Free open-source remake
Tanks, wind, crooked trajectories, questionable shopping decisions, and just enough chaos to make a perfect shot feel like science.
Straight into battle
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What is this?
Tank Blaster is a turn-based artillery game: tanks sit in absurdly unfriendly terrain, the wind interferes without being asked, and in the end the winner is usually the person claiming the last hit was planned exactly that way.
Between rounds, you go shopping. Small weapons, large weapons, serious-looking weapons, weapons with the charm of a faulty chemistry kit. Then you aim, fire, tremble, and cheer while the landscape comments on your calculations.
The remake
Markus Döhla played Tank Blaster around 34 years ago. Years later, Tank Blaster 2 hit the table again—this time with his own children. The game still worked wonderfully as a source of family chaos, though unfortunately, the aging title no longer ran smoothly on modern versions of Windows.
Because Tank Blaster 2 kept crashing on Windows 10/11, the remake was born out of a mix of frustration and a love for the game—reprogrammed in Go with the goal of ensuring stable gameplay while preserving the character of the original.
Tank Blaster stays Tank Blaster: with respect for Axel Lauer's original, its humor, and that wonderfully rough artillery energy. Free, open, and close to the old feeling.
Thank you, Axel
Special thanks go to Axel Lauer, the original author of Tank Blaster. He allowed me to make the Tank Blaster Remake available for free and to continue the project respectfully on the basis of the original.
Axel was also kind enough to provide additional material from the original development period: original C++ code, original graphics, and sounds. That lets the remake not only look like Tank Blaster, but stay much closer to its actual history.
According to Axel's recollection, the sounds came from a public-domain database from the 1990s or 2000s; he created some sounds himself. He said the two music tracks definitely came from a public-domain database.
Retro lookback
Straight from the shareware era: table layouts, GIF buttons, Windows 9x, and exactly the right amount of yellow on black. A small trip back to where Tank Blaster once lived online.
