Welcome to Tanks! This is a multiplayer online game where players control tanks and battle against each other.
You can try it out at https://jvranish.github.io/tanks/
To invite other players to your multiplayer game, you can find a join link in the settings dialog (button in top left of screen)
- Arrow keys to move
AandDto rotate turret- Space to shoot
Just clone or download the repo, that's it!
I didn't use any libraries or tools (other than a browser and vscode). I wrote the whole thing from scratch, so there are no other dependencies that need to be installed.
Though, for local development, you will need a local server for testing. If you don't know how to setup a local server I recommend reading MDN's How do you set up a local testing server?. I just use vscode with the live server extension.
The game itself is pretty meh, but I wanted a simple game to test out and showcase my networking library. The networking library is pretty cool IMHO.
Some notable features include:
- New players can join mid-game
- Non-hosts can leave and re-join the game and pickup where they left off
- No dedicated server needed, connections are Peer to Peer via WebRTC
- Abstracts away networking and synchronization. This imposes some architectural constraints (the game must be deterministic, i.e. you can't use no
Math.random, you must use deterministic pseudo-random number generators instead), but free's you from worrying about the networking - Diagnostic tools for debugging de-sync issues
- Saving replays
I still need to package it up and make it nicely available somewhere better, but it's available here!
Other cool tools I used for the assets:
- Photopea
- I purchased the graphical assets on Craftpix, but did some touch-ups
- Leshy SFMaker - Online Sound Effect Generator