Interview with a Fruitbat

So Last Gen, who earlier did a review on War of the Human Tanks by the tile of I love the Smell of Napalm in the Morning asked us for an interview. We had fun answering their questions about the secrets behind the Fruitbats.

For your eyes only: Interview with a Dev: Fruitbat Factory.

Fruitbat Photo

They even published some photos of us, though this one seems a little obstructed.

Also, another stage of the five-chapter “Let’s Play” guide for War of the Human Tanks is now up. This time it might even be helpful!

Where can you find it, you ask?

As usual, the guide can be found at: Chapter 4: ‘Kana Was Awesomely Awesome’

Human Tanks Fight On

You’re walking down Steam Greenlight, clicking “YES” on War of the Human Tanks as you pass, and then, suddenly… WHAM-O! FREE STEAM KEYS FOR EVERYONE!

That’s right, once War of the Human Tanks gets on Steam, everyone who’s purchased the game from any of our distributors will receive a free Steam Key for it as well!

WotHT Greenlight Promo 3

Human Tanks, Charge!
Your target: Steam!

How can you support us?
-Purchase a copy of War of the Human Tanks from the distributor of your choice. Your choices are: Indievania, Desura, GamersGate and Green Man Gaming.
-Vote for War of the Human Tanks on Steam Greenlight.
-Tell your friends, family and everyone you hold at gunpoint.
-Once War of the Human Tanks is on Steam, you will receive a key at no additional cost.

In other news, Chapter 3 of the “Let’s Play” Guide for War of the Human Tanks has gone live. Share the miserable struggle at Chapter 3: ‘The Aoba Troop Did Their Best’!

Know Your Aspects

And now for something completely different.

In these post release days where we are finally receiving some much appreciated feedback from the players, I would like to talk to you regarding something that we’ve received questions about and noticed on some of YouTube videos and screenshots of the game.

The Aspect Ratio

War of the Human Tanks uses a 4:3 aspect ratio, which means it is not widescreen (16:9 or 16:10 aspect ratio). In order to play it or any other games you have that use a 4:3 aspect ratio without getting horribly stretched in Full Screen Mode, you need to enable a simple setting in your graphic card’s options. Why this setting is turned off by default ever remains a mystery.

But first let’s look at what I’m talking about. First screenshot is how our game is supposed to look and second is how it turns out without enabling the correct setting.

WotHT Screenshot with correct 4:3 aspect ratio

WotHT Screenshot with correct 4:3 aspect ratio

WotHT Screenshot with wrong stretched result

WotHT Screenshot with incorrect aspect ratio

Enabling a simple option will save you from suffering this horrible stretching. I have an NVIDIA card, so I’ll describe how to do this for NVIDIA cards. If you have something else, the process should be mostly similar.

First, right click on an empty space on your desktop and choose NVIDIA Control Panel to open the settings window. You can alternatively open this window by typing NVIDIA on the Search Bar after pressing the Windows key. With current drivers it will look like this:

NVIDIA settings for aspect ratio

NVIDIA settings for aspect ratio

On this window, navigate to the shown tab. Display > Adjust desktop size and position > Scaling.

If you see that “Full-screen” is checked like this: then you are going to see all games that are not wide-screen stretched, apart from a few that compensate against that problem.

What you need to do to fix this is to pick the choice above it, “Aspect ratio”. Also do not forget to set Perform scaling on: GPU. Other settings on this screen don’t matter.

When you follow these instructions, there will be no change to your widescreen applications. Non-widescreen applications, however, will now display in their correct proportions.

Incoming!

With the release of War of the Human Tanks so close by, I can’t help posting again. Lets start with the new artwork from Angie (@9aia), presenting Choko from War of the Human Tanks.

Choko is always full of energy!

Since we’ve been getting some questions about what we will be selling and where, here’s a recap of our release schedule on 14th.

War of the Human Tanks, the game itself, will be sold for $9.99. Sound of the Human Tanks I, the first soundtrack compilation, will be sold for $3.99. And War of the Human Tanks Deluxe, containing both the game and soundtrack, will be sold for $11.99.

Of course, we are selling the Deluxe bundle for $9.99 for as long as the pre-orders last.

War of the Human Tanks and War of the Human Tanks Deluxe will be available from Desura. War of the Human Tanks, Sound of the Human Tanks I and War of the Human Tanks Deluxe will be available from Gamersgate. War of the Human Tanks will also be available from Indievania, and Sound of the Human Tanks I will be available separately from Bandcamp.

Green Man Gaming will feature War of the Human Tanks soon after.

And with your support on Steam Greenlight, War of the Human Tanks, Sound of the Human Tanks I and War of the Human Tanks Deluxe will be available on Steam one day as well.

Note: The prices may vary slightly depending on your region.

“Fun, Fast, Intense Action”

Just three days away from release. It’s starting to almost feel real.

Angie (@9aia) surprised us with another smiting illustration of Liselotte from War of the Human Tanks.

Liselotte is clearly worrying about all the things that could and probably will go wrong.
Stay strong, Liselotte!

We also received a new review by Matthew Kim at Twinfinite, from whence this post’s tagline comes.

“If you’re a military buff with a thing for anime then you’ll definitely be interested in War of the Human Tanks.”

Liselotte recommends reading the full review here.

Human Tanks Home in

It’s an exciting week for us with the release date for War of the Human Tanks finally just ahead: September 14th, this Friday.

To celebrate the approaching occasion, here’s an absolutely gorgeous art piece by Angie (@9aia) of Heshiko and Choko from War of the Human Tanks. It made us really happy! You can view this and a bonus Liselotte illustration on our forums’ Fan Art section.

The “Let’s Play” guide at http://fruitbatfactory.com/humantanks/guides.html has been updated with Episode 2, check it out, especially if you’ve already played the demo or are struggling with it.

Demo Squad Go!


The surviving Shock Tanks report that a demo version of War of the Human Tanks has appeared in several locations. Scout Tanks confirm the sightings at GamersGate and Desura as of this moment. Stay tuned for more updates on the situation!


Desura Digital Distribution
In other news, the Guides section for War of the Human Tanks has gone live with the first part of the guide. Rumors say that other sections will be added soon.


Meanwhile, the war goes on. Human Tanks are fighting a brave battle on Steam Greenlight. It’s great to see the community response there. Enlist now to join the war effort!


All new Human Tanks are welcome to join our forums to discuss the ongoing war.

Release the sounds!

Sound of the Human Tanks I, the first part of the Human Tanks OST Trilogy, is now released!

Here are details about the OST:

Sound of the Human Tanks I has 30 tracks totaling 71 minutes of game music and is a part of a soundtrack trilogy featuring tracks from the first two games in the Human Tanks, Charge! series, War of the Human Tanks and Alter.

Sampling-Sound and DeZI:R have prepared the Sound of the Human Tanks OST for Yakiniku Banzai, featuring the vocal talents of Phan Masaki, Miya Oribe, Kotone Yukino, Light Ageha and Mai.k.

The standalone OST is available for purchase from Bandcamp.com for €4. To help you make up your mind, you can listen to all the tracks in full on the site for free.

In related news, we are proud to present a War of the Human Tanks Deluxe which comes with Sound of the Human Tanks I. Everyone who preorders the game will be given the Deluxe edition at no additional charge. You can preorder by following the links below:

Desura Digital Distribution

Sortie Order


We are proud to announce that the day is at hand, War of the Human Tanks is being released 14 September 2012! Initially it will be available from Desura, Gamersgate and Indievania for $9.99 (or equivalent).

A demo fully featuring the first five chapters will be available 4 September 2012. You will be able to carry over your saves from the demo to the full game. So don’t hold yourself back, play it a couple of times, experiment with different results in battles, gather some supplies, develop and build different units and modules…

To celebrate this wondrous occasion Indieviddy prepared the new trailer you saw on top of this post, hope you like it.

Desura Digital Distribution

WotHT Bonus Maps

With the game’s release date approaching, we’ve had some more free time in our hands (controversial yes, I know). Naturally, we’ve put it to good use.
Following a good tradition, we at Fruitbat Factory wanted to add something unique to our English release of War of the Human Tanks. After deliberation we ended up adding two bonus battle maps because designing them is so addictive that we couldn’t stop at just one.

With the addition of these two maps War of the Human Tanks now has more than thirty maps! (Well, thirty one to be exact, but you didn’t hear this from me.)

Clearing a route in WotHT unlocks extra Free Battles in addition to the storyline maps you have cleared. These maps tend to be considerably more spicy then the normal maps, and are intended for the players looking for a bigger challenge. They are completely optional of course. The two new maps will appear alongside these bonus maps as you clear one of the game’s several endings and let you put your survival skills to test for the coming Fruitbat Apocalypse. They are not intended as the most difficult maps in the game, but should be quite different from the previous ones and present the player with new sort of strategic dilemmas.

Happy hunting!

We prepared a bunch of screenshots to help you assess the… wait, what, one got out?!
Stop it before…!