Game Design, Programming and running a one-man games business…

Laughing at activision…

Posted on June 18, 2010

Check out this page:

http://www.gamasutra.com/

If you are lucky you will see a banner advert for infinity ward. Apparently they are ‘the studio behind call of duty’ and apparently they are ‘hiring’.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

I wonder why?

Maybe if you treat your staff better, your human resources dept wouldnt need to be working overtime?

Gratuitous Space Bargain

Posted on June 16, 2010

So after getting feedback on what people didn’t like about GSB that prevented some sales, I decided to offer a ‘collectors edition’ of the game that has all 3 expansions in with it, for $25.95. Thats much cheaper than buying them seperately, by a huge chunk. Also, it’s just one installer that blaps everything in the right place, no so more confusion over install paths (yay!)

It’s for sale at that price now on my site:

http://www.positech.co.uk/gratuitousspacebattles/register.html

Look, theres a picture of boxes and everything! (actual game does NOT come in a box. Who needs boxes these days?). Obviously I’m a completely rational ferengi, so if this means revenue actually falls, I’ll probably put it back as it was.

Sales are pretty slow these days, I’m assuming thats E3 sucking in all the attention. I am not paying much attention to it, but I predict lost of new controllers based on waving your arms around, and some games involving butch space marines kicking butt. With bump maps.

Jewellery and Vegetables and Patch 1.41

Posted on June 14, 2010

Some minor updates:

  • Gratuitous Patch 1.41 is live. It has all those usability improvements. I hope you like it. It should autoupdate over the next 24 hours for everyone.
  • I spent part of today uploading the patch, part of it working on UI improvements to the eventual campaign game, and part of it digging over a vegetable plot. If there ever is a zombie apocalypse or a financial meltdown, I’m not sure I can hack going back to living off the land. It seems like far too much hard work just to grow a fairly pitiful amount of potatoes and other vegetables. However, these days it seems to be one of the few ways left to ensure you know what the hell is in your food. Plus it gives my muscles a slight workout and prevents me becomign a completely feeble office geek who can’t open jars.
  • Heres something you don’t see every day. Jewellery, gold-plated no-less, made from the 3D models of GSB swarm cruisers.

Oh yes…

Better ship design loader

Posted on June 12, 2010

I’m becoming a bit of a workaholic here. Anyway, lots of people wanted this: (click to enlarge)

Sortable by those top columns. Will be in patch 1.41 very soon. Was a right pain to do, because my generic file picker code doesn’t support multiple items of data per entry, or suitable sorting code, so it had to be specifically coded for this UI element. Still, only took a morning.