Tanks is finally released to the public!

This is it! Tanks has finally been released to the public! It's been a long journey and I never thought I'd get this far.

One fateful Friday afternoon - March 23rd, 2018 - I had an extra long lunch break and decided I had enough free time to get started on an idea I had been wanting to pursue for a long time: a remake of the Tanks mini-game from Wii Play! So I got to work. I didn't know how much was ahead of me - over the next few years this game pushed me to learn a lot of stuff, including OpenGL graphics and networking.

The little Java Swing game I started off with grew to over 50,000 lines of code over a few years, and it's been a fun journey. I'd like to thank my code contributors, Discord members, and friends for helping! This wouldn't have gotten to where it is without their ideas and support. If you want, you can join in too - by checking out the Discord and GitHub!

Here's to another few years of Tanks! (And don't worry, there are more updates coming).

As a bonus - here's a little screenshot of the very first version of Tanks, v0.1.0:

...and here's the same level in Tanks v1.0.0:

If you want to mess around with older versions (like v0.1.0), here's a folder with every version of Tanks ever made!