Missing white christmas? Forget reality and check out our brand new post-apocalyptic winter map with damaged ancient Chinese and USSR mecha warriors in a wonderfully combat-driven Christmas environment!
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All of you who suffer from annoying christmas background music overdose enjoy our special gift: jingle bells era is now officially over. We turned Tank Maniacs main theme into a Christmas themed masterpiece. Be the first to hear!
Changelog
Brand new post-apocalyptic winter map with damaged ancient Chinese and USSR mecha warriors in a wonderfully combat-driven Christmas environment!
Minor Christmas-themed asset updates (tanks, pickups and many more!)
Santa’s crew got oily while working in the tank factory. They even changed the background music. Thankfully it is not like one of the well-known shopping mall Christmas hits.
Known issues
Sometimes layer opacity behaves unexpectedly with the showrunner’s plane.
Issues with XBox One controllers connected after the game started
Weird winning scores when a bot match is sped up
Sometimes on Swamp, the Alligator just does not want to stop biting
Join the community! If you are searching for a friend to play with, or you just would like to give feedback to the developers, make sure to join our official Discord server at http://discord.gg/tankmaniacs!
Tank Maniacs is now available on Steam
Dearest Fans!
We are very excited to share this precious historical moment with you all! For an entire year our team has been putting all of its energy, knowledge and enthusiasm into developing the world’s (probably) best couch party game. You are on the right page, cause TM is the one!
Fun fact: it all started in a garage. Ok, no. But really, the whole idea of The Game was born while having fun at one of our regular game jams at Gamelab, our indie game developer studio. The first playable version of Tank Maniacs was put together in not more than 3 awesome days, by a bunch of awesome guys, and we enjoyed the game so much that kinda thought: hey, why not put all 20 of us on the project and spend an entire year eating only pizza out of boxes, getting fat, working on weekends and sleeping in the office just to add some extra good stuff for other geeks like us... Ok ok. We’re actually not fat, have regular workouts in the gym, respect weekends, but we’re sure so much in love with our work and our game, that any of the above would almost worth it.
So, releasing Tank Maniacs is the first real significant milestone in Gamelab’s history. And you’re here to see The Day. Enjoy! And be one of the firsts to buy the game. Thank you for becoming an obsessed TMaddict. We promise to commit everything to slowly overdose you with the most irresistible updates.
Main features
Couch madness for up to 4 players
8 beautiful levels with unique features
11 wonderfully weird tanks (including the Thanksgiving “Turkey Tank”)!
12 wacky characters
4 game modes + team based variations
Dynamic commentary
Unforgiving AI bots
Twitch integration with in-game voting
Fun, cartoony art style with hand-drawn graphics
Punchy electro-rock soundtrack
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Twitch Extension
When you already think it’s too much of the good news we just have an ultimate one: the Twitch update is also available! Oh that’s great but what the f… is Twitch mode? So with the twitch extension your audience can interfere in the game while you’re streaming it. They will be able to vote on various different events, and create some beautiful chaos!
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Steam Remote Play
Tank Maniacs was born to be enjoyed by your friends on your side, so you can laugh in their faces when you beat them. But thanks to Steam Remote Play Together, you can play together even if you're hundreds of miles apart. Just make sure you still make fun of the guy with the poop rank at the end!
Tank Maniacs will be released on the 5th of December
Tank Maniacs will be released on the 5th of December
We’re thrilled to announce that it is happening! Get ready, and tell all your pals that it is true: Tank Maniacs is finally going to be released for PC on Steam on the 5th of December!
Tank Maniacs FREE Demo is live again
For those of you who missed our demo or want to see the final game in advance before buying it, the great news is: demo is available again till the 6th of December!
Download the demo on Steam and check out the 3 completely new maps: the gorgeous Grassland, the tricky Bridge Ruins and the exotic Jungle!
All of the 8 gamemodes currently available in the final game are already included in the demo: the Gameshow, the Team Gameshow, the Symmetric Showdown, the Team Symmetric Showdown, the Last Tank Standing, the Last Team Standing the Deathmatch and the Team Deathmatch. Will there be more gamemodes for Tank Maniacs? YES!
Thanksgiving update
Thanksgiving is almost here and of course we are adding something extra! A real Thanksgiving update, and as you can guess, it’s an awesome Turkey Tank! Thrilled about it? Check it out in the demo!
Twitch Extension
When you already think it’s too much of the good news we just have an ultimate one: Twitch update is also available! Oh that’s great but what the f… is Twitch mode?
So with the twitch extension your audience can interfere in the game while you’re streaming the match. They will be able to vote during several different events, and create overwhelming chaos! [previewyoutube="7K4NtIOnPAE;full"] Be prepared, follow our sites and wishlist the game on Steam! Let the mayhem began!
New York update v0.9.3.
We just can’t stop spoiling you… It’s not even Xmas and we already added 4 absolutely new game modes: the Gameshow and the Symmetric Showdown and both their team versions, not to mention a completely new map, called New York, we guess even just reading the name you already envision something completely different from the earlier maps, and so it is, and oh, wait… you know what has changed to be even more user friendly and awesome? The Menu! What else do you want? Now you name it! Actually now you can, because guess what, you can set your own nickname after you pick your pilot. And lots of other new stuff so just run through and read it anyways. Get on with it, get spoiled. Santa’s almost here, soooo... wishlist now!
Game modes
We have 4 new game modes!
Gameshow
In the Gameshow mode players will have to pay attention to another threat! From time to time, the “UH-1 Good Looking” appears and chooses a random tank. In case it’s you, you better run because a Holy Hand Grenade (among many other things) could be the one that ends your career.
Team Gameshow
This is the same as the Gameshow mode, but you can team up with your friend and fight against another team.
Symmetric Showdown
We have always wondered what happens when everybody drives the same tank. In the Symmetric Showdown all players get the same tank and once in a while it’ll change randomly. Beware! Your health remains on the same level!
Team Symmetric Showdown
This is the same as the Symmetric Showdown mode, but you can team up with your friend and fight against another team.
Maps
A new map, called New York is now available
Added features:
Now you can set your own nickname after you choose your character
If you’ve run out of lives during a match now you can still influence the gameplay
Changed:
We have a new menu design
The airplane is now following a random path every time it appears
Now we fill up the empty spaces with bots automatically (you can still change the quantity)
We have reworked the following maps:
Bridge Ruins
Rolling Stones
Swamp
We’ve changed a lot of other things under the hood
Currently not available:
The Chicken Tank
The Catapult Tank
Tutorial
Maps: Down Hill, Trampoline 2, Volcano holo maps
Bot matches are temporarily turned off
Free Demo for Tank Maniacs is live now
What’s the only thing that could beat the good news that Tank Maniacs is almost ready to be published? Of course the even better news: we made a demo for our fans! Certainly we can still beat the good and even better news: our demo is FREE and available from 05/11 till 17/11! Too bad we can’t see your faces now. But maybe not too bad after all.
So if you’re up to the game all you have to do now is to gather 3 of your best friends or any available family members, or just let’s say less obnoxious classmates, but maybe simply random people in your dorm who are still willing to talk to you will do, so the 4 of you can now occupy the couch and start the battle! But of course if humans in your reach are scarce or you prefer your own company over all other creatures’, we have charming AI bots to beat you. You’re welcome.
You can find the "Download Demo" button on the store page:
3 beautiful hand-drawn, post-apocalyptic maps with different obstacles, featuring sandstorms, giants and alligators - all part of a future TV show where the players fight each other using tanks.
These arenas for the demo are:
Swamp
Grassland
Death Valley
A diegetic menu that demonstrates the gameplay and lets the players set up any match using basic game, including three rooms (one for joining, one for setting the game mode, one for setting bots, teams and starting the game)
Pickable game characters all coming from various, funny backgrounds, featuring
Granbo
Blondie
King Potato
Shadow Nugget
Zombonie
Swaggie
Lil Bling
Wendy
Sgt. Smokes
R4pt0r
Herr Hund
Dr Evil
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10 outstanding, hand-drawn tanks, each having unique projectiles and features from close combat through sniping skills to sci-fi laser beams.
The featured tanks are the following:
Basic
Helmet
Dragon
Flappy
Glove
Machinegun
Matryoshka
Mortar
Robot
UFO
You will also get:
An unforgiving AI controlling bots, in case you can not fill your party with your real-life friends.
A delivery management system that sends your tanks as pickups dropped from an airplane. This airplane helps you respawn as well.
“Last Tank Standing” gamemode where the winner is who survives the longest. You have 5 lives. “Last Team Standing” gamemode, where teammates lives add up together.
A complete soundtrack ranging from desert rock to ska, funny cartoonish sound design and an announcer commentating each moment either you are awesome or not.
Major gameplay updates compared to closed beta - an all physics-based gameplay in a 2D environment including wind effects, force fields, gravity, shockwaves and rockets that can fall back on you if you are not careful enough.
Controller support for all PC-compatible controllers, and of course for keyboard.
Known issues:
AI sometimes gets stuck on a spot
Minor and rare issues (stuck wheels) when teleporting on Death Valley
Issues with saving some settings (volume, resolution)
Players can not go back to main menu from match result screen
Rarely pickup event triggers unintentional tank size changes
Sassy Catapult update, v0.2
Now you can feel like in seventh heaven, or even more, since we added 6 new maps to the game! The new scenes widened our horizon and brought brand new songs and sound effects, and also we couldn’t resist to expand our arsenal of tanks even further, so added something awesome and powerful: the Catapult Tank! The AI behind our tanks has gone through significant improvement, meaning that by now they all developed their own battle tactics, so you better keep up! If you’re ready for the new stuff just check our fresh INTRO animation, get you buddies on the couch and test the game. Or just keep playin’ with the bots!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=se4XbW8vKP4
Now here are the patch notes:
ADDED
New INTRO animation!
New maps: Swamp, Bridge Ruins, Downhill, Rolling Stones, Trampoline, Trampoline 2
Bridge Ruins
Swamp
New tank: Catapult tank!
New songs and sound effects
AI logic improvements, personalities
Tank smearing animation when changing direction
Zeppelin animations
More talkative and sassier announcer
New controller vibrations
Showing lives left during last tank/team standing gamemodes
Different particles on different floor types
Summary screen and progression summary speedup function
CHANGED
Visually changed explosions
Visually changed timered pickup
Summary screen sound updates
Bot dispenser bot preservation in Main Menu
Tank movement methods changes
Visual tweaks on shield
AI tweaks
FIXED
Performance optimizations (AI, Main Menu, etc.)
Scorehud animations
Fixes in controller app
Tons of bugfixes
KNOWN ISSUES
On the bridge ruins map tanks can get stuck, and thus, match on that map can be impossible to win
Mothership update v0.1.15
Play multiple turns in quick succession and earn points to compete for the ultimate first prize! Deathmatch and its team variant got an overhaul. The AI bots won’t act as clueless lemmings anymore and will attempt to jump over chasms and even evade incoming fire. Our beloved narrator now also comments on character specific events. This version also includes some new features that won’t be present on the supported Steam operating systems. Namely we have implemented similar touch-control methods in-game as for the Controller App.
Added
Game mode settings in lobby Supercomputer™
New splash screen animation
New AI behaviour: chasm detection and jump evade
New narrator voice lines
Animations and sound effects for summary screen
Deathmatch score HUD
Double kill and triple kill events
Fast forward sound and visual effects for skipping bot matches
Support for multiple turn matches
Changed
Tweaked meteor forecast feature
Fixed
Pick-up HUD indicator disappearing
Join our Discord and tell us what you think about the update
https://discord.gg/tankmaniacs
The controller app now features haptic feedback on supported devices.
To reduce input lag we use UDP for movement. We have received error reports so we have implemented an automatic fallback option to switch it to more reliable TCP/IP.
Based on the feedback received we have swapped the jump and fire button’s placement. Please let us know which layout do you prefer.
Added pause menu button
Swapped jump and fire button placement
Increased jump button size
Haptic feedback feature and toggle
TCP fallback option
Join our Discord and tell us what you think about the update
https://discord.gg/tankmaniacs
PlayIT report
This year we doubled the size of the GAMELAB living room at PlayIT, the largest gaming event in Hungary. It was awesome to meet some of our commited test pilots in person and lure in new fans with the game's soundtrack performed live by our band. Next to the couches players could download the free Controller App and play the game running on an iPad.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvmnFQMhoxo
Kudos to the organisers for providing me with the opportunity to represent our fantastic team on the main stage, talking about the development's history and future. I also had the chance to showcase the current version playing with household names. I am happy to report that the build was rock solid and the game has improved a lot both visually and in usability. It was a lovely sight when the streamer Paplovag Gaming threw in a limited Tank Maniacs boxed copy into the crowd like a shuriken.
Bot dispenser update v0.1.11
This update includes a new method to manually add or remove AI bots. By default the matches won't have bots in them, but you can customise this in the ready room using the patented Bot Dispenser Platform. It even works with team modes.
Added
Diegetic Bot Dispenser automatons in the lobby
Level selector sound effects
Pause sound effects
Lobby pipe animations
New test map: Volcano
Changed
Buff: Dragon tank fire particle lifetime increased
Tweaked timed pick-up bubble shield physics
CPU label was changed to BOT
Announcer won’t speak if the game is paused
Introduced a slight life-like delay to the announcer reaction time
Diegetic menu improvements
Last death sound effect won’t fade out
Music volume setting will play without low pass filter effect
Pause menu visuals
Controller app hint tweaks
Gamepad vibration tweaks
New Death Valley background visuals
Fixed
Player limit cap issues
Dr Evil “craving blood” event trigger
Announcer won’t go silent after the first match
Join our Discord and tell us what you think about the update
https://discord.gg/tankmaniacs
