Tanks: The Crusades

Tanks: The Crusades is a game written in Java inspired by Wii Play's Tanks.

There are over 20 unique enemies you can fight, but you can add more of your own too.

The game supports Windows, Mac and Linux.

Tanks can be found on Steam, itch.io, and the iOS App Store

How to play

Controls:

Use the arrow keys or WASD to move

Left click or click space to shoot

Right click or press enter to lay a mine

Press escape to pause the game

Level Editor controls:

Left click to place

Right click on an object to destroy it

Right click on nothing to rotate the object you are placing

Press up and down arrow keys or scroll to cycle enemy tanks

Press left and right arrow keys to cycle enemy tank, obstacle, player tank

Press space to access the object menu

Press escape to change level settings

Press enter to play your level

The following are three screenshots of the game in action. The user controls the azure blue tank using the mouse or keyboard.

Installation

To use the game you need to install Java. For this purpose you may need administrator privileges to install software on your machine. You can install Java from java.com. The minimum Java version is Java 8.

You can download the jar file for Tanks. To run the jar file you can double-click on it.

Development

To develop the game we suggest using Eclipse or IntelliJ. Eclipse can be installed from eclipse.org. IntelliJ can be installed from jetbrains.com.

To access the source code you also need to install Git.

Gradle Build (Recommended)

It is recommended you use gradle to build Tanks using the following commands:

Windows

./gradlew.bat clean build

Unix (OSX, Linux, etc.)

./gradlew clean build

IDE Build

You will need to add the following libraries to the build path of the project:

PNGDecoder by Matthias Mann in TWL

Netty

All the jars and natives of the following LWJGL libraries:

LWJGL (core)

OpenGL

OpenAL

GLFW

Assimp

STB

Commons IO

Steamworks4j

You can all download these libraries in zip format from here.

Please note - Tanks uses a custom version of Steamworks4j compiled with Mac OS arm64 natives. We recommend you use the libraries linked above, because they contain that modified Steamworks4j library.

Credits:

Main Developer:

Matei Budiu (Aehmttw)

Code Contributors:

Karan Gurazada

Hallowizer

Grify

Mihai Budiu

Panadero1

Arkar Tan

Pythonmcpi

Cool TM

QazCetelic

Lancelot

Parth Iyer (ghostlypi)

brodiscool0902 on Discord

Blimpdxmk2

NekoSora

Comet

Supporters:

SapphireDrew

Special Thanks:

Everyone from the Tanks Discord who helped with ideas and bugs!

Font License

This game uses the Source Han Sans typeface ("思源黑体"), licensed under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.
Copyright © 2014-2025 Adobe Systems Incorporated (http://www.adobe.com/), with Reserved Font Name 'Source'.
Source is a trademark of Adobe in the United States and/or other countries.