With regards to Gratuitous Tank Battles, which is my first ever tower defense game, I probably overdid it a bit in terms of trying to innovate. You really need to have an answer to that question. It’s worth remembering, as a game designers, that the player will always be asking themselves ‘why do I need to play this, when I can just go play the classic tower defense game X’. I might be lucky, in that I always have an urge to put some sort of ‘spin’ on any game I make, i am never happy to just do ‘a game in this genre’ and leave it at that.
I recently spent some time looking at a bunch of tower defense games, and it saddened me to see how little innovation most people attempt in that genre, although I guess that is something pretty generally applicable to all genres, and most peoples first game.
Press types may want to grab the presskit, with screenshots from here. Also, if you think it looks good, then please tweet about it, or link to it on facebook, or whatever cool and hip web forums you hipsters visit. Let me know what you think in the comments. Or wait a little while and it will be up on steam, and no doubt some other portals soon. You can see some groovy screenshots and other promotional happenings here. As before, obviously you get to take the role of attacker or defender, and we have included both American and German AI attacking armies for you to play against, if you prefer the predictability of scripted attackers.Įnjoy! and for those who are gripped by a sudden urge to buy it immediately, you can grab it direct from positech here.
You can play them as completely straight WW2 style battles.
Something new and different about these maps is that the first four are locked to the 1914-1945 technology era, meaning no lasers, no shields, no mechs. The new maps also come with new textures and props for use in your own custom scenarios. There are also eight new maps to battle over, in a completely new singleplayer campaign (there is a new screen which lets you select the ‘classic’ campaign or this one. This is a World War 2 themed expansion for the game that adds a whole bunch of classic WW2 tanks such as the Tiger and the Sherman. OK, here it is at last, I’m happy to announce the release of an expansion pack for Gratuitous Tank Battles we call ‘ The Western Front‘.
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