Space Trader for Windows
Space Trader is a complex space trading strategy game.
The player starts out with a small space ship, armed with one simple laser, and 1000 credits in cash.
The safest and easiest way to earn money is to trade goods between neighbouring solar systems.
If the player chooses the goods to trade wisely, it isn't too difficult to sell goods with a profit.
There are other ways to get rich, though. You might become a bounty hunter and hunt down pirates.
It is also possible to become a pirate yourself and rob honest traders of their cargo.
Beware, though: pirating is a way to get rich quickly, but the police force will go after you.
Space trader is a program that has already been fully ported into C# (.NET).
Its closest equivalent would probably be Sid Meier's Pirates.
You can get quests,
encounter pirates and police,
get a number of models of ships and customize them with gear,
get skilled crew,
level up as a captain,
and retire.
Space Trader for Windows - Screenshots
Space Traders was originally a Palm OS game and so it originally displayed as many separate screens and at an even smaller resolution than the Zune.
At any given time there are not that many choices (buttons) on the screen.
-The
arrow keys could navigate from button to button
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A (the center button) would select buttons
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Back and
B could be used to cycle forward and backward between available screens.
The game is deceptively large, given how simple the graphics look. I would never suggest it but it is already in C#.net and open source. Further, some of the original open source code from the palm version might be used where the windows graphics need to be redone (the windows version uses frames). I do not know how much memory it uses to store the many variables in the game but I suspect that it would not be to great, as the game was originally meant for a mobile platform and given that the game has very little graphics, the 15 MB of memory on the Zune would probably be enough.
Here is the link to the Windows game's home page
http://spacetraderwin.sourceforge.net/home.php
and the sourceforge page
http://sourceforge.net/projects/spacetraderwin/
and the home page for the original palm game programed in C
http://ticc.uvt.nl/~pspronck/spacetrader/STFrames.html
Open source Space Trader for Windows C# (.NET)
