REDSHIRT Dev Blog...
So, Cliff asked me to blog my thoughts on developing Redshirt so far. My response as I sat down to try write this was "Gosh, where do I start in talking about this massive project that has been my life since last summer? After all, I'd been a videogames PhD researcher, and I'd worked on smaller things before (as well as bigger, non-gamesy things), but Redshirt is my first proper commercial game project. Its origin lies in an idea I'd had - social networks govern the daily lives of so many of us now, and give rise to their own set of micropolitics and behavioural quirks, so why not make a simulation game about that? I briefly talked about the story of pitching the game to Positech in my first dev video, and how it evolved into Redshirt, so I won't go into that here, but, as of 15th June 2011, I put cursor to code. ...
GRATUITOUS TANK BATTLES IN BETA
Gratuitous Tank Battles is the new strategy/RTS/sim/Tower-defense game from the makers of 'Gratuitous Space Battles'. GTB lets you play a conventional tower defense role, or lets you play as the attacker, all with customised units you design yourself from unlockable components. An integrated map editor and online map-sharing/challenges makes for a virtually endless game, plus you can play not only against conventional scripted AI enemies AND against adapative and unpredictable AI, but you can also save out your own attacks to play against them as defender. ...
REDSHIRT Announced
Redshirt is the comedy sci-fi sim about social networking aboard a space station, starring the station's most ambitious low-ranking peon: you! Navigate the professional and interpersonal politics of the ubiquitous "Spacebook" to curry favor among friends and colleagues. Whether you're looking for love, opportunities for promotion, or even a chance to play Zero-G golf with the captain, you can schmooze your way through social circles and claw your way up the career ladder. Perhaps you too can finally achieve the dream of an off-station transfer, or even the Redshirt's opportunity of a lifetime: being sent on an away-mission! ...
DROD: Gunthro and the Epic Blunder
Genre:
Puzzle / RPG
About the Game
This is a prequel to the puzzle game "DROD: Journey to Rooted Hold". It requires thinking and a Really Big Sword to defeat all the monsters and clear each hand-crafted room. Fight with Gunthro Budkin, an ancestor to Beethro Budkin, in an epic clash between the nations of Rasarus and Tueno. Join Gunthro as he fights for Rasarun honor and attempts to uncover the sinister plot that has plunged his nation into war. There are a host of glorious new characters, puzzles and game elements in this latest installment to the classic DROD puzzle franchise.
Gratuitous Tank Battles
Genre:
strategy
About the Game
Gratuitous tank battles is a unique hybrid of sim/management/tower defense and RTS. You can play a traditional tower defense role, or as the attacker, and the game features both traditional scripted enemies as well as entirely adaptive AI opponents in both roles. You can save out your attack to play against as defense, and the games units (both as attacker and defender) and entirely customizable by the player. An integrated map editor, combined with online challenge system and map-sharing means an infinite supply of battlefields. WW1 continues to rage in 2114, and only your army of Tanks, Soldiers and Mechs can win the day. Tally Ho!
A Sirius Game
Genre:
RPG
About the Game
Seriously, how many games have bored you with a happily-ever-after ending? Not anymore! Now you can play the role of the bad guy with bad intentions!A Sirius Game is 3D, action-adventure game with RPG elements. It requires the player’s ship to escort other merchant ships to different ports unharmed by the pirates and also trade different items for money.
Scoregasm
Genre:
action / strategy
About the Game
Scoregasm is an incredible, variety rich shoot-em-up with a non-linear, branching paths style galaxy to explore. It¹s pretty, accessible, fun and really rather good! Blast your way through the galaxy¹s many varied levels! Use your skills to change your route, find new levels, new enemies, unlock bonus challenge stages and fight the bosses to discover multiple endings!
Hegemony Gold: Wars of Ancient Greece
Genre:
Strategy
About the Game
Conquer the ancient Greek world! Experience the full range of warfare from reconnaissance and raids to field battles and mountain blockades as you campaign across a continuous map of ancient Greece. Siege and starve your enemy by cutting their supply lines or burning their crops, all the while building and protecting your own supply network to support your growing kingdom. Play as Macedonia, Athens, or Sparta in the three historical campaigns, or choose one of the 26 factions in the epic sandbox mode and forge your own empire. With a dynamic new diplomacy system and greatly expanded tactics, Hegemony Gold sets the new standard for ancient warfare.
Democracy 2
Genre:
strategy
About the Game
Have you ever wanted to be president? or prime-minister? Convinced you could do a better job of running the country? Democracy 2 is the ultimate political strategy / simulation game. The game simulates the motivations, loyalties and desires of everyone in the country. As president or prime minister, it's your job to balance the need for income from taxes against the demands of the voters. Do you want your country to be an eco-friendly green paradise? or a capitalist utopia? Will you pander to the patriots, the liberals or the religious pressure groups? Can you keep crime under control without destroying the civil liberties of your citizens?
Crayon Physics Deluxe
Genre:
Puzzle
About the Game
Crayon Physics Deluxe is a 2D physics puzzle / sandbox game, in which you get to experience what it would be like if your drawings would be magically transformed into real physical objects. Solve puzzles with your artistic vision and creative use of physics. Crayon Physics Deluxe won the Independent Games Festival Grand Prize in 2008.
Mad Skills Motocross
Genre:
Arcade Racing
About the Game
A fast-paced motocross action game with hilarious power-ups. You have never felt a game quite like this, it must be seen in motion. To master Mad Skills Motocross is very hard, but having fun with it is easy. Do a huge jump, land on your rear wheel - full throttle, fire the nitro, leave your opponent in a spray of dirt.
Wheelies, stoppies, nitro, rocket boots, backflips, frontflips and much more.
Eufloria
Genre:
Ambient Strategy and Exploration
About the Game
Welcome to Eufloria an addictive ambient game of space exploration and conquest, plant growth and bio mechanical evolution.Explore a beautifully realized universe rendered in a style that is unique and compelling, reminiscent of children’s books like the little prince.Conquer asteroids in deep space and use their resources to literally grow and nurture semi-organic plants and creatures to do your bidding. Discover the secrets of the mysterious Growers!Play against AI opponents that all vie for the same resources and offer fierce opposition.Eufloria was made by a small indie team and offers a game experience unlike any other.
Gratuitous Space Battles
Genre:
Strategy / Management
About the Game
Gratuitous Space Battles is a unique hybrid of traditional RTS and tower defense. Ever wanted to control your own vast fleet of laser battleships and pit them against player-designed enemies? GSB puts you in the position of fleet commander. Your job is to design your own space warships from custom components, assemble fleets and deploy formations before battle, then watch your fleet thunder to victory or get blown apart in aesthetically pleasing fireballs of plasma. Includes unique 'massively singleplayer' online challenge system.
Revenge Of The Titans
Genre:
Strategy / Arcade
About the Game
At first they came from the skies, and we repelled them with hired spaceships on a shoestring budget! Now they are back, and sending their ground troops to destroy our bases. And we still have no money! Quickly assemble a defensive position using blaster turrets, upgrades, tiny battledroids, barricades, mines, tangleweb, whilst obtaining the necessary funds by mining nearby resources as the relentless march of the Titans approaches the base. Research new technology and buildings as you defend the Earth bases throughout the solar system from the Titan onslaught.
Artemis Spaceship Bridge Simulator
Genre:
Strategy / Action
About the Game
Turn your own living room into the bridge of your favorite starship! Artemis simulates a spaceship bridge by networking several computers together. One computer runs the simulation and the "main screen", while the others serve as workstations for the normal jobs a bridge officer might do, like Helm, Communication, Engineering, and Weapon Control. Artemis is a social game where several players are together in one room ("bridge") , and while they all work together, one player plays the Captain, a person who sits in the middle, doesn't have a workstation, and tells everyone what to do. Artemis is for Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7.
AVSEQ
Genre:
Puzzle
About the Game
AVSEQ is a fascinating generative musical system based on a fast-paced abstract action challenge! Create long chains of like-coloured falling atoms to unlock sounds across the musical sequencers that underlie each level, and have a unique musical experience every time. AVSEQ contains ten levels of increasing difficulty, along with infinite play modes that allow you to unlock an astonishing combination of electronic music. Each AVSEQ level has 2.2300745198530623×10^43 possible audio permutations, thats 22 tredecillion in total. No,honestly, thats a real number, we looked it up.
Loren
Genre:
RPG
About the Game
Queen Karen has disappeared! Join the Amazon Princess Loren in her journey to find what happened to her mother.Play as Saren or Elenor, fight monsters, discover new places, find romance and defeat the evil Fost!Featuring old school battle system, over 500 unique items, over 100 different enemies, characters with customizable skill trees and romance option.
Frayed Knights: The Skull of S'makh-Daon
Genre:
RPG
About the Game
A 3D RPG in the old school tradition, but with its tongue planted firmly in its cheek, Frayed Knights: The Skull of S'makh-Daon features turn-based combat, tons of spells, items, and skill, and a party of four misfit, snarky adventurers. As seasoned heroes and veteran adventurers fall to an unknown, rising evil, perhaps this bunch of losers - called "The Frayed Knights" (but never to their faces) - might just be the heroes the world really needs: The wrong people at the wrong time.
Castle Vox
Genre:
Turn-Based Strategy
About the Game
Castle Vox is a fast world domination game. Gameplay combines elements from Diplomacy, Chess, Risk and Axis & Allies. Battle on maps ranging from Ancient Rome to the Hundred Years War to World War 2 to Iran-Iraq. Simultaneous turns means no waiting for other players. Challenging single player AI as well as multi-player modes. Download for free now!
Numen: Contest of Heroes
Genre:
RPG
About the Game
In Numen, you control one of nine heroes, who in the name of the gods they follow compete in a grand test of their capabilities. Your hero will undertake a pilgrimage over the highest mountains, through valleys and deep forests, underground vaults and the scorched sand of deserts. Numen offers you the possibility of tactical decision making, searching for enemies' weak spots and selection of adequate weapons. It rewards those heroes who are able to adapt to the changing situation on the battlefield
Smugglers IV
Genre:
Strategy / Space trading game
About the Game
Smugglers 4 - Doomsday - is a turn-based science-fiction space-trading game. You have the option to be a greedy trader, an ambitious bounty hunter, a ruthless pirate, or a multitude of the many professions that the game has to offer. Through trading, fulfilling missions, or pirating, you earn the money and skills necessary to buy new ships and upgrade your equipment. Additionally, you'll have to manage a crew, board & plunder enemy ships, and even conquer star systems.
AVSEQ
Genre:
Puzzle
About the Game
AVSEQ is a fascinating generative musical system based on a fast-paced abstract action challenge! Create long chains of like-coloured falling atoms to unlock sounds across the musical sequencers that underlie each level, and have a unique musical experience every time. AVSEQ contains ten levels of increasing difficulty, along with infinite play modes that allow you to unlock an astonishing combination of electronic music. Each AVSEQ level has 2.2300745198530623×10^43 possible audio permutations, thats 22 tredecillion in total. No,honestly, thats a real number, we looked it up.
