{"id":6853,"date":"2025-04-29T17:59:44","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T16:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/?p=6853"},"modified":"2025-04-29T17:59:44","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T16:59:44","slug":"announcing-ridiculous-space-battles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/2025\/04\/29\/announcing-ridiculous-space-battles\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing Ridiculous Space Battles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

So yup… I’m announcing a new game. I don’t say that often these days! For the last eighteenish months I’ve been working on a project as a hobby that turned into a serious hobby that then turned into a full time thing, and has now become an actual game that will be released on steam this year (into Early Access anyway), called Ridiculous Space Battles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If that name sounds familiar, its because 15 years ago I was the guy who made ‘Gratuitous Space Battles<\/a>‘. At the time, there was no other game like it, and now its become a whole genre called ‘autobattlers’. Yup, that was me. I don’t bang on about it as much as I should frankly. But anyway, I made GSB 15 years ago, and a bunch of expansions. A few years later I made GSB2, which was a bit of a flop by comparison. It had bugs for some players, and I got annoyed about it, and really decided to just switch genres and make more political strategy games, publish other people’s games, and also make Production Line: Car factory simulation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then at some point I started building a Solar Farm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But WE ARE SO BACK. I have had enormous fun making this game, and I have so much to say about it. I want to write blog posts, post on social media, etc, and I have been waiting until I was ready to announce it with some nice screenshots like this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And this<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The way I am developing the game is a bit mad, and worthy of a proper long blog post, but for now, I will just leave it that there is a basic website up here<\/a>, and you can see the game’s steam page (and wishlist it!) on steam here<\/a>. Also if you are on social media,. any retweets or posts or likes are welcome on this post on bluesky<\/a> and this one on X<\/a>. Thanks!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More updates coming really soon :D.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So yup… I’m announcing a new game. I don’t say that often these days! For the last eighteenish months I’ve been working on a project as a hobby that turned into a serious hobby that then turned into a full time thing, and has now become an actual game that will be released on steam<\/p>\n

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