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holy hell that is one of the most fun multiplayer game I played!

would love to know more about the engine and development process.

this is what games should be. just hop in and play. no bullshit sign in with your facebook or earn dumb achievements or buy textured guns for money etc.

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The engine is PlayCanvas. It's an open source game engine. Check out the repo on GitHub here: https://github.com/playcanvas/engine There's high level editor tools (kind of a blend of Google Docs and Unity) here: https://playcanvas.com/

Interesting...so does it only work on modern browsers?

Yes. Most importantly it uses WebGL, which isn't available on any versions of IE before IE11: http://caniuse.com/#feat=webgl

List of officially-supported browsers: http://developer.playcanvas.com/en/user-manual/introduction/...

can I contribute to this game or fork it? God I can't stop playing it!

You can indeed, feel free to do so. Here is source of server side code: https://github.com/Maksims/tanx And here is client side: https://playcanvas.com/project/45093/overview/tanx And my email if you want to contact directly: core[at]moka.co

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