Traverse

The aim of Traverse is to gather 1000 units of Maguffium in your Mother Ship's cargo hold. Warp between different planets to take advantage of the varying prices for commodities. Take care to land your Drop Ship carefully, and watch out for pirate attacks and asteroid fields when navigating the galaxy!

Controls

Navigate menus with the mouse.

Campaign Mode 

Mouse navigates UI

Left click to transfer commodities in small increments.

Right click to transfer maximum amount of commodities.

Can specify quantities in text fields as well.

Esc/Start to bring up Save or Quit menu.

Drop Ship

A/D or Left/Right or Left Stick -> Steer Anti-Clockwise/Clockwise

Enter/A Button                  -> Release Drop Ship From Mother Ship

Space Bar/Right Trigger         -> Thrusters

Mother Ship

Shield Controls:

Mouse Position or Left Stick Position controls shield rotation

Mouse Wheel Up/Down turns shields On/Off [Resting the left stick turns off shield with gamepad controls]

Gun Controls:

A/D or Left/Right or Right Stick -> Aim Anti-Clockwise/Clockwise

Right Trigger/Space Bar          -> Shoot

About

Traverse was originally made as part of One Game a Month, back in June 2014. Largely inspired by a general sense of wanting to make a space trading game, combined with wanting to do a bit of a take on some old spacey arcade games like Lunar Lander and Asteroids. 

A lot of the systems in the game are very oblique, and the landing game is quite tough to get the hang of (particularly given that there is a wind mechanic, that's never really mentioned in game). However, I've got a real soft spot for it and I think it's one of the more fully fleshed out One Game a Month games.