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Gratuitous Shooty Game is a hobby space shooter made by the developer of Gratuitous Space Battles, reusing the art from that game :D.

This game is just a simple space shooty game where you use the left and right arrow keys to control your ship, and the spacebar to fire. Ever-more deadly waves of alien ships attack you in a suspiciously slow and predictable pattern, enabling your single spaceship to somehow overcome incredible odds and defeat all of them, given enough skill.

Watch out for bonuses that drop from alien ships, especially those cheeky ones that fly across the top of the screen.

At the end of each battle, your level score becomes a cash bonus, but you are penalized for every alien ship that flies off screen intact. Think of this as you paying reparations to the relatives of those whose houses are blown up by those pesky aliens who got away.

After each level you get to upgrade your ship using your bonus cash. Invest in better shields, better lasers, faster thrusters to move your ship, or a better rate of fire.

For budgetary reasons, your planet only has a budget for a limited number of ships, and for reasons that are unclear, only one can be launched at a time. If you run out of ships, you fail. Sadface.

Technical stuff: Windows only, because meh. Fixed resolution of 1920x1080. I'll support other resolutions properly at some point. There may be bugs.

There will be bugs.

PrintScreen saves a screenshot to \my documents\my games etc.

Purchase

Buy Now$3.00 USD or more

In order to download this game you must purchase it at or above the minimum price of $3 USD. You will get access to the following files:

GSSGInstaller.exe 63 MB

Development log

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Hey cliff, good to see that GSB is alive and well.

Id like to bring to your attention the campaign from the original Gratuitous Space Battles game, and why right now it's in an unplayable state. The deployments aren't handled correctly anymore, and we always fight the same formation no matter what we do. It would be awesome if the mode got formations from a folder, in an offline format. I think it would be the easiest fix

Not to complain, but it is a product we paid for that is currently broken. We would really appreciate your response on this matter over there! :]

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I'm looking into it but I think its actually a server problem :( something to do with php versions, which is super annoying because changing the php version might break other stuff. It runs on a super old version of php, which is apparently security vulnerable.

Hopefully I can work out what it is. I cant actually find the client source code right now, which is a bit of a disaster, so I'm hoping to fix it server side.

This space game was actually written ground-up from scratch, without the GSB source...

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i know it's a super old game but man conquest was so fun and I am craving to play it if it gets fixes. Loving the look of shooty as well!

Yes +100 to this! I cant believe there's someone who still plays the old game! its a diamond in the rough for sure

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Cliff, I beat your game so there

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But under a million score?  Do better :D.

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What’s your record? That will be my goal!

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Hey is this an early release or would you consider this 1.0?

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I'd say its version 1.0. Its playable and pretty balanced. I might update it later though!

Perfect! How can I request a key for coverage? 

email me at cliff@positech.co.uk!

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Looks good! If at some point, you fancy making a Linux build you can have my money :-)

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[Searches for a like button to click. Can't find one, but clicks it anyway]

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Well lookit what we have here.