Tank Tactics is an implementation of the game "Tank Turn Tactics" from this GDC talk. I made it as close as possible to the game described in the talk, so I recommend watching it and learning the rules that way. For the people who don't want to do that, I have this guide for them.
| README Links | Description |
|---|---|
| Rules | The rules of the game. |
| Hosting the game | How to host and enter the game. |
The goal of the game is to be the last player standing. You achieve this by attacking others, forming alliances and outsmarting your opponents with superior group strategy.
Each player has 3 stats. They are the following:
Health (or HP) is the amount of health a player has left. Every player starts with 3 Health. You can Attack players to lower their HP. HP can not be healed. Once a player's HP drops to 0, they join the Jury and are no longer able to interact with other players.
Action points (or AP) are used to do everything in this game. Every player starts with one. You can give AP to other players. Once every in-game day, every alive player gets one more AP. You can also obtain AP through the Jury.
Range is the distance where you can't interact with players further than that distance. Every player's range starts at 2. Range can be upgraded. You can see your range as the yellow squares around you.
There are 4 actions that are able to do in the game, and they are the following:
Moving is changing your position. You are able to move one square in any direction (without the diagonals) per AP.
Attacking is reducing another player's HP. You can only attack in your range. You remove one HP from your opponent per AP used.
You can give AP to players in your range. You give 1 AP per AP.
You can upgrade your range. You increase your range by 1 for every 2 AP used.
When a player dies, they join the jury. Everyone in the jury votes every in-game day and when the vote ends, every player with 3+ votes gets one extra AP. If you don't vote, your vote will be wasted.
You can spectate. This means watching the game without being logged in.
I will assume that you have installed nodejs.
Install the project dependencies with npm install.
If your hosting provider supplies them by default, skip this step. You need to aquire two files: a private key and a certificate. If you don't know how, you can generate a self-signed certificate.
Create a .env file and config the following things. (Or enter the environment variables manually into a dashboard of some kind).
Example .env:
PORT=8080
ADMIN_PASSWORD="12345678"
USE_HTTPS=true
KEY_PATH="certs/key.pem"
CRT_PATH="certs/cert.pem"Remember to set an admin password. If there is none, the default one is "password".
The PORT variable gets used only if the server hasn't set a default PORT already.
If there isn't either, port 8080 will be used.
Put their paths in the KEY_PATH and CRT_PATH env. variables.
Remove the lines that set paths to a key and certificate and set USE_HTTPS to false
You can do that with npm start, or if you're using a platform host, it should be done automatically. Now you can play.
Once you decide that everyone who you want playing has registered, you can start the game. This can happen in 2 ways:
- Open the url
<the game url>/api/startGame?password=<the admin password> - Open the console in
<the game url>/consoleand put in the command_startGame();. Also if you want to reset the game completely, this is the command you use.
Once you do, players will start receiving AP every day at the same time you started the game.
If you want to disable the console for whatever reason, simply create a file named .disableEval in the main directory.