Pocket Tanks

Pocket Tanks
Developer: BlitWise Productions Publisher: BlitWise Productions Platforms: Windows, Mac OS Classic (until 2005), Mac OS X Released internationally: October 26, 2001 This game has a hidden developer message. This game has debugging material. This game has revisional differences.

Logging

The only significant debugging feature left in the game is a logging feature used to playtest the game. To enable it, go to the user directory, then in, Documents\My Games\Pocket Tanks, you should see cp.cfg. Add these lines to the file:

msgLog="1"
bdgLog="1"

Open up the game and it should make a file named log.txt in the same location, where it will track every action performed by the game. Do be warned that this slows the game down dramatically, regardless of how good one's computer is.

Hidden Messages

The title screen theme, "pocket.it", has these strings in it:

(c) 2ooI (Aug 11th)
by DNA-Groove

webmaster@ambrosia.org.il
http://www.
       ambrosia.org.il

Geneticaly designed for
Michael Welch's
magnificent game...

    Pocket Tanks

"ingame.it" has a similar message hidden inside:

(c) 2001 (Aug 25th)
by DNA-Groove
(aka Eliran Ben-Ishai)

webmaster@ambrosia.org.il

In-game music for Mike
Welch's brilliant
Pocket Tanks game.

Revision Differences

Version 1.1 onward allows the player to enable and disable whatever weapons should be used.

Version 1.3 onward allows players to play over a local area network.

Several new effects were added in 1.6 for things like bullet homing effects and wind drag.