Comments on: Laser! Laser! Gratuitous Space Battles In Motion

By: shiggz

shiggz — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 01:01:35 +0000

Also if your looking for game ideas i think a lot us have unsatisfied Oregon trail fever.

By: shiggz

shiggz — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 00:59:36 +0000

I hope this is as much fun as your other game “Democracy”. I love playing through and one time giving conservatives everything they say they want and then once through and giving liberals everything they ask for. Fascinating to to just set everything and then let it run for years and watch things play out.

Speaking of “mount and blade” id love a space and apocalyptic version of that game.

By: Paganite

Paganite — Wed, 06 May 2009 05:48:33 +0000

Homeworld was the best though, you could turn off sound effects, but keep radio chatter and music on. The space battles were far more awesome when they were silent, except for the worried radio chatter.

lol at Aldo – why would I want all sound off in a game – you sound like you are making a facetious comment. Also de-voluming? what public school system produced you?

By: tifaucz

tifaucz — Tue, 05 May 2009 14:46:41 +0000

Its a Battleships Forever clone, but its looking very interesting.

By: Aldo

Aldo — Tue, 05 May 2009 09:06:16 +0000

My computer has a ‘volume’ button. It appears to some handy device for removing sound, for example in space. Perhaps this innovation could remove any issues of ‘sound in space’ through the process of de-voluming?

By: Paganite

Paganite — Tue, 05 May 2009 08:54:01 +0000

lol, some one is sad that a person on the internet doesn’t like sound in space.

By: Caiman

Caiman — Sun, 03 May 2009 06:05:13 +0000

I love the way that we automatically accept as perfectly normal anything involving Tolkien-esque creatures, massive beekcake marines lugging around several tonnes of power armour, or anthropomorphic animals flying gliders… but set a game in space and oh no! Why can we hear the sound effects? Why is it set in a 2D plane? Why do the ships blow up like fireworks? Fer pete’s sake!

By: Helm

Helm — Sun, 03 May 2009 05:09:44 +0000

If this is anything as hands-on as Sean O’Connor’s Critical Mass shareware game for windows, then I’m totally game!

By: Paganite

Paganite — Sun, 03 May 2009 01:02:10 +0000

lol, sound in space.

By: sinister agent

sinister agent — Sat, 02 May 2009 22:12:15 +0000

Hurrah! This is coming along rather well, looks to be the kind of thing you could tinker with obsessively for days on end just to see how many configurations worked.

Incidentally, did we ever get an update on Cliffski’s piracy experiment? I’d be interested to know how it went.

Uh oh, I said the BAD WORD.

By: DK

DK — Sat, 02 May 2009 16:23:57 +0000

“Hmmm – yes, this looks very much like Homeworld/Homeworld 2, however, Homeworld 2 is 6 years old and considering how the gameplay is said to be completely different from that (award-winning) game I’m a bit skeptical.”
It looks nothing like Homeworld. At all. It’s a 2D, 2-axis, pre-battle planned space combat simulator with a ship editor. Not even the visual style has anything to do with Homeworld (since this is quite clearly retro high-sci-fi, while Homeworld was semi-hard-sci-fi styled).

And for the person claming space games have to be 3-axis – I recommend you try Starfleet Command, one of the best space combat sims to date.

By: troy

troy — Sat, 02 May 2009 02:23:07 +0000

all i can say is…

send me the pre order button now !!