- Democracy 4 is now in Early Access! - 7 October 2020
Yes its true! after all these years, Democracy has finally returned to steam! Democracy 4 is now in Early Access, and your people are eagerly awaiting (or dreading!) your leadership! So far the game supports English-language only on PC (but more languages are coming soon), and we have the following coutrnies in need of governing: The USA! The UK! France! Germany! Canada! Democracy 4 already has steam achievements and steam workshop support, and a full modding guide is available. If you have ever found yourself getting angry in online debates about what the government should do, now is your chance to prove conclusively that you could do a better job. Its actually way harder than it sounds, especially if you think you will be able to stick to your principles AND win re-election over multiple terms... What will people think when you legalize LSD? when you double alcohol tax? when you give…
- Democracy 4 is just ONE WEEK away from Early Access - 29 September 2020
Exciting times! Not only does today mark the first Presidential election debate in the US, its just a week away from the launch into early access of our political strategy game Democracy 4. If you want to try your hand at implementing Universal Basic Income, or maybe you want to ban teaching evolution in schools, perhaps build a border wall, or legalize heroin, or go crazy with the money printer with some helicopter money or quantitative easing... these are all options available to you in Democracy 4. Currently the game features the USA, UK, Germany and France, and we expect to add Canada before Early Access starts, with a list of other countries coming after that as we continue to work on the game in response to player feedback. Here is the official trailer: https://youtu.be/kuJGiYC4cyg I also just added a new steam guide that explains how people can create mods for the game, which we…
- Democracy 4 is coming soon. Add to your wishlist :D - 3 September 2020
Great news fellow citizens! The latest installment in the geeky-but-popular political strategy game 'Democracy' series is coming to steam very soon, in a US election year no less. Just imagine how calm and peaceful our forums will be :D Its been 7, yes SEVEN years since the release of Democracy 3, and global politics has changed a lot. Democracy 4 takes the series into the modern age with new features like coalition governments, media reports, Quantitative Easing & Helicopter money, Fake news and Social Media. Here is the trailer: https://youtu.be/kuJGiYC4cyg Democracy 4 will be released soon on steam, so please check out the store page and add it to your wishlist to keep up to date with developments. We will be coming to early access, so will have plenty of opportunity to get feedback from players on how to best balance the game, and what cool new policies to add. Before you start typi…
- Coming soon: Design Variety Expansion pack for Production Line 🚗🚗🚗 - 15 October 2019
https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F32939922%2Fee93ec8950cf0c1bae3a9fdb67c5606b6b250e1c.png Hi there! We are releasing our second expansion to Production Line: Car Factory simulation on the 23rd October! This expansion is a cosmetic-only change to double (yes DOUBLE) the variety of car design styles in the game! You can now pick from 2 different looks for every car design in the base game (Sedan,SUV,Sports,Compact,Offroad,Pickup & Small van). Mini trailer showing the new designs: https://youtu.be/LkRcorWhNcc Here is the store page so you can add the DLC to your wishlist :D https://store.steampowered.com/app/1174730/Production_Line__Design_Variety_Pack/ Plus if you have not checked out the game for a while, please do as we have released a whole bunch of updates over the last few months that massively improve the playability, performance and stability of the g…
- Gratuitous Tank Battles creator: free-to-play “doesn’t ask you to value the game until you already feel you own it” - 13 February 2013
The concept of distributing a game for no cost, once the domain of Facebook app-clones and mobile platforms, has quickly become commonplace in PC gaming. We've all seen clear evidence of such a phenomena, from the lessened emphasis on subscription models in MMOs to the availability of quality multiplayer shooters like Tribes: Ascend from a single download. In a blog post, Positech Games head and Gratuitous Tank Battles creator Chris Harris says the psychology of free gaming boils down to letting players set their own sense of worth before asking for money. "Free to play works because it doesn’t ask you to value the game until you already feel you own it," he writes. "How much would you pay for Farmville to buy it outright? Maybe $5? But play the game for free for a month, build up your farm, invest it, and then hit a plateau in the game where you really need to buy coins to continue, an…
- New DLC Available - Gratuitous Tank Battles: The Western Front DLC - 9 November 2012
Gratuitous Tank Battles: The Western Front DLC is now available on Steam! The enemy may be on the back foot, but this war is far from over. Gratuitous Tank Battles just got bigger and better with a 'western-front' campaign, and a whole host of slightly-historically-accurate new units. A completely new singleplayer offline campaign features eight new maps, 4 are restricted to 1939-1945 technology, meaning no mechs, shields or lasers, and the other 4 maps are set in the present day. New units are drawn from the WW2 era including Tiger and Panther tanks, Calliope Sherman tanks and other American / German hardware. Admit it, all your gaming life you've wanted to field an army of tiger tanks armed with pulse lasers, and that moment is finally here! The Germans may be on the back foot, but with American armor, American enthusiasm, and the encouraging words of General Patton ringing in your ea…
- Gratuitous Tank Battles treads new ground in Western Front expansion - 22 October 2012
Positech's inspired tower defence/strategy game Gratuitous Tank Battles has just been given an expansion, which returns the tank-obsessed title to its World-Warring roots. The DLC, available for a modest £4.84, adds new American and German WWII units, plus a new single-player campaign comprising eight maps. For the unfamiliar, Gratuitous Tank Battles takes place in an alternate future where World War I never ended. We were quite big on tanks back then, and that's continued to the year 2114. The Western Front moves the action back to 1944, which means lasers are out - at least for some of the missions - and old, authentic military equipment is in. Positech's Cliff Harris elaborates: "Half the battles are set before the introduction of newer weapons such as mechs and lasers and are fought purely with the weapons of the time. The final 4 battles add modern weapons to the mix. Surely you ha…
- Gratuitous Tank Battles Expands To The Western Front - 22 October 2012
Gratuitous Tank Battles returns to the beginnings of the war that has raged for more than two centuries with The Western Front expansion . Eight new maps form the terrain for a new singleplayer campaign, the first half of which limits technology to the metal monstrosities of 1914-45, removing the lasers, mechs and shields of future times. Thankfully, the Tigers, Shermans and other tanks added to the game will find themselves embellished with the weapons of tomorrow, with the second half of the campaign allowing the use of advanced technology. The trailer details the expansion’s contents very well and The Western Front is available now for less than a fiver, with a second copy available at a 50% reduction. (more…)
- Daily Deal - Gratuitous Tank Battles, 50% off! - 4 October 2012
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- Gratuitous Tank Battles review - 12 September 2012
Gratuitous Tank Battles is the result of experimentation with the tower defence genre, yielding a strategy game where you attack as much as entrench. Experimentation with units means players can make their own machines and turn them on their foes. And experimentation with AI means the computer can use your creations against you in an endless arms race of tanks, mechs and laser-toting Tommies. Fittingly for a world where the Great War never ended, very few units will make it through: hundreds will die in a pointless bloodbath to gain just a few inches of ground. But GTB’s fields of death are thrilling to die on, over and over again. The key is asymmetry. Playing a map as the defender gives you a traditional tower defence game, where you plop down turrets and defensive forces to try to stem the incoming tide. Attacking is more like the ‘reverse’ tower defence of Anomaly: Warzone Earth – y…
- Gratuitous Tank Battles Update Released - 26 July 2012
version 1.015 ============= 1) Updated the sound library 2) Fixed a bug in division management 3) Rebalanced 2 scenarios
- Gratuitous Tank Battles Update Released - 23 July 2012
version 1.014 ============= 1) Added hint to make divisions if you have lots of units and have not created any yet. 2) Changed the way unit icons are created so they make more sense for long-barrelled guns. 3) Added new option to allow the game to auto-manage and update divisions for each type of unit. 4) Fixed bug where if you didn't restart the game, you kept unlocking the same unit. 5) Added support for colorblind mode.
- STEAM SUMMER SALE DAY EIGHT - 19 July 2012
The Steam Summer Sale continues today with huge savings throughout the store! Today's Daily Deals Include: * Witcher Franchise ; * Sniper Elite V2 ; * Krater ; * Fallout: New Vegas ; * Amnesia: The Dark Descent ; * Alan Wake Franchise ; * Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition ; * Gratuitous Tank Battles ; * Indie Bundle VIII - featuring Wings of Prey,Demolition, Inc.,Swords and Soldiers,HOARD,Sol Exodus; Don't forget to check back for a new Community Choice vote every 8 hours and new Flash sales throughout the day! You can also grab the Steam mobile app to make sure you never miss any great deals while you're on the go! Complete information on all the savings, Flash Sales, Community Choice Votes and more may be found on www.steampowered.com .
- Gratuitous Tank Battles Update Released - 27 June 2012
version 1.013 ============= 1) Dog Tags and Supply Drops now come with explanatory tooltips. 2) Deployment icons now have extra tooltip data to explain supply trucks and current stock levels. 3) Removed redundant and confusing restock-timers for supply truck icons. 4) Battle minimap now has a popup key that displays like a tooltip to explain the colors. 5) Fixed bug where the procurement achievement would trigger under the wrong circumstances 6) Dialog for loading existing designs on the design screen now also displays mini design icons and the hull name for each item. 7) Unlock system changed so that the important unlocks occur early on in the process. 8) Fixed bug where the overseas medal did not trigger as soon as it should have. 9) Armor color changed to be more orange and less red, to avoid confusion with damage. 10) Fixed bug where game hangs loading on an attacking custom map if…
- Gratuitous Tank Battles Demo Rolls Into View - 13 June 2012
Cliffski’s game of tank (and mech!) battles now has a demo, as per his strict policy of producing a demo for every game he puts out. You can pick it up from the game’s own site , or from the GTB page on Steam. The demo contains a sample of the game’s two-way tower defence action, where you can choose to build the defences, or to drop waves of soldiers and armour into the trenches of an alternate World War I. It’s worth playing the demo, because this one’s not for everyone, as Tim’s verdict concluded . Trailer below! (more…)
- Gratuitous Tank Battles Update Released - 6 June 2012
- Fixed failure to recognise modded emplacement entries. - Support for modded hulls with a larger number of modules/augs. - Double-clicking a module or augmentation on the design screen will now try to automatically place it on any free slots on the current design - Fixed bug where demolishing a unit by right clicking during deployment rendered that square unusable for the rest of the battle. - Some performance improvements for slower PCs. - Support for modded campaigns. - Fixed bug where pausing the game during deployment left the pause button out of synch. - Swapped locations of the puase and screenshot buttons. - Minimap now highlights attackers deployment points in red with a small arrow icon. - New, clearer icons for ballistic infantry modules (thanks qwepir). - If the previously selected division contains no placeable units for the current battle, the first viable division is now…
- Gratuitous Tank Battles Update Released - 1 June 2012
- Fixed some issues with corrupt uploading of challenges and removed ability to decide whether or not map is uploaded with a challenge (now handled automatically). - Balance: Small turret hulls cost reduced by 25%, Large turret hulls cost increased by 25%. - Balance: Damage from flamethrowers has been substantially boosted to 30(small) and 40(large). - Balance: Turbo launch missile system damage has been slightly reduced. - Balance: Scenario 12 (Tuchola Forest) has been made slightly harder as attacker and much harder as defender. - Fixed bug where the accuracy stats on the unit design screen did not correctly show the effects of augmentations or targeting modules. - Support added for enabling and disabling installed mods. - Fixed bug where airstrikes that had not triggered yet rolled over into the next battle. - Fixed bug where the final row of items on the emplacement picker on map ed…
- Gratuitous Tank Battles Update Released - 24 May 2012
version 1.009 ============= - Fixed crash when attempting to save out a unit that had a * in the name. - Setting windowed mode, whilst also matching your desktop resolution will result in borderless window mode now. - Game now explains to player that they won't see any challenges until they are logged in. - Online challenge browser now shows complete two-line descriptions rather than cropping them at one line. - Fixed bug where the game would hang sometimes on playing custom or online maps as defender with 'scenario units' where a small number of units was included. - Fix for occasional crash bug on saving units (in some circumstances) - Fixed bug in non-steam version where the default sample units could not be deleted from within the game. - Balance:Laser carbine cost up from 3 to 5. - Balance:Heavy Pulse laser damage up from 6 to 8 - Balance:Rapid Pulse blaster damage up from 4 to 5 -…
- Gratuitous Tank Battles Steams Up, Honest Trailer - 18 May 2012
Cliffski’s complex take on the tower-defence genre has arrived on Steam (and can still of course be purchased directly from the developer ) and that event has been celebrate with a bombastic new trailer, which you can see below. Well, I say bombastic, and that’s true of the battle bits, but it is also honest, showing you a quiet bit where Cliff is clicking through the many menus that allow you to endlessly customise the titular tank battles. Anyway, it’s out, and you can read a bit about what Tim Stone made of the game over here . (more…)
- Now Available - Gratuitous Tank Battles, 10% off! - 17 May 2012
Gratuitous Tank Battles is Now Available on Steam and 10% off until 10AM PST Thursday, May 24th. Gratuitous Tank Battles is a unique hybrid of tower-defense, strategy, simulation and RTS. Set in an alternate history timeline where World War I never ends, you are the commander of allied forces fighting right up to the year 2114, where Mechs and lasers are used alongside tanks and rifles. The war continues across Europe, with the allied commanders still locked into the optimistic patriotism of the 1900s.
