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September 2015 Game Trailer

Sol Trader is an epic space action adventure with 200 years of random characters to discover. The game features a complex procedural history generator, inspired by the adventure and legends mode in Dwarf Fortress. Each new game is already two centuries old, with a living history full of characters that are born, live and die before you even exist. When you create a character in this world, you face the same choices as all the computer-controlled citizens did. The decisions you make in your character’s early life set your starting skills and attributes, and your family connections and business contacts.

Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/852671098/sol-trader

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Features

• Single-player combination of arcade 2D spaceflight and strategic manipulation of your network of contacts
• Run missions using your family and friends' connections to government or business
• No ship given to you at game start: you must take a loan and hire a ship, or borrow one from a wealthy relative
• Fly between planets, interacting with the various characters you come across in cities and in space
• Research information on other characters through chatting to friends and relatives
• Customise your ship with lasers, passenger quarters, shields, bolt weapons, missiles and scanners (coming soon)
• Blackmail others with the information you find, or sell it to the press (coming soon)
• Trade goods for profit
• Procedural generation of a whole society of thousands of random characters
• Start every new game from your character's birth
• Choose your parents and all your major life choices as you grow up
• Your choices determine your personality and your friends, relatives and enemies
• Full modding support: change all the organisations, events, weapons, planets, ships, conversations and tutorial system.
• Windows, Mac and Linux at launch
• Already greenlit on Steam

Website: http://soltrader.net
Windows Demo: http://soltrader.net/get-demo-windows
Mac Demo: http://soltrader.net/get-demo-mac

[chrismdp]

Hi there,

I'm the developer Happy to answer any questions people have!

Chris

[chrismdp]

Just to let you all know: there's a new demo version out, including the most often requested feature: the ability to fast-forward time until the morning. You can now rent a hotel room for a small fee which allows you to sleep for one night, or you can sleep at home.

All the details are in the latest update:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/852671098/sol-trader/posts/1375609

Any questions or feedback on the new features let me know!

Chris

[chrismdp]

Quick update: I've been hard at work on some new lighting code, which is now done ready for the beginning of the combat work next week. You can download the new demo now, hit "H" to turn on some test headlights, and head over to a jump gate to try them out!

In the full game, you'll need those headlights out in far reaches of the solar system. The sun's light will be very dim out there and there'll be plenty of dangerous asteroid and debris fields to navigate...

Check out the update here, along with a sneak preview of what it looks like:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/852671098/sol-trader/posts/1377704

[chrismdp]

I've managed to get a new demo up and running, with new smoother graphics, very nice lighting and a start on the combat

All the details are in the update here:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/852671098/sol-trader/posts/1382382

With just six days to go and 70% funded, it looks like it might be a tight finish

[chrismdp]

24 hours to go, and 89% funded. Going to be an extremely close finish...

Latest update: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/852671098/sol-trader/posts/1387411