Autonomous - Elite-style Space Explorer

cjoshuav · Aug 28, 2008, 07:12 PM

Anyone else playing around with Autonomous? It's meant to be an Elite clone (for those of you who are old-school PC gamers), and seems to be a great concept. The implementation is a little spartan and buggy, but I'm willing to stick with it and see where the game goes.

Just wondered what others thoughts were.

Joshua

cjoshuav · Aug 28, 2008, 07:18 PM

Here's the review I posted on iTunes

I so wanted to like this game, and I think I will after a few updates. Right now it needs:

1. A much larger galaxy.
2. A news feed to give suggestions about what to buy/sell where
3. Graphs to illustrate profits/losses and market trends
4. A reminder of what you paid for your cargo
5. A way to updgrade your ship
6. Names for planets
7. A ships log to record planets visited, purchases made, etc.
8. Factions (put this low on the list, but it would be nice) and Faction Ranks
9. Opportunities to explore with a high enough navigation skill

chrisb3 · Aug 28, 2008, 08:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cjoshuav

Anyone else playing around with Autonomous? It's meant to be an Elite clone (for those of you who are old-school PC gamers), and seems to be a great concept. The implementation is a little spartan and buggy, but I'm willing to stick with it and see where the game goes.

Just wondered what others thoughts were.

Joshua

It's actually more of a port of Space Trader for the Palm and Win Mobile platforms. A bad port of it too. I was told by the dev a good month ago that an update was coming, but nothing yet.

Randman · Aug 28, 2008, 11:18 PM

I too thought it was a Space Trader port and bought it. Worst decision so far when it comes to the App Store.

chrisb3 · 05:38 AM

A new version has been released to the AppStore. The page says 1.0, but the download will be 1.1.

Haven't tried out the new version yet.

No listing of new features either.

cjoshuav · Aug 29, 2008, 10:19 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by chrisb3

It's actually more of a port of Space Trader for the Palm and Win Mobile platforms.

But wasn't Space Trader an Elite-genre game?

Joshua

paj · Aug 29, 2008, 10:55 AM

Ah.. memories. I wasted many hours playing Elite on my BBC computer.

chrisb3 · Aug 29, 2008, 11:05 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cjoshuav

But wasn't Space Trader an Elite-genre game?

Joshua

Space Trader for the Palm/WM platforms is a kind of 2D version of Elite. Which is what Autonomous is clearly copying.

I actually question as to whether or not Pixio can charge a fee for this as this appears to be a direct port of a free game under the GNU Public License.

I wonder what the developer of Space Trader thinks about this? Or if he knows about it?

Aug 28, 2008, 07:12 PM	#1
cjoshuav macrumors member Join Date: Aug 2008	Autonomous - Elite-style Space Explorer Anyone else playing around with Autonomous? It's meant to be an Elite clone (for those of you who are old-school PC gamers), and seems to be a great concept. The implementation is a little spartan and buggy, but I'm willing to stick with it and see where the game goes. Just wondered what others thoughts were. Joshua
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Randman macrumors 65816 Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Jacksonville, Fla	I too thought it was a Space Trader port and bought it. Worst decision so far when it comes to the App Store. __________________ This is a computer-generated message and needs no signature.
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chrisb3 macrumors regular Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Brooklyn, NY	A new version has been released to the AppStore. The page says 1.0, but the download will be 1.1. Haven't tried out the new version yet. No listing of new features either. __________________ What I've learned from playing SMB is that monkeys fall at a speed of 263mph, on average. Last edited by chrisb3; Aug 29, 2008 at 05:38 AM.
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cjoshuav Thread Starter macrumors member Join Date: Aug 2008	Here's the review I posted on iTunes I so wanted to like this game, and I think I will after a few updates. Right now it needs: 1. A much larger galaxy. 2. A news feed to give suggestions about what to buy/sell where 3. Graphs to illustrate profits/losses and market trends 4. A reminder of what you paid for your cargo 5. A way to updgrade your ship 6. Names for planets 7. A ships log to record planets visited, purchases made, etc. 8. Factions (put this low on the list, but it would be nice) and Faction Ranks 9. Opportunities to explore with a high enough navigation skill
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