uTanks is back. In 2026 the game returned, rebuilt to run in your browser, with the battlefields, ranks and awards of the 2013 game. What follows is how it all began, as Kevin wrote it for the players in 2012.
For those of you that have not been around for long, we have been working on this game for quite some time now. We started almost 3 years ago to this day and while we have had our times of complete dead activity, the map being a ghost town. We've had times where we almost gave up on the game due to life/other stresses.
We never did though, we continued working through it and we have progressed a long way from the first time I posted on bfunity. But enough rambling, you guys want to see some funny shit?
About a year ago, we got to a point where we were finally stable, but things were stirring here at headquarters. Stefan had been up for 3 sleepless weeks with me, learning as fast as I've ever seen someone learn, and while he was learning, tapioca, TTH and myself were talking about a straight up rewrite of the game from scratch. While the game was stable it was just so buggy, the code was a mess and needed lots of work. Here is the final alpha version of the game:
I really want all of you who looked at these and said "yea I remember that" to know I appreciate you sticking through the ups and downs and giving me the drive to keep going on the game when it almost seemed pointless. The game has really changed since those times. Hope to actually play the game some time, maybe Stefan and I can trade places for a while.
See you on the field.
Kevin