Helion

Life as a trader/miner in the outer rim is tough. With fully automated trading systems, it's just you and the computer jumping from stations to asteroid to station, buying and selling goods and mining to make a profit!

Helion is a first-person space trading and mining game. Due to time constraints it also ended up being endless and casual. It was inspired by the 0x10c concept, wolf32, Elite, and Oregon Trail, and Minecraft.

Written in C# and MonoGame

Controls

Up, Down, Left, Right arrows for moving/turning. Alt+left/right to strafe. Enter, 0-9, when interacting with the ship computer Space bar to mine in Asteroids

Gameplay

Not much game play to speak of, ran out of time before I could fully flesh out the trading & mining systems. I wanted to add oxygen, heat, and power levels to the HUD when mining, and make mines extremely large with the ability to build units for life support. I also had some larger ships planned with upgrades. All-in-all, too ambitious for 48 hours considering I started without any defined engine :P.

Find the ship computer and use your initial credits to purchase a ship.

Then purchase some goods if you like to resell at other stations.

When you're done, enter your ship at one of the docking bays.

Use the ship's computer to navigate to an asteroid to mine (fills cargo with ore/gems when not at capacity), or another station to sell the goods.

Stations are associated with colonies of 3 types. Type1 colonies will usually pay a premium for medicine and computers. Type2 colonies have stable economies and pay mid prices for all commodities. Type3 colonies will usually pay a premium for food and textiles.

Build up your credits and purchase the upgraded ship I haven't played it enough to buy the upgrade, it could have issues.

Lather. Rinse. Repeat. The gameplay is definitely lacking :(.