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We'll be hosting a 3v3 event later today at 3:30pm AEST.
Round up your friends and make sure you're all signed up to the beta! We need at least 6 people in each area to find a match.

Please head to www.picotanks.com/beta for more information. We particularly need more people in and around the US to jump on as we haven't yet had enough online at once to form a 3v3 match. Hope to see you online!

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Try not to celebrate too early. Protect the flag at all costs!

We need your help to beta test! Please head to www.picotanks.com/beta to join. Us devs are on the Discord and happy to answer any questions.

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We need your help, beta testers! Please join us in a few days to test 3v3 matches in a NEW update.  If you're not in the beta, we would love for you to join.

For details please head to www.picotanks.com/beta. We'll be testing 3v3 so if you have a bit of time for a match or two we would really appreciate it!

Have a good weekend

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It’s THE TOPPER UPDATE and it's out NOW! We've added 145 new toppers. We’ve got Fruit Bowls, we’ve got Balloons, we’ve got Golden Toilets, Sheep, and Mini Tanks that sit on top of the main tank. Choose from a rainbow of colours and look your best on the battlefield!

Notable inclusions in Beta Version 15.0:
- 1v1 & 2v2 is back
- Group chat
- 145 new toppers
You can read all of the changes here: picotanks.com/changelog

Sign up to the closed beta: picotanks.com/beta

Have more topper ideas? Let us know!

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Calling beta testers in Europe, America and Russia! Jump on Discord later today to participate in crazy 3v3 matches.
Saturday 6:00pm UTC. Head to www.picotanks.com/beta for more information.





Australia, NZ and Asia event on Monday!

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We are finalising the names for all the items in Pico Tanks before we release the game to the public, and we would love your opinion on Tank Bases and Abilities 

You can add your own ideas or you can vote for the options already in the list. Feel free to discuss on our Discord

https://forms.gle/We6gGexw6Fz8Q3Es7

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This poor topper has forever floated around in a spooky abandoned cave. That is, until small tanks with quirky configurations and colors appeared!

Choose from a crazy amount of toppers to decorate your tank in Pico Tanks Beta. All items are unlocked! www.picotanks.com/beta





We have added ambient sounds to give this map a bit more life (sans mine cart). What do you think?

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Shader animations for UI


We made another indicator for when the games loses connection with the online services. We will likely make it another color at some point.

https://i.imgur.com/bhTetRt.mp4

The moving parts of these UI elements are animated using shaders. We do this so that the mesh Unity generates for the UI isn't getting rebuilt every frame on the CPU.

This is achieved in two different ways here.  The cogs use a feature in Amplify called the Rotator which rotates a UV or other Vector 2 position by an angular value of Time from an Anchor point.  For those who don't know, a UV coordinate basically tells the renderer which pixel of a texture to draw on a particular part of the mesh.  While the connection plug, rather than adjusting the UV coordinates, offsets the final positions of the vertices using basic trigonometric functions very efficiently at render time.

In this video, you can see how the cogs' mesh isn't rotating but the connection plug mesh is moving back and forth.

https://i.imgur.com/I2sYuU2.mp4

Why did we do them differently?  We did the cogs this way because we also did a 2D effect to give them depth which wouldn't work if we were rotating the cogs' mesh.  The connection plug was animated this way because if we were doing it by offsetting the UV coordinates the mesh that the plug was rendering on would have to be long enough to accommodate the movement I wanted. Otherwise the plug texture would move off the edge of the mesh.

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This is some footage of our last beta test, thank you to everyone who has been testing with us! We have some more playtests coming up and we'd love to see you online. Newcomers welcome https://www.picotanks.com/beta

Jump online and play Pico Tanks 3v3 matches again this weekend!
- Saturday 3pm UTC America, Europe and Russia regions

Pico Tanks developers play with beta testers during the Monday session - come show us what you got.
- Monday 3:30pm AEDT Australia and Asia regions

Make sure you matchmake on the Discord so you can get a match!

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Pico Tanks Beta Version 16.0 is out!
You can read all of the changes here: picotanks.com/changelog

Notable inclusions are:
46 new emotes 
Original menu music
Rainbow Mohawk topper
Renamed Tank Bodies, Abilities and Maps (with the help of our beta testers)

Play the beta now! picotanks.com/beta

New Emotes!
You can communicate with your team with emotes during gameplay. Pico Tanks now has over 50 emotes with unique sounds. Try them all out in this new update and let us know what you think! You can equip up to five at any one time - which five do you choose?

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It's Melbourne International Games Week! Because we are so close to launching, Pico Tanks won't be at PAX Australia this weekend

But if you are going to GCAP, you can see our studio manager Alicia Jakovich on a panel talking about F2P games tomorrow https://sched.co/Us4c

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Sparks fly, the engine sputters, and smoke trails behind while your tank chugs along on low health. The screen also pulses red until you heal up!





Join us on the beta: https://www.picotanks.com/beta
Signup to our mailing list for our upcoming launch date announcement: http://eepurl.com/dODw0r

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Customise your tanks for 3v3 Multiplayer Mayhem with the developers tomorrow! Matchmaking will be on our Discord. See you there  
  Fri 4:30am UTC (3:30pm AEDT; Thur 9:30pm PDT)
  All regions
  www.picotanks.com/beta

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Exciting news! We will be announcing the soft-launch date for Pico Tanks this week.
Subscribe to our mailing list to be one of the first to know: http://eepurl.com/dODw0r

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Pico Tanks is launching in select regions November 28 and will be available for free on iOS and Android! Pre-register on Google Play for an in-game reward: http://bit.ly/PicoTanksPreRegister.

Regions included in this round of launch: Australia, New Zealand and Philippines. Global launch TBA!

Check out the brand new trailer for Pico Tanks...

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Pico Tanks Beta Version 17.0 is out! https://www.picotanks.com/changelog

New tutorial in the tank customization menu
Original music in the main tutorial level
Updated names for paints and toppers



Sign up to the beta: https://www.picotanks.com/beta
Pre-Register for full game on Google Play: bit.ly/PicoTanksPreRegister

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Our newest and most colorful tank topper has arrived, the Rainbow Mohawk. In Pico Tanks, you can decorate your tanks with more than 230 paints and toppers to choose from, with many more designs and variants on the way! Closed Beta: https://www.picotanks.com/beta





Pico Tanks will be available on iOS and Android in Australia, New Zealand and the Philippines November 28! Pre-Registrations are open on Google Play now: http://bit.ly/PicoTanksPreRegister
For Global and Soft Launch updates subscribe here: http://eepurl.com/dODw0r

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3v3 with Pico Tanks devs today! Bring it on 
3:30pm AEDT (4:30am UTC; 8:30pm PST) Australia, Asia, US West and nearby regions. Jump on our Discord to let us know you're playing: www.picotanks.com/beta

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Pico Tanks Beta Version 18.0 is out! https://www.picotanks.com/changelog/

  Destructible barriers
  Fresh menu background
  Unique SFX for exiting victory, defeat, & draw screens



Play the beta: https://www.picotanks.com/beta/
Pre-Reg: bit.ly/PicoTanksPreRegister (select regions)

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Devs VS Beta Tester matches in just a few hours. All regions! All welcome! Let's go! https://www.picotanks.com/beta
3:30pm AEDT | 4:30am UTC | 8:30pm PST