SPACE X

An open-world space trading sim with teeth.

You pilot a lone ship through a procedurally generated 8000x8000 space sector — no hand-holding, no tutorial, no safety net. The economy is alive, the pirates are patient, and every session is a new world.

What you'll do

Mine — Blast through asteroid fields. Large rocks split into smaller ones until they yield raw resources. Use your mining laser to extract ore, fuel, and parts without destroying the rock.

Trade — Dock at any of 7 station types, from Ore Refineries to Bio Domes. Buy low, sell high across a dynamic market that shifts every few seconds. AI ships are real competitors — they buy, sell, mine, and drive prices just like you do.

Fight — Or run. Laser combat is twitchy and inertia-based. Pirates spawn from their base every 40 seconds and will hunt you across the sector. Three AI factions patrol, trade, and occasionally decide you look like easy prey. A fearsome battleship roams the sector with 6 turrets and 5000 HP — and it remembers who shot it.

Upgrade — Invest your earnings into 5 upgrade tracks: Weapon Damage, Cargo Hold (+25/tier), Reinforced Hull (+50 HP/tier), Faster Engines, and Reduced Fire Cooldown. Each upgrade has multiple tiers requiring credits plus specific resources.

Complete Quests — Every station offers 4 kill-based quests targeting pirates or rival factions. Higher kill counts mean bigger rewards — and bigger risks.

Earn Achievements — 18 achievements across Mining, Combat, Trading, and Wealth categories track your progress. Unlocks persist between sessions via localStorage.

Survive — Manage your health (regenerates over time), 30 rounds of ammo, and a 100-unit cargo hold. Repair hulls, refuel, stock up on medkits. If you die, you lose 20% of your cargo and half your credits.

What makes it different

• Living economy — Stations manufacture goods from raw inputs via recipes. AI ships are active market participants, not price-taking NPCs. Supply chains emerge, break, and shift — and you can exploit them.
• Procedural everything — World layout, station names, asteroid fields, pirate positions, and economic conditions are all generated fresh each session.
• Asteroids-style physics — Thrust, rotate, drift. No point-and-click. Movement has weight and momentum.
• Boss encounters — A named battleship patrols the sector, hostile to pirates and anyone who draws its attention. It respawns 120 seconds after destruction.
• Persistent progress — Achievements carry across sessions. Your mining, combat, trading, and wealth milestones are never lost.
• Zero dependencies — Pure vanilla JavaScript and HTML5 Canvas. No downloads, no build step, runs in any modern browser.

Controls

Key	Action
W / Arrow keys	Thrust & rotate
Space	Fire laser
M	Toggle mining laser
E	Dock / undock
C	Toggle achievements panel
1-8	Select resource to buy/sell
B / S	Buy / Sell while docked
Q	Open station quests panel while docked
Tap	Open ship upgrades panel while docked

Resources

Ore · Fuel · Parts · Food · Scrap · Ammo · Electronics · Medkits

HUD

Ship status bar, minimap, inventory, station proximity indicators, floating notifications, achievement popups, and low-health warning border.

Built with vanilla JS. No engines, no frameworks, no external assets. Every sound is synthesized, every particle is hand-drawn.

This project is an experiment on what can be achieved using an entirely local AI LLM. Built with Qwen3.6 27b and OpenCode