IT’S TANKS! Released!

IT'S TANKS!

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We’re happy to announce that our new game IT’S TANKS! is now available globally in the App Store for all iPhones, iPads and iPods that have at least iOS 6.  IT’S TANKS! is an asynchronous multiplayer tank vs tank game following in the footsteps of 80s and 90s classics like Scorched Earth.  In other words, the kind of games that helped turn us into gamers and game creators in the first place.  It’s free to download and play and has both online and local multiplayer.  We’ve been working on this since last September, iterating, iterating, iterating to get something that we’re proud to put our names to and hope that you enjoy playing it too.

Players battle in online & local turn based versus matches in randomly created, completely destructible levels.  The focus for us was on making the gameplay experience quick and fun with taking a turn being something you can easily do in 20 seconds while waiting for a bus, waiting in a queue or just have 20 seconds to kill.  On the other hand, sitting watching TV and playing people in the same room for hours is also a great experience so you can see the look on someones face as you destroy their tank.  There were several great (or so I’m told) 6-nations rugby games we managed to ignore while testing this because we were enjoying blowing each other’s tanks up too much.

There’s more details on the game, it’s weapons, items and the team on the main page here.  Why not give it a try?  As I wrote above it’s completely free and a small download, so it will be quick to install and try.  If you like it, you can tweet or post to FaceBook directly from inside the game to tell your friends……and then destroy their tanks!

Download it now!  https://itunes.apple.com/app/its-tanks!/id568868930

Visit the IT’S TANKS! page.

IT’S TANKS! Problems & Temporary Removal from the App Store

If you’ve already downloaded and started playing IT’S TANKS! in the few hours it’s been available, we hope you’ve been enjoying it so far, but if you could hold off telling your friends to download it for the moment that would be much appreciated.

We’ve identified a problem with rematches that wasn’t showing up in the Game Center sandbox environment (the game gets stuck on the “Creating Game” message occasionally if you rematch someone) and have removed IT’S TANKS! from the app store until we can get a fix written and through Apple’s certification.  We’re trying to get this through as quick as possible and will be going full ahead with launching IT’S TANKS! properly once it’s back in the App store.

In the meantime, the versions you have still work fine bar the bug so feel free to keep shooting each others’ Tanks!  And if you feel like shooting the devs, I’m Caffeinebomb on Game Center so fire away!