
New video at last
Cliffski's Blog —
I bought some proper editing software for videos (Sony Vegas Movie studio only £40) and spent all of today learning it and getting this made:
Let me know what you think so far.
Cheers! ...
Space! Battles! Gratuitousness!
Rock, Paper, Shotgun —
Space! Battles! Gratuitousness! Written by Alec Meer on July 4, 2009 at 12:18 am. [image] In space, no-one can hear you be gratuitous. Space is gratuitous. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly gratuitous it is. Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the Starship Gratuitous. Ack, it’s no good. I just can’t decide which stereotypical sci-fi quote to tiresomely rip-off. Instead, just watch this video of Cliffski ‘Gets A Bit Feisty’ Harris’ new’un . BOOM. A pretty apt demonstration of the hard split between scheming and smashing, no? Also: I can’t help but dig the John Williams-esque score. Very much looking ...
GSB: New Gameplay Video
TIGSource —
Here’s a new preview trailer of Positech’s upcoming strategy game, Gratuitous Space Battles. Man, this looks so beautiful. But I can’t help but feel like the opening tagline, “Imagine tower-defense with space fleets,” is doing a bit of ...
Gratuitous Space Battles Movie
Blue's News —
A new movie from Gratuitous Space Battles shows off Positech's science-fiction strategy game that's planned for release sometime this year. The clip is available on the YouTube , and here is a refresher on the game: "Gratuitous Space Battles may look like an RTS game, but it's design is closer to 'tower-defense' than a conventional RTS. The player designs his ships from modules, arranges them into fleets, and deploys them (complete with some AI-orders) and then watches them fight against enemy AI fleets. Although the battles themselves do not allow direct control over the ships, there is an element of multiplayer to the game. Players can upload a ...
New video gets "Gratuitous" in its "Space Battles"
Big Download Blog —
Filed under: Action, Trailers, Strategy It's not like we haven't see space-based action-strategy games before; we have. But there's something about a game that calls itself "Gratuitous Space Battles" that makes us sit up, take notice and (hopefully) want to play the game. A new YouTube video showing off gameplay from the title certainly did that for us. The game is the newest from indie game developer Positech Games, which is basically one guy, a UK bloke named Cliff Harris who has created quite a few cult hit titles on his own. Yet this new game is ...
Cliffski Talks Gratuitous Space Battles
Rock, Paper, Shotgun —
Earlier today we talked to Positech’s Cliff “Cliffski” Harris about his new game, Gratuitous Space Battles. There was also some discussion of a Saddam Hussein sim, the pitfalls of outsourced indie art, and the problems of small-playerbase multiplayer.
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