Morse Tanks !

This game was made for the NSJS 2025: Short Jam 3 Game jam

A simple game about controling a tank with morse code and trying to blow up your friend's tank (two player game)

How To Play: (I strongly recomend reading this)

the red player sees their dashboard above the map and the blue player's is to the right of the map.

dashboar:

the first line indicates the current letter you are writing (in morse)

the second one contains two numbers:

the first is the amout of frames you have been holding your input for, if it is bigger than 180, realeasing the button will add a dash to the current letter, if less, realeasing the button will add a dit(dot).

the second is a %, when it reaches 100, a space is added to the current order

current order:

third line of your dashboard, it indicates the message that will be sent once you write over.

messages:

the first "word" is the target coordinate, must be your tank, the first value is the column and the second is the row, they must be written in letters like:

ab_fire_over

this will make your tank (if it is on the second tile of the first column) fire

commands:

the second word in your order is the command you give your tank:

move makes your tank go forward by one tile

fire makes you win the game if the enemy tank is right in front of you

spnr will make you turn 90° clockwise

spnl makes you turn 90° counterclockwise

as soon as the last word in your order is "over", the command will be executed.

some example orders (will only work if your tank is at the correct coordinate):

aa_spnr_wawa_over (will make your tank spin 90°clockwise)

the game does not care about any words aside from the first, second and last one

___ce____fire_______over (makes you win the game if the enemy is right in front of you)

the game does not care about the amount of spaces (displayed as underscores for readability)

c_ce_move__over(does nothing)

the games does care about the first two words and does not understand "c" as a coordinate

credits:

the font was made by Daniel Linssen

assets: made by me using piskel, BeepBox and jsfxr

aside from a friend telling me to make a game about a buff chicken, thats all the contributions.

oh, and to write morse, the blue player uses leftclick or A and the red one uses right click or right arrow