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The game was on main server in the beginning of summer 2009.Ĭommunity was just beginning to form itself. Just one month after that, on June 4, open testing began.

To participate in the testing, it was necessary to send a questionnaire to is noteworthy that at this point, the game got an award at the Game Developers Conference (GDC 2009) in the category “Best game without a publisher.” This clearly shows that the game received international recognition already in the test phase. Tanki Online Beginning (2009)Ĭlosed beta testing of the new game called Tanki Online began on May 8, 2009. The dream of a multiplayer action game about tanks began to come true. Here is an archive video of what the game looked like:Īs a result of development, the team got prototypes of Smoky turret and Hunter hull. Tanks had only one map that actually was a single 3D-model (maps in Tanki Online are made of many blocks called props). It required one, two and three hits to destroy light, medium and heavy hull respectively.

Players had a choice of three types of tanks: light, medium and heavy. Garage there was much more diverse than the one in Tanks for Two. Tanks became the prototype of Tanki Online. The demo was developed using the Alternativa3D 5 graphics engine. It was a multiplayer action game about tanks based on Flash. Tanks (late 2008 – early 2009)Ģ months before the start of active development of Tanki Online by AlternativaPlatform team, they came up with a demo what was supposed to demonstrate the possibilities of the server platform. Thanks to this project, there came the idea of ​​a tank multiplayer shooter. Small, simple, with graphic that reminded players of old java-games for mobile phones and only two players – it was that simple. It was designed as an experiment, by young Anton Volkov (wolf) and Alexander Karpovich (karp) – founders of AlternativaPlatform and Tanki Online. Tanks for Two (late 90s)Ībout thirteen years ago, there was an ancestor of Tanki Online – a game called Tanks for Two. This article is for those who want to know about the past of Tanki Online and its origins. We never stop developing the game and looking into the future. This brought Tanki Online to a new level. An important event for the project was the emergence of technical support. Many important things happened, we all got a lot of valuable experience. On JTanki Online celebrated its fourth birthday.