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positech.co.uk - 3 hours ago
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Ok, so it’s finally here. The long awaited
invasion of the space tree-huggers* is upon us: THE...
TRIBE!!!!!!!!! bwahahaha Video! I’ve never released an expansion pack for a game before, but I think GSB was the perfect game to do so. I have no idea how it will sell. I hope to ...
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Gratuitous Expansion Pack Released!
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positech.co.uk - 26 hours ago
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Here is some more information on how the
supply limits stuff will be presented This first image...
shows the choose mission screen, after I hit the new ’supply limits’ button for a specific scenario. (The button only appears if limits have been defined). Only modules which are ...
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Supply Limits Screenshots
positech.co.uk - 2 days ago
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One of the naturally occuring design conundrums with
GSB is preventing there emerging any single killer strategy...
that always wins. I’ve put a lot of time and effort into avoiding this, both before and after releasing the game. One way to do this is the conventional Rock Paper Scissors ...
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Supply Limits
positech.co.uk - 4 days ago
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As it is the UK custom to drop
the interest rate on all bank accounts, and then...
open new ones each month with a higher rate (to screw customers out of money) anyone who keeps an eye on things in the UK and doesn’t like rip-offs has to constantly change bank accounts. As a result, I ...
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(no) Fun with Banks
positech.co.uk - 7 days ago
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One of the arguments against expansion packs for
games is that they ’split the community’ It’s a...
real fear, and it’s one that Company Of Heroes solved cunningly by patching the content for everyone, but only letting purchasers play with those units. That might work for ...
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Challenges and Mods and Expansions
positech.co.uk - 8 days ago
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I’ve been play testing a bunch of battles
today. It’s scary how many times you need to...
play a scenario to even be sure it poses a proper challenge. I think I’m maybe half way there, in terms of the two extra maps. When I make the scenarios, I try to put together a fleet that ...
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Testing new stuff…
positech.co.uk - 10 days ago
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There will be an expansion pack for GSB,
and it’s still a little way off, but I...
did some work on it today so it’s fresh in my mind. Before I release it, there will be another mainstream GSB patch, mainly to improve the modding support to ...
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Expansion pack underway
positech.co.uk - 12 days ago
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Eventually there will be an expansion pack for
GSB. I have the mental plans for at least...
2 major add-ons for the game, plus tons of little cool things that need to be improved and added, time and sales permitting. I’m currently working 50/50 on ...
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The Cellar of Death and Expansion packs
We moved house recently. I shall entertain with pictures of its quirky bits at some point (the house was built in 1750). Right now, my opinions of the house is ‘cold’. However, even though most of our life is in boxes and the shower (if you can call it that) onyl has cold water and ...
Gaming
I’ve been watching big battleships shoot each other. It’s what I do for a job. cool huh? The interesting bit is that despite doing a future-tech sci-fi war game, I find that the images and footage that is most appropriate is WW2. There is a darned good reason that so many good games ...
Gaming
Here is the latest new feature heading for Gratuitous Space Battles:
Variable Squadron sizes, from 1 fighter up to 16.
In theory this means you could add 16 fighters and give each one different orders!, as 16 different units In practice I suspect it will be used to deploy smaller ...
Gaming
So it finally worked. I have moved to the country. Ooh-arr etc. To my delight the internet works! (at 1.8MB right now, but I’m assured my IP Profile will go up to 5 one day). To my dread, the lan connection to my desktop PC was borked until an hour ago. Cue lots of stress, involving many ...
Gaming
I’m moving house tomorrow, several hundred miles. If I don’t blog or reply to emails, then it’s all gone wrong and I’m without a net connection for a few days. Hopefully that won’t happen.
In any case, in 11 hours time, I’m going to have two cats in two ...
Gaming
I’m moving house Monday. Good timing eh? Actually not. It comes between the launch of GSB, my birthday and another thing…
Anyway, I’ve lived here ten years, and it’s time to empty the attic. Stuff that got put in the attic got put there because it was irrelevant ten ...
Gaming
Take a trip far back in time when dinosaurs ruled the earth and Directx 5 was the very latest cutting edge thing. Back then, the hip cool and trendy thing to do with mouse input was to use direct input. I have a pile of programming books on how to do it, and you can enjoy the handy tutorials on ...
Gaming
This morning I officially declared Gratuitous Space Battles released, which means there is finally a demo, the price is up a little bit, and people can review it or try it without worrying that the current version is not representative. This game has been about a year in the making, and taken a ...
