Pocket Tanks
(Shareware Edition)
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version 1.3
September 27th, 2007
Copyright 2001-2007 BlitWise Productions, LLC
written by: Michael P. Welch
e-mail: [email protected]
website: www.blitwise.com
music by: Eliran Ben-Ishai (DNA-Groove)
e-mail: [email protected]
website: www.mindjob.org
Additional Credits:
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Benjamin Moreno – programming & Linux version
Brian P. McCabe – technical support
Michael S. Austin – programming & Mac version
Mike Boeh – graphics engine optimizations
Requirements:
Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP/Vista (2000 and newer required for network games)
DirectX 3 or greater (DirectX 8 with latest video card drivers recommended)
233Mhz CPU
32 megs of memory
video card that supports:
800×600 resolution and 16/24/32 bit color depths (32-bit suggested)
Technical Support:
If you run into any trouble, visit my support page first:
http://www.blitwise.com/support.html
If you find any bugs in the game, report them to:
e-mail: [email protected]
Please include what version of Windows you’re running on. Thanks.
Shareware Edition:
I would encourage you to share Pocket Tanks Shareware with everyone you know.
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It’s a free game, and who doesn’t want to play a high quality game that’s free?
Pocket Tanks is a shareware game in that you have all the gameplay, options,
and weapons you need to enjoy a great game of artillery. However, if you truly
like the game, I hope that you would support our efforts by purchasing
Pocket Tanks Deluxe. Buying the Deluxe edition not only gets you new weapons,
but you will also help us keep the ship afloat.
The shareware version of Pocket Tanks can be freely distributed by end-users
and vendors through web sites, on-line services, shareware disk vendors,
CD-ROM vendors, and bulletin board systems. However, Pocket Tanks Shareware
is not to be represented as a stand-alone commercial product that is sold
for profit. Authorization from BlitWise Productions LLC is not required to
distribute Pocket Tanks Shareware by vendors for legitimate shareware and
freeware uses. If you have any questions, feel free to email
Pocket Tanks Deluxe is the registered version of the game and
is NOT freely distributable. Doing so would be considered piracy, and would
hurt my ability to write you more games.
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Pocket Tanks Deluxe
Upgrade today and receive:
– 30 brand new weapons, which brings you up to 60 weapons total
– Many of the Deluxe weapons are very ‘big’, and much more exciting
– You’ll also get the ability to use weapon expansion packs, which will
be released in the future.
– Download and use ‘freebie’ weapons
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‘nuclear’ weapons with huge explosions like everyone’s favorite,
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* Game Instructions *
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The basics:
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This is a simple artillery game: two tanks, one hill, and a whole bunch of
neat weapons to fire at each other.
Select your power and angle, and fire the selected weapon.
It’s just that easy! First try the game in Target Practice mode
to get a feel for the weapons.
Hot Keys
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The game is played with a mouse, but there are a few keyboard
shortcuts that you can take advantage of.
ESC = Escape key exits the scene/game etc…
F5 = toggle sounf fx on/off
F6 = toggle music on/off
F7 = toggle windowed/fullscreen
f8 = toggle LCD stretch/desktop resolution
SPACEBAR = Fire
UP = Increase power
DOWN = Decrease power
LEFT = Raise Angle
RIGHT = Lower Angle
A = Up one weapon
Z = Down one weapon
, = Move left
. = Move right
ENTER = Open chat window [Network Game]
1 Player Game:
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The first player is human, the other will be computer controlled. The ‘CPU’ player
has a difficulty rating from 1-easy to 10-hard. 10 is pretty darn hard, unless
you are very skilled at picking weapons or know how to trick the AI. 🙂
2 Player Game:
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Both players are human. This is the only mode where high scores are recorded.
Network Game:
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Play a game over your local computer network (LAN).
On the Lobby screen, you have the option to browse the various Pocket Tanks
games that may already be on your network. To join a game, click the name
of the game in the Game List and click the Join Game button.
To create your own game on the LAN, click the Create Game button. There you
can enter a game name and change the game settings and available weapons to
your liking. When ready, click the Create Game button, and you will enter the
Chat screen where you wait patiently for another player to join your game.
In the Chat screen, you’ll see the weapons and expansion packs color-coded based
on availability on both systems. Once a player joins, only the green color
weapons are installed on both computers and will be used in play.
There is a Kick button next to a players name, if the game creator wishes to
remove a player from the game. Please consider using a game password to keep
a game private. It’s not polite to kick people out of your game while you wait
for the right person to join. 🙂
Once the game has started, you can hit the ENTER key on your keyboard to open up
a chat window and talk to the other player. Simply hit ENTER to send the text
that you type.
Target Practice:
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Go here to experiment with all the available weapons.
Remember that the weapons that are removed from play via the Option screen
are also removed from Target Practice.
Options:
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F5 key – Sound FX: Toggles sound effects on/off
F6 key – Music: Toggles music on/off (F6 key)
F7 key – Display: Toggles between windowed and fullscreen modes
F8 key – LCD Fullscreen: When in fullscreen mode, toggles between centered
and stretched graphics
‘Save & Exit’ button – Saves your current game settings and exits the option screen
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‘Cancel’ button – Ignores your latest game setting changes and exits the option screen
Weapon Selection:
Allows you to remove any number of weapons temporarily from play. This is handy if
you have some weapons that you do not want to use. You can also create you own sets
of weapons and save them for custom games.
(ie- The Big Guns, No Dirt Weapons, etc…)
* It’s important to remember that this is a ‘black list’ of weapons that you do not
wish to see in the game. This is so that when you install new weapon packs, that they
are visible in the game until you decide to ‘remove’ them from play.
Game Options:
Terrain Type – Hill is default, but Valley, Cliff, Flats, and Random are available
Explosion Size – Turn up the explosion size for extra fun
Explosion Kick – You can really make tanks fly! 🙂
Turret Orientation – Absolute is default, and it means the angle of the turret
is relative to the world. Relative To Tank means
as the tank rotates, so does the turret angle. This is
a lot more fun for advanced players, because if the tank
moves, chances are the angle is changed thus throwing off their
lock on the target.
Wind Speed – Turns on wind and changes wind speeds, which effects bullet movement.
If wind is turned on, you’ll see a wind indicator in the upper
right-hand side of the panel
Wind Variability – Alters how much the wind speed changes at a time
Wind Change – Alters how often the wind changes speed/direction
Default Options – Restores the default Pocket Tanks options
Setting:
Load – Load weapon and game options from a file
Save As – Save weapon and game options to a file
Delete – Delete a settings file from the list
Default – Restores weapons and game options to their default values
The Weapon Shop:
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in a way similar to picking teams in a game of kickball. Player 1 picks,
player 2 picks, etc… until all 20 weapons are selected. If at any point you
get bored with picking weapons, click the ‘random’ button and the computer
will finish off the weapon selecting for both players.
During the Game:
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Each game has 10 volleys. A volley is when player 1 gets a chance to shoot, and
player 2 has the opportunity to return a shot. Each player starts out with
10 weapons, and they are used up as the game continues. To exit the game at any
point, hit the ESC ‘Escape’ key.
Buttons:
Move – Move the tank a small distance, only 4 moves per game, you still get to
shoot after moving
Angle – Click on the dome and a crosshair will appear over the tank. Moving the
mouse left and right will change the angle to fire in. Clicking the
mouse again will select that angle.
Power – Click the red power bar and move the mouse left and right to change the
amount of power that will be used to launch the bullet.
Weapon – Click on the weapon name for a weapon selection pop-up. Moving the
mouse up and down with change the selected wea