Space Trading Game made in Rust based on the Trade Wars 2002 BBS game.
This game is in public alpha and is fully playable and winnable, but is still under continued development to make it more interesting and fun. I hope to eventually make this web multiplayer.
Please let me know if you find any bugs or have feedback! I have a dedicated channel for game updates and feedback on my discord. I have a running dev log located here: Syn9's Hideout.
Improve your planets, explore, trade goods, build your armada, conquer other houses, repeat.
Planets
- Population Menu - Use this menu to determine the allocation of population to different jobs, like making food, labor work, and scientific research.
- Manufacturing Menu - Use this menu to allocate manufacturing capacity to different areas. These goods can be used for trading or building fighter craft.
- Research Menu - Use this menu to determine what the planet researches. This will affect the planet's production.
- Cargo and Hangar Bay - Use this menu to transfer from the planet to your freighter.
Stations
- Trade - Use this menu to buy and sell goods at the station.
- Terra Link - Use this menu to see the status of your planets.
- Market Link - Use this menu to see prices at other known stations.
- Nav Center - Use this menu to download new navigation maps to the local regions and other stations.
- Houses - This menu shows the status of the other known royal houses in the galaxy.
Galaxy View
- The galaxy view allows navigation of your freighter to other planets and stations.
- From this view you can also access your cargo status or attack planets.
- Hold SPACE and move the mouse to pan.
- Use scroll wheel to zoom.
Combat
- When you attack a planet, the royal house controlling the planet will attempt to defend their territory.
- You can demand or offer a 10% tribute of freighter holds to end the attack early without surrender.
- Surrender yields 50% of freighter holds. If the defender surrenders you take control of the planet.
- Click the cell location to move/attack. The further the target, the lower probability of hit.
- Hotkeys: F-move forward, SPACE-skip turn, A-attack weakest nearby enemy.
- You can click the auto button to turn on auto-battle.
- Landing a hit on the enemy freighter will force surrender.
Capture all planets to win the game.
Thanks for playing!
Art Credit:
- This game was made for a gamejam during the month of October 2023 and uses background images and avatars that were created at open.ai to speed up prototyping. These images are not copyrightable. All of the small sprite graphics were created by me. If I ever release the game commercially I'll make sure to replace the AI art with human made art.