Space Warlord Baby Trading Simulator news & patch notes

Hello Traders, Get ready to shout at babies in a new and exciting way.* Today, we're launching our Voice Command support out of beta. We are beyond grateful to everyone who provided feedback on this feature during the testing period. Your input was invaluable!

Simply turn on the feature from the Audio menu, pick your input device, lean back, and navigate the entire Space Warlord Baby Trading Experience with just your voice.

Get back out there and let those babies know that you just hit the Short button and it would be VERY rude of them to suddenly have a great life. - Mike @ Strange Scaffold * Again, and I can't stress this enough, please do not shout at actual babies. I feel like I shouldn't have to keep saying this. - Chris

Hello, Traders!

From the moment we announced Space Warlord Baby Trading Simulator some of you asked “but will there be Kinect support?”, which had been in Organ Trading Sim. Sadly, the Kinect wasn’t something we could develop for this time but we did say we were working on something else that might scratch that same itch so…

It’s time to SHOUT THAT BABY!

Today, we're launching a beta for a voice command feature that will allow you to buy, sell, and short, fully navigate the Space Warlord Baby Trading Simulator menus, hire consultants, visit the Nursery of Fame, and much, much more. This is not directly available in the game because we’d love to get your help to test it all out first! 

To do this, you’re going to need to access a new build and you’d better believe the games producer, Mike, has written up exactly how you can do that…take it away, Mike! 

HI! My name is Mike and I'm the lead producer on Space Warlord Baby Trading Simulator.

First, thank you SO much for playing, giving us such great feedback, and inspiring us with your thoughts and suggestions for how to make the game even better!

• From your library, highlight Space Warlord Baby Trading Simulator and click the gear on the right side. From there, select Properties. 

• Select Game Versions & Betas.

• Under Private Versions, enter "shoutatbabies" (without the quotes) into the box and press Check Code. You'll see "Opt into: Voice" appear below the box. Click that!

• You'll need to Update to download the new version. Once you have that installed, visit the Settings menu.

• On the Audio tab, you'll see new voice input options. Check the Voice Input box.

• Select your desired microphone.

• Then click Set Input Device. (You must do this to initialize the voice input.)

From there, you can navigate the menus by saying the words that are on the buttons (Select, Buy, Sell, Short, etc.) and use directional commands (Up, Down, Left, Right). In instances in which there are not words on the button (the Theatre button on the Campaign select screen, the Bookmark button on the trading day recap), just say the keyboard command that appears by the icon.

We've set up a Google form to capture your feedback. Please let us know how it worked for you and if you discovered any challenges in navigation or trading day gameplay.

GOOGLE FORM

Thank you SO much for your support and for helping us test this important new accessibility feature!

And to echo Mike, thank you all for joining us on the Baby Trading journey!

Your feedback will be invaluable so please fill out the Google Form!

See you out there,

- Chris @ Strange Scaffold

Hello, traders! You asked for it, and Kris Krik delivered! You can get the Official Soundtrack for Space Warlord Baby Trading Simulator on Steam right now!

Now you can get that Baby Trading feeling anywhere you go. See you out there, - Chris @ Strange Scaffold

Hello, Traders!

We are back with our last big update for Space Warlord Baby Trading Simulator. We’ve got THREE NEW CAMPAIGNS and a bunch of quality of life features to see our little gremlin out of the post-launch updates right.

So, let’s get into it!

New Campaigns

• XX_Terror23_XX - Tasked you with LOSING a space-ton of cash. But be careful... lose too much too quickly and a kill squad will end your run.

• Wenbill’s Nightmare - It had to happen. Prepare for a TOUGH run.

• WooHoo Charlie - WooHoo Charlie is getting into Baby Trading, but he's making his manservant, Grob Olk, do the heavy lifting. Survive WooHoo Charlie's absurd demands and make bank for sire.

Quality of Life Features

• Shorts are visible in Daily Recaps -  See what went right and what went terribly.

• Nursery of Fame - Ever wish you could save your best babies to show off or your worst babies to yell at some more? Now you can! Bookmark up to 20 babies and revisit your greatest wins and most miserable losses.,

• Cutscene Theatre - Watch every unlocked cutscene and newscast from the clapboard icon in the campaign menu.

• Ending Viewer - We got a number of requests for this one! You’ll unlock every ending at your trophy rank and below from the Campaign menu. Pick a campaign, click “View Best” and you’ll see your trophies at the bottom. Click on them to view each ending that you’ve unlocked. So, if you’ve got gold, you can watch Bronze and Silver if you want to.

• Multiple Save Files - It does what it says, start new runs!

• Additional accessibility options - Slow mode for cognitive accessibility, high contrast text for visual accessibility.

Well, here we are, the end of the last patch notes for the last free update. I wanted to take a second to, on behalf of everyone at Strange Scaffold, say THANK YOU. This game has done better than we imagined it could, what with it being a little gremlin of a game. The amount of people playing, telling their friends, leaving reviews, playing it on stream, making videos about it and posting their thoughts has been beautiful to watch. Like every game we make, this game is born out of passion, hard work and a desire to share something with the world. When it connects with anyone, it’s a victory. So again, THANK YOU. Here on Steam reviews make such a huge difference in how much Steam floats the game to other folks that might like it so they are all appreciated!

Until next time...? See you out there - Chris @ Strange Scaffold 

Hello Traders, After our four weeks of new and exciting ways to short a baby, today we have a small one. Just a quick update that fixes a bug and adds a beta version of a new accessibility option. Bug Fixes

• Streaks were locking at three days and not tallying correctly. Those now work and display your current streak on the main menu when you have a new daily challenge available.

We’ve also added a beta of our OpenDyslexic implementation, which can be toggled in the Settings menu under the Misc. Tab. We hope this will make the font more readable for folks and feedback is encouraged!

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OpenDyslexic Font Thank you all again for all your feedback and for leaving reviews and telling your friends about the exciting opportunity that is baby trading. See you out there, - Chris @ Strange Scaffold.

Hello, Traders! It’s already been four weeks since Space Warlord Baby Trading Simulator launched and it’s been a ride which, honestly, we didn’t expect to go as far as it has! We loved and believed in our little gremlin of a game but you really never know how something is going to be received. Especially when that little gremlin is called Space Warlord Baby Trading Simulator.

The game has more than doubled the amount of stuff it launched with and all the while you’ve been out there shorting babies, making videos, posting about the game, leaving reviews and telling your friends. So here at the jump we really want to say a huge thank you for everything. But it’s not over yet, today we’ve got a new mode for you… Daily Challenges

You'll find these at the top of the Scenarios menu, with a new challenge available each day at 2 PM GMT / 9 AM ET / 6 AM PT. During daily challenges, you'll have planets lock and unlock, consultants come and go, and market conditions emerge to create new opportunities and complications.

You'll be able to earn up to three trophies per day and these, along with your money, contribute to your Scenarios level. Also, your play streak is tracked so you can earn three new achievements. So, grab your intergalactic guide to the markets, power on your FutureSee Terminal, and test your mettle against procedurally generated Daily Challenges.

We also have some bug fixes…

• VSync Fix - Trading babies was turning some PCs into an engine and as interested as we all are in new forms of propulsion, we wanted to fix it.

• Zombie Babies - Turns out, there was more room in hell. The unusual arrival of zombie babies during Interesting Times has been fixed.

If these, or any other issues, persist for you please leave a report here on the Steam forums or over on our Discord.

As I mentioned at the top, it’s been a wild four weeks. Our little gremlin has been streamed by some big creators and enjoyed by a whole bunch of you. And here, at the last of our weekly free content updates, we’re going to take a little break to recharge and focus on quality of life issues you have been reporting, along with a few other surprises. But, that’s a story for another day. For now though, again, thank you, and make sure you tell all your friends to…

SHORT THAT BABY! See you out there, - Chris @ Strange Scaffold

Hello, traders! Oh Grumble, while I love that I got to write the subtitle "Citizen Grumble will no longer make you grumble", this is not what I wanted for any of us. So, we have a very quick hotfix for you all that should fix the issue many were having playing the Grumble campaign.

• Citizen Grumble Campaign will no longer skip to Day 9 and be unplayable.

Again, thank you all for being quick to report the bugs and working with us to find the problem! If you find any other issues, as usual, right here on Steam or on our Discord are the best places to report them. See you out there, - Chris @ Strange Scaffold

Hello, traders!

Fire up your FutureSee Terminal because we’re back with Content Update 3! We’ve got two new campaigns and two new scenarios for you.

So first up, let’s meet our new friends and find out how awful they are what opportunities they have ahead of them in our new campaigns!

• Avett Clime - Galactically-renowned documentarian who has turned her camera lens on the Baby Trading market. You've got one week to finish your documentary, and you need to visit each of the seven planets once. Once you've visited a planet, you can't trade there again during this campaign.

• Citizen Grumble - Member of The Method, which is not a cult. It's a family. Xe's a former military officer from Gooble Gibby, and now xe's Baby Trading in The Pit. Oh, and xe's on some serious uppers. Xe trades FAST, which means you will too.

These are some “advanced” campaigns, so if you’re just joining the exciting world of Baby Trading today, maybe wait until you have the basics down. Or you know, jump right in. I have zero control in this situation, only advice.

Our new scenarios will also test your Baby Trading acumen.

• The Sandbox - 15 days and a trust fund will let you go far, unfortunately, but possibly great for you! See how much money you can make!

• Random Consultants - We've been excited to get this one in front of you (and some of you were asking for this specifically, and there is nothing cooler than seeing a feature request and knowing you’re already working on it). You've got seven days and a random roster of consultants each day. Good luck! 

We've made the decision to delay the Daily Challenges, which we wanted to include in today's update, by one week. This, like scenarios, is another chunky one for us, so we want to make sure it’s as perfect as we can get it. Fortunately, as mentioned, Content Update 4 is out next week so the wait isn’t too long.

We’re also throwing in some fixes and improvements while we’re here as well

• We changed the menu flow to make it less cluttered and easier to get to the mode you want to play.

• You can no longer spam the buy button to get a few shares at a huge discount.

• We've addressed the weird issue with the cursor locking out keyboard functions.

• Adjusted unlock requirements for Campaigns

Now we have a total of 11 campaigns (how have only three weeks gone by since we launched with six?!) adjusting the unlock conditions felt like a wise move. Don’t worry though, if you’ve unlocked everything already these new conditions won’t lock you out.

• You'll still start with two available campaigns (Pixem and Mr. Zip-It).

• Two Bronze Trophies -  Wenbill and Holmit Miske unlock.

• Three Bronze Trophies, - Nuria Voll and Representative Hoddle unlock

• Four Bronze Trophies - B'ho Maximum and Fulds unlock.

• Five Bronze Trophies - Avett Clime's tour of the galaxy becomes available.

• Six Bronze Trophies - Citizen Grumble's adorable Fuzz butt and Wengrave Shup round out the current roster.

We'll continue to tweak unlock conditions as more campaigns are added in the future.

We are also aware that some of you have found an exploit in the trading terminal. Enjoy it while it lasts, because the BTC (Baby Trade Commission) is investigating.

I want to take a second to thank all of you who have been reporting bugs here and on our Discord and then helping us figure out why it’s happening. We’re a small team so your help has helped us find things even combing through the game we didn’t spot. So again, thank you!

And what’s that, another thank you?! Yes! THANK YOU to everyone who has been playing, talking about and enjoying this game. It’s not lost on us that you have spent your money and chosen to spend hours of your day on the little gremlin of a game we’ve made when there are so many other things to do. Behind every game there are multiple people, all with a love and passion for the thing they are creating. Buying any game helps keep the lights on for those people.

Telling folks about it, leaving a review, streaming it, making videos about it, writing about it, all help it spread further than we ever could alone. It’s getting harder out there for everyone and I’ll say it again, your support of this game and our studio means the galaxy to us. So until next week…

See you out there,

- Chris @ Strange Scaffold

Hello, traders! It’s a glorious day that you don't need to pay Chad Shakespeare a cut of, it’s SCENARIOS DAY plus some some additional fixes*! “What’s a scenario”, one may reasonably ask, well, if you don’t think I’m about to tell you then our relationship has got off on the wrong foot. 

Scenario mode is our sandbox for providing you new challenges, each of which has a twist. Unlike the campaigns you’re not making money for someone else, this is pure baby trading. Pick your portrait and your title and get trading.

We’ve got six scenarios to start with, which you'll unlock once you complete Pixem and Mr. Zip-It's campaigns. Here's what we have waiting for you in this first batch:

• Get In, Get Out: You've got three days to make as much cash as possible.

• Adopted Hometown: Pick any planet on Day 1, but that's the only place you can trade for the remaining five days.

• Red Ocean: Every day, you'll have random planets removed from your trading terminal. Weave your way through to make bank.

• Galactic Disease: To a trader, a disaster is an opportunity to make even more money.

• White Knuckle: No consultants, no side bets, and the trading moves FAST.

• Quota: Over 20 days, our longest challenge yet, every five days, you'll need to exceed a target that increases throughout the run. Oh, and we're taking 80% of your money on those days, too! Good luck!

Scenarios mode also has a running tally of how much money you've earned for extra “I truly am a Baby Trader” cred to share with folks. As you win trophies, you'll unlock new portraits and titles to use in Scenarios mode.

This is just the beginning for Scenarios mode! We have ideas. More scenarios will land along with new campaigns in next week's free content update. But until then…

See you out there,

- Chris @ Strange Scaffold *Which sounds less exciting but neither are beans. Nobody is cheering for beans but I'll tell you, you miss them when they aren’t in a stew! The game is the stew.

Hello, traders!

Just a couple of little updates on this, the eve before the next content update! Tomorrow will see The New Stuff so get ready for that, for right though now we have a couple of fixes for you...

• Bookie predictions no longer show in the pause screen when a character should not have access to them.

• The rewards screen would sometimes break and show the wrong character ending. This has now been fixed.

Oh hey, if you're reading this, while I have you, I just want to say another thank you from myself and the whole team. This game is starting to get around and it's thanks to folks like yourself letting everyone you know in on this little gremlin of a game. We're a small, part time group of folks and seeing some BIG creators play our game, along with all the positive reaction and discussion has been amazing.

THANK YOU!

If you haven't yet, we would love it if you could leave a review as they still make a big difference to how many people Steam will show the game to, but until tomorrow...

See you out there, - Chris @ Strange Scaffold

Hello, traders!

Well, we told you there would be two new campaigns available today but if you’ve seen the headline you know that things have changed...numerically.

Let’s take a look at those updates…

• Three new campaigns featuring your new friends…

• Nuria Voll pawns everything to ride the wave of high value baby trading... but the market won't always cooperate

• Fulds is a fugitive on the run, and he needs to keep the authorities guessing. Where you trade today has consequences for tomorrow!

• B'ho Maximum risks it all, buys a second-hand terminal, and begins their journey from rags to riches on the Baby Trading market.

• Minor balance tweaks to certain consultants to align the value of their information with their earnings.

• Chad Shakespeare has agreed to be a very good boy. Oh yes he is. He's the best boy. (And that little Integer Underflow bug got hit with flea and tick remover).

The new campaigns will unlock after earning at least a bronze trophy on Pixem and Mr. Zip-It's campaign. There is no change to the unlock conditions for the final campaign (Wengrave Shup), giving you more options in our anthology format.

Next week a new game mode, Scenarios, is coming your way and the week after that? Two new campaigns and more scenarios! This rocket will go beyond the moon, pass Mars (it's got that billionaire stink, ew) and out into the universe.

We’ve seen a lot of you playing the game and we’ve enjoyed watching you all shout at the screen the way we have been internally before it came out. THANK YOU for playing and THANK YOU for letting your friends, favourite creators and outlets know about our little gremlin of a game.

More importantly than that though, please, remember…

SHORT THAT BABY! See you out there, - Chris @ Strange Scaffold

Hello, traders!

Some small patch notes for a few little fixes...

• A fix for Chad Shakespeare's read out sometimes displaying nonsense numbers.,

• A fix for the main menu buttons, which would sometimes not highlight correctly when using the mouse.

• Tweaked the Psychic achievement so it should be achievable (but still difficult to get)

The first of our new content comes out on the 5th so we're only a few days away! Two new campaigns? Yes please!

Keep shorting those babies! - Chris @ Strange Scaffold

Hello, traders! Firstly, thank you to everyone who has already jumped into the game on launch day! The whole team are sat watching your streams, comments and posts with huge smiles on our faces. THANK YOU!

So, let's talk post about launch content.

As a statement sounds way more serious than I'd like. Like I've asked you to "take a seat" or "can I have a quick word?". I don't know why I'm explaining this now, you can clearly see the image below. Let's just focus on that and what's written under it. This is like a secret little bit that only we've read! Wait, is this bonus content? No. But this is!

We will have at least two months of free updates and content coming out with two new campaigns coming out next week! I'm particularly excited about the daily challenge mode as I've seen some of the stuff the team is testing out and it's...well, you'll see. Again, thank you all so much for supporting our little gremlin of a game and if you've enjoyed it please leave a review. They let the steam robot know people like it and that maybe others will as well! See you out there, - Chris @ Strange Scaffold

Hello, traders! Space Warlord Baby Trading Simulator is HERE!

I asked Xalavier Nelson Jr., the Head of Strange Scaffold, for a comment on this most auspicious day.

"This is one of the best games we've ever made, and I have no idea how to explain it to my newborn child. What am I gonna tell them? That it wasn't based on their life? That it was? Baby Trading Simulator isn't even out yet and it's already ruined my family." 

With that in mind, let’s talk POST LAUNCH STUFF! There will be a minimum of two months worth of post-launch support kicking off with weekly DLC. The first taste is free and then…well, they’re free updates so the second taste will be free as well.

• February 5: Two new campaigns

• February 12: A new game mode with a number of challenging scenarios

• February 19: Two new campaigns, more scenarios, and the addition of a daily challenge mode.

We’re incredibly proud of this game and have been blown away by the response we have got so far. If you enjoy the game, please leave a little review as this first week is HUGE for how much Steam will show the game to other people. And hey, tell a friend! Get them to tell their friend! Have their friend stream it and tag us in the videos! But most importantly… SHORT THAT BABY! See you out there, - Chris @ Strange Scaffold

Hello, trader! Space Warlord Baby Trading Simulator will launch on January 29th! So, at the time of writing, exactly one week from now!

We've been blown away by the reception to the demo, which will be staying online until launch, so I just wanted to say a quick THANK YOU for sharing this game around! It honestly makes a huge difference to the visibility of the game and it means the world to us!

So, until the 29th, Short That Baby and tell a friend they should do the same.

See you on the trading floor,

- Chris @ Strange Scaffold

Hello, traders!

Firstly, thank you so much to all of you have been playing the demo, added the game to your wishlist, streaming, making content and talking about our game. It means a TON to a smaller team like ours and I can't express the joy we've had seeing so many of you really enjoy what we're making.

With that in mind, we've got a bunch of fixes, rebalances and the like that we've been working on so let's take a look at...

Patch Notes

• Rebalancing across the demo campaigns.

• Changes to the loan shark flow. The player's first (and only) loan can now be taken optionally from day 2 of a campaign.

• An indicator has been added to the player's ID card in the bottom left to show when they've already taken a loan.

• The big number counter in the top right corner of the trading window will no longer get stuck at higher numbers.

• We also hope this is the solve for the freezing that some players were experiencing from time to time.

• The buy button is no longer behaving inconsistently at the start of the trading day.

• Fixed a bug where the game would break when you earn over Ten Million Credits. Seriously, even we never had a run that good, wild.

• Fixed a bug where localised languages would say "IMPLEMENTED" for every piece of dialogue. Considering making it a feature.

Again, thank you all SO MUCH and if you haven't added the game to your wishlist and you've enjoyed the demo please consider adding it. It helps surface the game to more folks who might also want to SHORT THAT BABY so we greatly appreciate it!

See you on the trading floor,

- Chris @ Strange Scaffold