Stupid Sized Tank

Current alpha · unretouched

First-person tank combat on real physics.

Enemies show up smarter every mission. They have leaders. They have morale. They break or rally based on what you do to them. The battlefield is different every time — badlands, city streets, dunes. Your starting tank is a hazard mostly to itself. Every mission you survive buys upgrades that walk it closer to being a hazard to them.

Exterior view: the tank under artillery fire as enemy infantry advance through a pine forest — **Exterior camera**Artillery inbound · 1 / 26

Urban map at dusk: enemy spotters on a rooftop balcony — **Urban, dusk**Spotters on the balconies

Cockpit view: the coaxial machine gun hits an enemy soldier at 2x zoom — **Cockpit**7.62 mm coax · 2× optic

On foot after bailing out: rifle raised in a city alley, extraction 132 m away — **Bailed out**132 m to extraction

Night city firefight with tracers and a shell in flight — **Urban firefight**Tracers · shell in flight

An enemy tank on a forest floor between pines — **Treeline**Contact

The title screen: a development ledger of tank marks, enemy silhouettes and ordnance — **Title screen**Prototype lineage Mk.0 → Mk.?

Core systems

The machine gets worse before it gets better.

The upgrade loop

Every mission degrades the tank and rewards you with points to make it less terrible. Wheels, tracks, cannons, drones, railguns — the distance between the starting machine and the endgame machine is the whole game.

First-person cockpit

You see what the crew sees. Instruments, viewports, chaos. Toggle to an exterior view to inspect your tank or read the battlefield — not to fight from.

Enemy morale

Kill enough of a force and they break. Kill their commander and they scatter. While that commander is alive and close, they hold and fight harder. No two fights play out the same.

Bob

Your crewman. Repairman. Master gunner. He levels up across missions. Keep Bob alive.

Bail out

When the tank is done, you might not be. Fight on foot, find friendly lines, climb into a rescue chopper, drive home in someone else's tank.

Randomized biomes

Same terrain rules every time — badlands, city streets, dunes — different layout every mission.

Tactics

Hull-down positions. Concealment. Cover. The tank is enormous and obvious; terrain is the difference between making it home and not.

Medals

Do something stupid enough to survive, get a medal for it. Commendations for the moments you'll be telling someone about later.

Development roadmap

10 sprints. ~29 weeks. Two ship gates.

01Tank chassis, cockpit & exterior view
02Core weapons & combat loop
03Enemy AI & morale system
04Procedural battlefield generation
05Upgrade tree & Bob
06Bail-out, foot combat & advanced tactics
07Asset pass
08Polish passitch.io release
09Late-game upgrade tier
10Steam releaseWindows + Mac

Footage · two full playthroughs

Raw captures. Real engine. Real physics.

First contactPlaythrough 1 · 0:48–1:06

Enemy tank destroyedPlaythrough 2 · 1:04–1:22

On footPlaythrough 2 · 2:16–2:32

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One person. One stupid tank.

Grana Game Studios is a one-person studio based in Washington, DC. If you'd like to help get Stupid Sized Tank out of the garage and onto your screen, any amount goes directly toward development — assets, tools, and the occasional energy drink that makes the bad ideas start sounding good.

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