your ship (capacity or shield), fight enemies, buy low, sell high and have fun !

Features

  • Infinite "universe"
  • Procedurally generated planets
  • Random prices relative to offer and demand
  • Asteroids-like controls

Trade

Fight

Explore

Update 1.1

  • Added margin to HUD
  • Added margin to trade menu
  • Changed upgrade buttons (replaced LEFT/RIGHT by X/O)
  • Repair price is now cheaper
  • Danger text is now blinking
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WOW. Amazing game ! I am on my baby steps into pico-8 and this is inspiring ! Very Welldone ! :)



Thank you @kumodot :)



This is great!
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I spent one hour on it yesterday, fun game. Reminds me good time spent on Elite II when I was young.

The very first time I played, I was very frustrated because I did not notice top-left mini map, and was spending most of my time trying to find planets... but I did notice it on a screenshot and then it was much more enjoyable.

It seems the easiest way to make big $$ is to harvest asteroids and fight more than buying/selling, but it's still fun. I'll try another run where I reach maximum cargo size and do large buy and resell operations..
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This is really great - the look and feel is really good.
The UI is particularly nice and clean.

I really wished I could've included fighting enemy ships + mining asteroids, etc. in Low Mem Sky, but alas I filled it up with running around on planets. 😅

Nice work! 👍

This is one of my favorite pico8 games so far. I love the buying, selling, and mining. Great game!

This is pretty good. I'm extremely grateful there's no inertia. Makes it much easier to control. Dog fighting feels pretty good. Making a good trade is a lot of fun, but getting stuck with a crap trade is tough.

My only complaint is that there's nothing really to explore. It gets kinda samey real quick. It's not a bad samey, but it seems to me it could be better with just a few optional upgrades. Things like an upgradable mineral radar that will have asteroids within an upgradable radius show up on your radar, or a homing missile system (again, upgradable for tighter turning radius on the missiles).

My hope is to get the cargo hold up to 99, but that seems impossible with the price creep.



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