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!

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!

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.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1046630/Tank_Maniacs/

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.

• 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

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!

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!


https://store.steampowered.com/app/1046630/Tank_Maniacs/

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!

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!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1046630/Tank_Maniacs/

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 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!

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!
Be prepared, follow our sites and wishlist the game on Steam! Let the mayhem began!

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

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:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1046630/Tank_Maniacs/

And now let’s see the offer you can’t refuse!

Our first demo release includes:

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

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

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

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

• App Store
  
• Google Play[play.google.com]

Feast your eyes on our new explosion effects and other breathtaking visual improvements.

Added

• High-dynamic range explosion effects
  
• Ability to skip the match summary screen
  
• Meteor forecast indicator (first iteration)
  
• Steam Controller support
  
• Bot Dispenser sound effects
  
• Glow effect to bubble shields

Changed

• Post process effect and colour tweaks on every map
  
• Summary screen visual update
  
• Machinegun sound effect fade-out shortened
  
• Death “skull animation” retouched
  
• Made the leading player’s crown icon more visible on dark backgrounds
  
• PigBird explosion is now a mushroom cloud
  
• Increased tank death explosion effect
  
• In-match player character thumbnails updated
  
• Map selector thumbnails and order updated

Fixed

• Level selector votes getting stuck
  
• Pause causing issues with map selector
  
• Death Valley teleporters not working with projectiles
  
• UFO laser causing crashes

Free app for iOS and Android[tankmaniacs.com]

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

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[tankmaniacs.com] 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.

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