Tank-Battle

Multiplayer top-down tank battle game

About

The goal of this project is to develop a top-down multiplayer tank battle game that allows two or more players to battle against each other in a “last man standing” setting for an infinite amount of rounds. The game is built using Python and the Pygame library.

The game places players in an enclosed area (map) where each player controls a tank and attempts to destroy all opposing tanks using projectiles, until there is one tank remaining. Once a round concludes, all participating tanks get resurrected, and a new round begins on a different map.

During the game, there is a chance for power-ups to appear, which can get collected by any tank, positively altering its attributes (such as movement speed) or projectile shot pattern for a short amount of time.

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Setup

Prerequisites

• Python 3.12 or 3.13 (Python 3.14+ is not yet supported by pygame)

1. Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/your-username/Tank-Battle.git
cd Tank-Battle

2. Create a virtual environment

py -3.12 -m venv .venv

3. Activate the virtual environment

Windows (PowerShell):

.venv\Scripts\Activate.ps1

Windows (CMD):

.venv\Scripts\activate.bat

macOS / Linux:

source .venv/bin/activate

4. Install dependencies

pip install -r requirements.txt

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Running the game

python main.py        # 2 players (default)
python main.py 3      # 3 players
python main.py 4      # 4 players

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Controls

Player	Move	Shoot
Player 1	W A S D	Left Shift
Player 2	Arrow keys	Enter
Player 3	I J K L	U
Player 4	Numpad 8 4 5 6	Numpad 0