This is free art – it is under a Creative Commons Attribution License.
Type: iPhone, iPhone Retina, iPad
Download the art here, or read on for an explanation.
Tank Wars
Pablo Ruiz over at the Ray Wenderlich blog has cooked up a tutorial about how to make a game similar to Advance Wars, so naturally I was asked to make a set of art for it.
Fight to your heart's content.
This game pack is an isometric view tile set, and is not to be confused with the War Tanks game pack, which is a top-down tile set. :]
Unlike most of the free art sets on the site, this pack contains both regular and retina sized sprites, so that you don’t have to do the resizing yourself.
Suggested Game Play
The idea is an isometric turn-based strategy game. Each player has control of one army, composed of units with specific abilities (two types of tanks, a helicopter, foot soldiers). They are trying to defeat the other player’s army and/or capture their opponent’s headquarters.
The game pack could also be used for an isometric action game, since the units have sprites that face all four directions rather than just right and left.
Game Pack Contents
There are two types of background tiles, two landscape objects, several units for each army, and some UI components. Also included are six fonts that go with the game’s UI.
Background Tiles
- Grass: a single sprite, repeatable.
- Water: 20 sprites, with grass edges. You should be able to make most configurations with these, although you may need to layer the corners over top in order to connect all the edges properly.
Landscape Objects
- Mountain
- Trees
Headquarters, mountain, trees, attack crosshair, and move cursor
UI and Gameplay Components
- Attack crosshair
- Move cursor
- Toolbar for iPhone – see mockup at beginning of post.
- Toolbar button
- Popup menu background
- Display Box to show player’s turn, gold accumulated, etc.
- Button: Use wherever you need one!
Mockup of turn box and button UI
Army Units
Each of these comes in red and blue.
- Tank 1: 4 sprites
- Tank 2: 4 sprites
Tanks, and more tanks
- Foot Soldier: 4 sprites
- Helicopter: 4 sprites
- Headquarters: 1 sprite (shown up above with the landscape elements)
Helicopters and soldiers
Extras
- Explosion animation: 7 sprites! There’s an animated GIF in the ZIP file so you can see it put together.
- Game-Over screens: one for victory, one for defeat, and one blank victory screen for putting the text of your choice in the center (as in “Player One Wins!”)
- Fonts: a dark font in two sizes, and a silver font. These can be used on the various UI components so that they match the overall feel of the game.
Win / Lose screens
Enjoy!
As always, I LOVE to hear about what games you make with the free art on this site – if you finish a game with it, send me an email via my Contact page or direct message me on twitter!
Perfect as always!
Thanks!
Thanks for the artwork. It’s great as always. I’m probably being a little dense but what are the water_17.png through water_20.png images for? Are they the corners you mentioned?
Glad you like them!
@Annette – Yes, those are the corners I mentioned. I found that I needed to layer them overtop the other tiles to finish off the edges occasionally. I am working on an upgrade that would have all permutations so that you don’t need to do that, but this way works fine.
Hello, great artwork!
You said Pablo Ruiz is making a game using this art, however I don’t see a Pablo on Ray’s team? http://www.raywenderlich.com/about
Is this tutorial still being made? I hope so!
Thanks!
Yep, the tutorial is still in progress! Pablo will join the team when the tutorial is complete. :]
Very cool. Not being an artist, and not having money yet to pay for artists, this stuff is great!
You definitely have me beat hands down in the artist category
thanks!
Haha, you’re welcome! Let me know if you make a game with it – I’d love to see it in action!
Ok u bet.
I got lots to do but I’ll let you know!
I do it!
http://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.game.tankbattle
Fun Tank Battles for Android
Thanks for Art!