Jammin Games - Gunship Origins

Game design note for Gunship Origins. (NOTE: very WIP, and the designer hasn’t gotten to this hastily built UI yet, so expect it to change for the better.) When you get promoted to 2nd Lt, you go through officer training (not done yet) and then are able to start campaigns, which are essentially a tug of war between the two factions over territory. (Gunship 2000 also had this same flow.) You can fly missions of various types over this campaign, and there’s a calendar showing the results per day, weather, a campaign map with various sectors, primary and secondary, and more. Behind the scenes, even more is happening. Each one of these friendly and enemy units is generally a platoon-sized group of vehicles (or infantry, etc when we get to that). The vehicles are persistent. They might travel around a bit from mission to mission, but they are the same vehicles with the same characters as operators. The enemy and friendly forces will bring up reinforcements from their respective rears, and these travel in convoys to get to the front. If you go behind enemy lines, you will often encounter these convoys, and blowing them up will help your side. But your best bet is to focus on the objectives. The primary and secondary are your main objectives and destroying them has a relatively larger impact on the campaign. This is because they tend to be key to the enemy’s supply lines, offensive pushes, command and control, etc. This is generally speaking not “gamed” so much as carefully tuned. (There is some gaming of the system involved, but I keep it to a minimum.) For example, taking out a headquarters means the enemy has to bring up another HQ, and can’t coordinate offensive pushes. This means there won’t be any loss of territory that day or perhaps for several, until the new HQ is situated. Taking out an air defense site means your friendly air strikes will get through and do strategically and tactically important strikes. I have about 10 more tweets worth of info about just this tiny screenshot here, and even then, I’m leaving A LOT out of it. 😅 Wishlist Gunship Origins, like & retweet, and send to a friend!