I have actually still been working on my game all this time, but have been a bit distracted with some technical stuff, and life diversions, and also not feeling there was much of a visual change to show off, but enough is enough, and I thought I’d just quickly throw together a short 2 minute campaign battle video to show you the current state of the game.
For those new to this blog, Ridiculous Space Battles is my ‘spiritual successor’ to ‘Gratuitous Space Battles’ which I made around 2011. I’ve really enjoyed working on it, and I think its better in every way. Here is the video of a battle I quickly filmed and slung onto youtube:
The thing some people do *not* like, is that ships fight in fixed formations, basically in ‘lanes’, and some people who loved GSB dislike this change. Personally I find it to be vastly *better* and makes the battles feel more cinematic and more like an old school naval battle, than the ‘random scrum’ that many large-scale battle games descend into.
I should point out this is battle #4 in the campaign, using a mixture of ships that survived the previous battles, and some reinforcements. Its a fairly small battle. I am not sure I am happy with the contrast of the background nebula, but obviously this is a work in progress. Anyway, I’m quite proud of the general space laser mayhem :D. If you are interested in the game, you should add it to your wish-list on steam using the link below. It will also hopefully make it to GoG. But not epic or other stores. And only on PC. Fuck apple :D.