The Battle Tank MIDlet is an arcade-style shoot 'em up ("shmup") game where the player's objective is to defend the base and destroy all enemy tanks. Battle Tank is distributed as a trial version.
The main features of Battle Tank are:
Destructible game world
Large levels
Various types of enemy tanks
Bonus items (a grenade destroys all enemy tanks, a star makes the player's tank indestructible for short time, and so on)
To ensure the best possible gaming performance on mobile devices, Battle Tank has been designed to:
Avoid heavy calculations
Use UI components provided by the device platform (Sprites
, TiledLayers
, LayerManager
)
Use multiple threads to ensure that the UI responds smoothly
Battle Tank supports multiple resolutions and both touch and key input.
Figure: Battle Tank trial version at medium (240x320) and low (128x160) resolutions
For information about implementing the Battle Tank MIDlet, see section Implementation.