{"id":1380,"date":"2011-08-06T15:37:35","date_gmt":"2011-08-06T14:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/?p=1380"},"modified":"2011-08-06T15:37:35","modified_gmt":"2011-08-06T14:37:35","slug":"more-work-of-the-gratuitous-parasites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/2011\/08\/06\/more-work-of-the-gratuitous-parasites\/","title":{"rendered":"More work of the gratuitous parasites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I did a little bit of work this morning on the parasites, the GSB race I&#8217;m working on in my spare time (ha!).<\/p>\n<p>I added two new weapons today. One is just a tweak, it&#8217;s\u00a0 a plasma launcher that fires lots of small plasma torpedoes rather than big ones. The plasma torp is balanced as a weapon that isn&#8217;t colossally effective, but it is able to damage both shields and armor. It now has a rapid-firing version (parasites only).<\/p>\n<p>I also added a &#8216;return-to-sender&#8217; version of the guidance scrambler beam. This doesn&#8217;t scramble enemy missiles, but reverses them, so that they fly back and destroy the person who launched them. often there won&#8217;t be fuel for that, and I&#8217;m considering making it also reset their fuel. The beam is a one shot deal, you can&#8217;t reverse a reversed-missile.<\/p>\n<p>All the ship hulls are done, it&#8217;s just balancing and code now. here is another screenshot of some cruisers:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/screenshot_06-08-2011_14-52-44.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1381\" title=\"screenshot_06-08-2011_14-52-44\" src=\"http:\/\/positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/screenshot_06-08-2011_14-52-44.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/screenshot_06-08-2011_14-52-44.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/screenshot_06-08-2011_14-52-44-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m also working on gameplay and GUI for Gratutious Tank Battles. The GTB UI mockups look incredible, it&#8217;s just a looooong slow process of translating them into working code.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I did a little bit of work this morning on the parasites, the GSB race I&#8217;m working on in my spare time (ha!). I added two new weapons today. One is just a tweak, it&#8217;s\u00a0 a plasma launcher that fires lots of small plasma torpedoes rather than big ones. The plasma torp is balanced as<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-right\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Continue Reading&#8230; More work of the gratuitous parasites<\/span><a class=\"btn btn-secondary continue-reading\" href=\"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/2011\/08\/06\/more-work-of-the-gratuitous-parasites\/\">Continue Reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gratuitous-space-battles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1380"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1382,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380\/revisions\/1382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}