Tanks is a game written in Java inspired by a game of the same name on the Wii.
There are 21 unique enemies you can fight, but you can add more of your own too.
The game works in Windows, Mac or Linux.
Tanks can be found on itch.io and the iOS App Store
Use the arrow keys or WASD to move
Left click or click space to shoot
Right click or press enter to lay a mine
Press escape to pause the game
Left click to place
Right click on an object to destroy it
Right click on nothing to rotate the object you are placing
Press up and down arrow keys or scroll to cycle enemy tanks
Press left and right arrow keys to cycle enemy tank, obstacle, player tank
Press space to access the object menu
Press escape to change level settings
Press enter to play your level
The following are three screenshots of the game in action. The user controls the azure blue tank using the mouse or keyboard.
To use the game you need to install Java. For this purpose you may need
administrator privileges to install software on your machine. You can install Java
from java.com. The minimum Java version is Java 8.
You can download the jar file for Tanks. To run the jar file you can double-click on it.
To develop the game we suggest using Eclipse or IntelliJ. Eclipse can be installed from
eclipse.org. IntelliJ can be installed from
jetbrains.com
To access the source code you also need to install Git.
You will need to add the following libraries to the build path of the project:
PNGDecoder by Matthias Mann in TWL
Netty
All the jars and natives of the following LWJGL libraries:
LWJGL (core)
OpenGL
OpenAL
GLFW
Assimp
STB
Matei Budiu (Aehmttw)
Karan Gurazada
Hallowizer
Grify
...and everyone else from the Tanks Discord who helped with ideas and bugs!