LÖVE

This is Tank, an ode to combat for the Atari VCS/2600.

I played this with my family when I was a child and have many fond memories. I created this game because it was a simple
game to cut my teeth on while learning LÖVE / Lua. I have never programmed in Lua and
this is my first attempt. I know there is a lot of optimizations possible and they will
be made over time.

I am building this as a framework to create a more complex game.

License ZLIB

Controls :

Start Game F1

Player 1
Movement ARROWS Fire "end" key

Player 2
Movement WASD Fire "e" key

Controls can be easily changed..


The following is a list of planned enhancements.

- Joystick Input
- Configuarble Controls
- More Levels
- Graphical level selector
- More projectile types
- Network support
- Real graphics / Animations
- Scaling
- Sound
- The rest of combat ~ air combat etc...

Let me know if you face any problems / bugs running the game. Most of all tell me if you like it
Enjoy !

Known Issues

• Release 58
• Sounds don't play sometimes - Fxed in svn
• Blinking scoreboard seems to cause slow downs - Anyone else notice this?

Change Log

• Release 58
• Added some sound affects.
• Changed fire key for player 1 to "end" key

Works well here on OS X. I dig the authenticity.

philnelson wrote:Works well here on OS X. I dig the authenticity.

Yeah I was trying to come as close to the original as possible. You can even curve the bullets as well. Soon I will add more levels. The current levels support bouncing bullets but I have not made it the default. Thanks for the feedback

Hahah, I dig this.

I recommend using sfxr to make old-school sound effects if you have Windows.

Skofo wrote:I recommend using sfxr to make old-school sound effects if you have Windows.

You don't need windows to use sfxr.

Here's the link by the way. http://www.cyd.liu.se/~tompe573/hp/project_sfxr.html

Interesting little sfx app. Thanks for sharing

PS: I run Linux BTW.

qubodup wrote:

Skofo wrote:I recommend using sfxr to make old-school sound effects if you have Windows.

You don't need windows to use sfxr.

Here's the link by the way. http://www.cyd.liu.se/~tompe573/hp/project_sfxr.html

Whoops, must've confused it with their music composition program. Sorry! ;

Looks great fun, once I'll be able to play it multiplayer I'm sure I'll run it a lot. One thing though, it isn't really useful that the fire buttons are next to each other. But you've already planned to change that.

@Skofo: Nice program, on my download-sometime-and-play-around-with-it list.

bartbes wrote:Looks great fun, once I'll be able to play it multiplayer I'm sure I'll run it a lot. One thing though, it isn't really useful that the fire buttons are next to each other. But you've already planned to change that.

@Skofo: Nice program, on my download-sometime-and-play-around-with-it list.

I think there may be a subliminal message in there

I changed the fire key to the end key. Hope this is more favorable

LOL the tanks sound like Recognizers from the old Tron movie
Somehow the bullet's path curves when the tank rotates while firing. Very strange.
edit: what are the conditions for winning the game? sometimes it stops at 8 point lead, sometimes at 10, sometimes at 26 points...