This is the first of several posts walking through what TANK is, how it came together, and what building it taught me. Stay alive long enough and you might learn something.
"...want to play a game?"
#arcade #gamedevelopment #portfolio #Battlezone #tribute
A portfolio piece that can fail — that can end in defeat if you make the wrong move — is more truthful than a polished static demo. The game doesn't care about your résumé. It just asks: can you survive?
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developer understands about systems, state, and the moment-to-moment experience of a user.
There's also something honest about it.
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The premise is simple: you're in an arena, enemies appear, and you try to outlast them. The same logic that makes a good arcade game — tight controls, escalating pressure, immediate feedback — also makes for a good demonstration of what a
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The world had weight even though it was made of glowing lines. I never stopped thinking about it.
TANK is my tribute to that feeling. It's a playable, first-person arcade tank game built directly into my software portfolio.
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tried to kill me.
Battlezone was the first game that made me feel like I was *inside* the machine. It was geometry and logic and threat, all at once. The vector graphics looked like nothing else.
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I wanted them to feel something more immediate — the same thing I felt as a kid feeding quarters into a Battlezone cabinet, leaning into that chunky periscope viewport, watching wireframe mountains scroll past while something in the dark
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So I thought about what I wanted a visitor to feel when they landed on my portfolio. Not "impressed." Impressed is passive.
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That always felt like the wrong energy to me — software is alive when it runs, and the best way to understand what someone can build is to actually interact with it.
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Most software portfolios are static. Mine shoots back.
Most software portfolios sit there. They display code, link to repos, maybe show a screenshot or two. They are polite. They wait to be evaluated.
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Microlyte Tankzone AGA Brings Battlezone Action to AmigameJam
#Amiga #AmigaAGA #AmigameJam #MicrolyteTankzone #RetroGaming #Battlezone #IndieRetro #HomebrewGaming
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RTS-Shooter #BATTLEZONE muss man gespielt haben!
Wenn ich an die #Spiele meiner Kindheit zurückdenke, war eins der großen Highlights damals ganz klar die Grafikbombe Battlezone, welches erstmals ein RTS in die Ego-Perspektive legte und mich damit förmlich schockierte, also im positiven Sinne.
#BATTLEZONE 2000
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#DIOCESE OF #CALAHORRA
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On today’s episode, I am going to take a look at the album “Fighting Back” by Paul Di'Anno's Battlezone, the band’s debut studio album released on January 1, 1986.
#PaulDiAnno #Battlezone #FightingBack #MusicPodcast #AlbumReviews #MusicFromALifetime
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Starsim: BattleZone - The Classic RTS Experience is Back!
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A 3D render of a digitally brick built NSDF "Grizzly" Hovertank from the videogame "Battlezone '98".
A 3D render of a digitally brick built GDI Medium Tank unit from the game "Command & Conquer" also known as "Command and Conquer: Tiberian Dawn"
A digital render of a brick-built version of a Tank mech from "Generation Zero".
I saw ppl posting a Mech Monday so how about Tank Tuesday?
#Mecha #Robot #Tank #LEGOMOC #LDD #Stud.Io #Battlezone #CommandAndConquer #GenerationZero #MugbearerMOCs
Há 1 ano perdíamos Paul Di’Anno!!!
Qual a sua canção predileta à voz deste saudoso e icônico frontman, a bordo do Iron Maiden, Battlezone, Praying Mantis, Gogmagog, Rockfellas ou solo?
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🎮 Time to “insert coin” for the classic arcade experience! #Battlezone wasn’t just a game — it rewrote how we saw 3D, tanks & vector graphics in the arcade world. 🚀 #RetroGaming #ArcadeGaming #80sGaming #Atari #GamingHistory #GenXGeek #ClassicArcade #nerd #geek
@13NewsNow - Video game history: The early days of video games and home computers
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#Bradley #Fighting #Vehicle #Training #Simulator #Vector #Video #Game #Battlezone #year1981
We're gaming in reverse? - Live with some #Battlezone98Redux
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#Battlezone #Battlezone98 #Retro #RetroGaming #RetroGamer #BZR #TwitchStreamer #SmallStreamer #CommunityBuilding #FirstPlaythrough #BlindPlaythrough #CommunityGrowth #Rebellion
Going to be Streaming some more @BattlezoneCC today.
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#Battlezone #BattlezoneCombatCommander #BZCC #Retro #RetroGamer #RetroGaming #TwitchAffiliate #TwitchStreamer #SmallStreamer #SmallStreamerCommunity
Same Captain Time, Same Captain Channel - New Captain Name!
(Also technically original name!)
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Battlezone - 1980 - Atari 2600
#retrogamingcommunity #retrogamingcollection #crttv #retrogaming #retrogames #atari #battlezone #atari2600 #atari2600jr #edrotberg #pseudo3d #vintagegaming
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