Gratuitous Space Battles Gameplay

[Punisher33100]

Impressive.

[MegaChr1sty]

thumbs up if your here for the humble bundle

[cooliodude96529]

GO LEFT GO LEFT!!! OTHER LEFT!!! GRAGH!

[jacilony]

The game " Battle Ships forever" keeps pooping up in my head.

[halorecon95]

for everyone who didnt notice, TB has the topcomment XD

[kvelas1]

god i wish this was free!!!!!

[Qwerty48121]

or.... EVE in a macro way

[Sephiko]

For 23 more hours, this is only 5 bucks on Steam.

[theuser69696969]

FYI, they are making another game called gratuitous tank battles, you will be able to design your own map

[TheBehattedOne]

What an aptly named game!

[mitre991]

Anyone know of any games like this? Where you setup the battle but don't actually have any control once the fight starts.

[PetersonZF]

@mitre991 Championship Manager? ;)

[totalwar5]

love this game

[A3319]

Makes me think of battleship forever

[7748smile]

its like star wars :D

[Yosemited]

tower defense games are boring

[zaspo]

@Yosemited this isnt tower defense, its RTS

[huibruben]

It's like, you create a puzzle for someone else to solve, if you manage to find a really tough one, and you work on it hard and long, you manage to reduce casualty rates on your side to zero and on his side to all, thén you post it online, and thén you'll sit back and count the ammound of attempts made on the challenge you posted. It's an ego trip thing, some have challenges with a 1000 attempted and only 30 victories, now tháts an ego trip! Complexity kills those, ship desighn variëty..ah..yes

[WindyXWindam]

Nice ships.

[AENIMA42069]

looks like a big 2D clusterfuck.

[MakubekuUrashima]

this looks nothing like tower deffense

[Jamaicanrunna]

Does anyone have the expansion pack?

[pheangsri]

it looks erally good, try TSG missions

[jnddepew]

Sadly 2d---it takes away so much of the strategy

[invaderzim908]

they have a 128mb demo on steam, u guys should check it out, im downloading it now. it's only $9.99 this weekend

[MakubekuUrashima]

@invaderzim908 with all DLC its only 6.24$ rite now o.o

[maestro4202]

It's prob the easiest game I've ever seen to mod for. After a few hours I can any ship I can think of easily.

[hybrinoid]

it is. :D

[ShadowShogun50]

It would be nice if you can REALLY design the ship (as in how it looks)

[oliver2555]

There is a game almost like the, Battleships Forever. It is free, and a ship maker.

[ultramonster]

there is also another game, "star trek: birth of the federation", probably more strategic and with 3 dimensional battles. still this reminds me of it.

[oliver2555]

Thanks! I will check it out.

[hybrinoid]

well, no... it's not free. but the demo is. and you really should get the full game, the current version of the game is WAAAAAAY better... but i still come back to this vid for the music. :D

[oliver2555]

I was talking about Battleships forever being free. Ah well. I will give this a try.

[bovb902]

i wanna play it please send me the download site

[hybrinoid]

dude, he's the one MAKING the game! just google Gratuitous Space Battles

[nikdudnik]

That's awesome!

I hope sysreqs will be low enough to play on intel integrated graphics witj low settings.

[robnsgv]

Do want. Reminds me of moo2 battles.

[Vladimirijus]

Great idea, not so good ship design

[kittypie070]

This comment thread reads like Fark

XD

[jordanisjackal]

That's pretty good for YouTube, then.

[Kuppamies]

woot, gotta buy this! =O

[dennya]

Scha-weeet! If you want it to be HUUUUGE, add an option for modders to create their own ships for it.

I mean, if *modders* ended up enabling the Star Trek vs. Battlestar Galactica battle, it wouldn't be YOUR fault... :)

[Stormson]

DUDE I WANNA GIVE YOU MY MONEYS

[venture6]

Awesome! Can't wait!

[jpinard]

Wow looks super fantastic!

[libelle156]

This looks excellent! Hope it has lots of customisation.

[Ondskemannen]

Looks amazing! but i would like to have the choise to play it in RTS, and/or Turn based against other players, kinda like in "Shadow Armada" or something. But anyway 2 thumbs up! :D kickass!

[Roan0388]

I am absurdly excited for this.

[chspooky]

Needs even bigger ships, which in turn leads to more guns going spazzydickshit on everything, which in turn leads to MORE EXPLOSIONS. And then it needs even more of all of that. Aside from that this looks like an absolutely perfect game.

[MadeinHell2]

:O...

AWESOME! MUST HAVE NOW!!!

[Dspr33]

I just want to swat them with.. a fly swatter.

[cammameil]

Looks like Star Trek vs the crappy Trade Federation from Star Wars

[lanceke]

0_0... AMAZING

[SirDeadpool]

amazing! really amazing!

[HythlothCoder]

I love this. This is truly incredible work! The explosions, laser effects, and artwork are fantastic, and I really like the idea!

I can't wait to play it!!

[ricefarmer]

be better if it was RTS

[Tauptu]

I just want to say Hurray.

[Llythe]

loving the name

[jacoby308]

Epic game looks epic. phasers anyone?

[Shatari]

"Imagine tower-defense with space fleets..."

Man, I hope that's not accurate. This game looks to be far more entertaining than a tower-defense clone. I'm definitely going to hold out for a demo now.

[joodude]

You did an even better job than Bob did at Bob's Game.

[Yssago]

Absolutely incredible!

[Zpock1]

I think it would be much better if the game gets a turn based strategy part instead of controlled battles.

[parthon]

Very awesome!

I'm glad we get to see some ui, and some ship construction and deployment. It's definately getting me excited. :D

[internisus]

"Making you able to control the battles would just make it like any other RTS."

Not necessarily; the degree of in-battle control could be very low in effect compared to the importance of preparative strategy. Without something more to do than watching these battles play out, my worry is that the game could become overly repetitive and devolve into trial-and-error.

I've said more about this in the Rock Paper Shotgun comments.

[vjnctn]

Great, you've made your point. The game is still in development and a lot can change; worry about repetition when it actually happens in focus testing. Speculative design is useless.

I'm excited about this game, too and I'm looking forward to seeing more...

[parthon]

Like Halibut and others have said, it would change the nature of the game. I like the idea that I get to intricately plan out battle orders to see what happens, then adjust accordingly in a new battle. This game isn't going to be for the feint of heart.

As for trial and error, I guess you could call that "Guess and not learn" behaviour. For the rest of us, we'll be trying tactics and strategies and deployments, over and over, to learn. Then challenging our friends to beat us. :)

[PuppetOfThePollution]

That's gratuitous, alright.

[St1gar]

I can only agree with TotalHalibut.

[internisus]

Now that I can see some interface stuff, I'm getting very excited about this game. However, I think it is a big mistake to have the player helplessly watch as battles play out once preparations are complete. No matter how gorgeous the game, that's a missed opportunity. It's fine to limit the types of adjustments that can be made to unit deployment, but how about on-the-fly tech research or support ship roles? In-battle narration or tactical orders? Players need more to do than watch.

[TotalHalibut]

Why? The whole point of the game is in the design and the preparation, then seeing how your plans play out as a result of that. Making you able to control the battles would just make it like any other RTS.

[bgbrendle]

I love the idea of setting up and then watching how it turns out. I REALLY hope there is a PBEM option - does the battle turn out the same every time if you set it up the same way? that would be absolutely incredible. Even if the battle turns out different everytime, this game is on my short list of next to buy.

[TotalHalibut]

Cliffy was mentioning PBEM on the rockpapershotgun comments section so I imagine that's on his list of things he's going to implement.

[torylva]

@TotalHalibut i agree, to do something unique is the way of indie games. they are pretty much the companies that comes up with new and intresting gameplays instead of just heaping up a ton of FPS or RTS that are pretty much the same in structure.