Gratuitous Tank Battles Announced
"The year is 2114 AD and the Great War continues into its two hundredth year. Victory is in our sights though, and we expect it will all be over by Christmas 2114"
Positech Games, indie UK developers behind Democracy, Kudos and Gratuitous Space Battles are patriotically proud to announce the battle plans for the release of 'Gratuitous Tank Battles'
Gratuitous Tank Battles is an RTS/Tower Defense hybrid with online elements and customisable units. The player can take the role of the defender or the attacker in a series of top-down explodey fun. A built-in map editor will allow easy sharing of custom maps and defensive challenges with other GTB players in a similar fashion to GSB's challenge system.
GTB takes place in an alternate reality where the 'central powers' never surrender and the 'great war' continues for two hundred years. Soldiers still fight in the trenches of the Somme, although rifles have (mostly) become laser rifles and giant armored mechs stride across no-mans land. The two great armies continue to fight with patriotic zeal and little memory of who Franz Ferdinand was and what happened to him. One thing is certain: It will all be over by Christmas 2114.
GTB is currently under development for PC and Mac with an expected D-Day sometime before Christmas 2011. Press and publishing enquiries should be directed to cliff@positech.co.uk
Hi-res screenshots and logos can be downloaded here:
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Positech Games is the UK indie studio owned and run by Cliff 'cliffski' Harris. Cliff has been programming games since 1981, and worked in the past for Elixir and Lionhead. He writes about indie game development at www.cliffski.com and also owns and runs the indie games database site at www.showmethegames.com. Previous games by Positech incldue the life-sim 'Kudos', the politics sim 'Democracy' and of course 'Gratuitous Space Battles'. The Positech Games website is at: www.positech.co.uk
Gratuitous Tank Battles is an RTS/Tower Defense hybrid with online elements and customisable units. The player can take the role of the defender or the attacker in a series of top-down explodey fun. A built-in map editor will allow easy sharing of custom maps and defensive challenges with other GTB players in a similar fashion to GSB's challenge system.
GTB takes place in an alternate reality where the 'central powers' never surrender and the 'great war' continues for two hundred years. Soldiers still fight in the trenches of the Somme, although rifles have (mostly) become laser rifles and giant armored mechs stride across no-mans land. The two great armies continue to fight with patriotic zeal and little memory of who Franz Ferdinand was and what happened to him. One thing is certain: It will all be over by Christmas 2114.
GTB is currently under development for PC and Mac with an expected D-Day sometime before Christmas 2011. Press and publishing enquiries should be directed to cliff@positech.co.uk
Hi-res screenshots and logos can be downloaded here:
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Positech Games is the UK indie studio owned and run by Cliff 'cliffski' Harris. Cliff has been programming games since 1981, and worked in the past for Elixir and Lionhead. He writes about indie game development at www.cliffski.com and also owns and runs the indie games database site at www.showmethegames.com. Previous games by Positech incldue the life-sim 'Kudos', the politics sim 'Democracy' and of course 'Gratuitous Space Battles'. The Positech Games website is at: www.positech.co.uk
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Positech