🚢 Ship Tycoon

📦 What is This?

Ship Tycoon is a strategic business simulation game where you build and manage a fleet of vehicles, complete delivery missions, and grow your shipping company from a small startup into a logistics empire!

Hire vehicles, assign them to lucrative cargo missions, upgrade your fleet, and watch your money roll in. Every successful delivery increases your reputation and experience — level up to unlock even bigger opportunities!

🎮 Controls & Gameplay

🖱️ Basic Controls

Action	How to Do It
Select a vehicle	Click on any vehicle on the map
Assign a mission	Click on a colored mission circle with a vehicle selected
Buy a new vehicle	Click the "Buy Vehicle" button
Upgrade selected vehicle	Click the "Upgrade Vehicle" button
Speed up time	Click the "Speed Up Time" button (toggle 1x/2x speed)

🚗 Vehicle Types

Vehicle	Speed	Capacity	Color	Icon
Truck	1.8	250	🔵 Blue	🚚
Van	3.2	120	🟢 Green	🚐
Sports Car	4.5	60	🔴 Red	🏎️

💡 Tip: Choose the right vehicle for the job — trucks haul more but move slower, sports cars are fast but carry less!

📋 Mission System

• Missions appear as colored circles on the map
• Each mission has a difficulty rating (1-5 stars)
• Rewards scale with difficulty — harder missions pay more!
• Missions have time limits — complete them before time runs out!
• Active missions are shown as pulsating circles
• Failed missions cost you reputation

📈 Progression & Stats

💰 Money

Earn money from completing missions. Use it to:

• Buy new vehicles ($2000 each)
• Upgrade existing vehicles (cost increases with level)

⭐ Reputation

• Gain reputation by completing missions successfully
• Lose reputation when missions fail
• Higher reputation unlocks more prestigious opportunities

🎯 Experience & Level

• Earn experience (EXP) from every completed mission
• Level up to unlock new content and higher rewards
• Each level requires 1.5× more EXP than the last

🚚 Fleet Management

• Start with 2 vehicles (truck + van)
• Expand your fleet to handle multiple missions simultaneously
• Each vehicle can only handle one mission at a time

🔧 Upgrades

Upgrade your vehicles to improve their performance:

Upgrade Cost	Effect
Level × $500	+0.7 speed, +75 capacity

Vehicles can be upgraded multiple times — the cost increases with each level!

🎨 Visual Features

• Color-coded vehicles — instantly identify vehicle types
• Mission path lines — see where your vehicles are heading
• Progress indicators — visual timers show mission time remaining
• Pulsing effects — active missions glow for easy spotting
• Selection highlights — selected vehicles glow with a cyan border
• Smooth animations — vehicles move realistically across the map
• Beautiful gradient backgrounds with grid overlay

📊 Real-time Stats

Keep track of your empire at a glance:

• Money — with a progress bar showing your wealth
• Level — your current company level
• Experience — progress toward next level
• Reputation — your standing in the shipping world
• Active Missions — how many deliveries are currently available
• Vehicles — total fleet size

🔄 Game Speed Control

• Toggle between 1x and 2x speed
• Speed up time to progress faster — perfect for waiting on deliveries!
• Visual indicator shows current speed multiplier

🖥️ Platforms

• Web – play directly in your browser
• Optimized for desktop with mouse controls
• Responsive design works on various screen sizes

🛠️ Built With

Pure HTML, CSS, and JavaScript — no libraries or frameworks needed!