Positech Games (me!) is/are happy to announce the shameless release of a gratuitous expansion pack:

THE TRIBE

The tribe are a race of galactic pacifists and hippies, hoping to live a dreamlike 'chillaxed' existence between the stars. Depressed and generally given 'bad vibes' by the existence of constant stellar war, they have decided to bring peace to the galaxy by the simple, clean and somewhat ironic route of total eradication of all other life forms.


The tribe is an expansion pack for our indie strategy game 'Gratuitous Space Battles' for the PC. The pack adds an extra playable race to the game, complete with shiny new spaceships to blast apart in gratuitous slow motion. As well as new ship hulls, the game adds two new missions and a scattering of new tribe-specific modules to reflect their emphasis on 'strong hulls and weak shields'. It also introduces the first use of kinetic weapons.


The expansion pack can be installed by anyone with a full copy of the game (and the latest version at that), regardless of whether they bought it direct from the developer (Positech) or from one of those new-fangled 'digital distribution' websites that we hear are all the rage.
There are screenshots and even 'video' on the tribe page here:

http://www.positech.co.uk/gratuitousspacebattles/tribe.html

The existence of this pack in no way suggests that the core game (GSB) is not still undergoing constant improvement. There is a bunch of gratuitous new features in the pipeline, such as supply limits, and no doubt lots of even cooler stuff.


Positech Games is a Wiltshire, UK based indie developer consisting of one overworked geek and his two cats. (www.positech.co.uk)


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