{"id":7081,"date":"2026-07-05T12:37:02","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T11:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/?p=7081"},"modified":"2026-07-05T12:37:02","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T11:37:02","slug":"new-battle-video-from-ridiculous-space-battles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/2026\/07\/05\/new-battle-video-from-ridiculous-space-battles\/","title":{"rendered":"New battle video from Ridiculous Space Battles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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&#8217;d just quickly throw together a short 2 minute campaign battle video to show you the current state of the game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For those new to this blog, Ridiculous Space Battles is my &#8216;spiritual successor&#8217; to &#8216;Gratuitous Space Battles&#8217; which I made around 2011. I&#8217;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:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ridiculous Space Battles Campaign Battle\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zYedFhfA4cc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The thing some people do *not* like, is that ships fight in fixed formations, basically in &#8216;lanes&#8217;, 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 &#8216;random scrum&#8217; that many large-scale battle games descend into.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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&#8217;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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/widget\/3607230\/\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"646\" height=\"190\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;d just quickly throw together a short 2 minute<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-right\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Continue Reading&#8230; New battle video from Ridiculous Space Battles<\/span><a class=\"btn btn-secondary continue-reading\" href=\"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/2026\/07\/05\/new-battle-video-from-ridiculous-space-battles\/\">Continue Reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gratuitous-space-battles","category-ridiculousspacebattles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7081","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=7081"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7082,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7081\/revisions\/7082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}