Tanks! Mayhem is back: 16 years later, in your browser

Back in 2010 I wrote a tank game. It started life as a competition entry to win a laptop from HP by writing something for the Palm Pre (remember those?), got ported to the iPhone and iPad, and ended up on the App Store as Tanks! Mayhem, a Battlezone-style shooter with glowing vector graphics. It didn’t fly off the shelves; even back then competition was stiff in the app world. But it didn’t do badly. Then in 2011 I got an email from Apple: Atari had complained that a game where you drive a tank around shooting other tanks infringed their copyright. I briefly thought about fighting this, but when your opposition is a company with lawyers on the payroll, it’s just not worth it. I pulled it from the US store, and that was that. I was pretty grumpy about it at the time. Eventually, I moved on from writing my own apps and the source code has been sitting in a Dropbox folder ever since. Sixteen years is a long time and things have moved on around it. It no longer compiles and there’s little…