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abstractanks is a fast-paced arcade real-time strategy game, developed for PC and Mac. It obviously shares the DNA of such games as Galcon or Multiwinia, but unlike those, each unit has a mass and occupies its own space. Positioning of your units is crucial in abstractanks.My name is Marius and I have been building this game mostly on my own, with the occasional help from friends.I started on this project in 2012 and first released it on the now defunct desura.com in august of 2013. The network engine has undergone a major rewrite since the first version, changing it from a peer-to-peer simulation to a server based system. This enabled cross-platform multiplayer and proper support for Linux and Mac.The game is built in C++ and Lua, using OpenGL and a number of open-source libraries. It does not use a pre-made engine. The game originally used Direct3D 10 for its rendering, which was later upgraded to Direct3D 11. For a while, both the Direct3D and the OpenGL renderer remained, but since OpenGL support looked pretty stable on all my target platforms, I eventually ditched the DX back end.These awesome libraries: Boost C++ Libraries, Lua, RakNet, Box2D, Protobuf, {fmt}, MPark.Variant, Assimp, Freetype, Luabind (deboostified), curl, OpenSSL, OpenAL Soft, SDL, nlohmann JSON, stb single-file libs, spdlog, lz4, pugixml