Ever dial into a BBS in the early 90's? The satisfying screech of your modem connecting and the subsequent trickle of text across your screen at a screaming 2400 baud? Then you most likely played the game Trade Wars. It was a text based game played against other users of the BBS where you buy and sell goods while travelling through space. Why do I bring this up? Because Star Shipping Inc. is Trade Wars with graphics ...and no one else to play with.
Episodic releases are a pretty new thing for games. We've had a few successful releases (such as Tales of Monkey Island, or the Wallace and Gromit games, both by Telltale Games, and Amaranth Games' Aveyond series). Taking Uri Fink's successful Pizza Morgana comic and turning it into a game should be a piece of cake - or a slice of pizza. The problem is that the game ends just as it starts to cook.