Tread Marks

Tread Marks
Developer(s)	Longbow Digital Arts
Publisher(s)	Longbow Digital Arts
Designer(s)	Seumas McNally
Platform(s)	Windows
Release	January 14, 2000
Genre(s)	Tank Combat/Racing
Mode(s)	Single Player, Online Multiplayer

Tread Marks is a 3D, third-person perspective, multiplayer-focused tank combat and racing computer game developed by Independent video game developer Longbow Digital Arts. The game won the 2000 Independent Games Festival grand prize, later renamed to the Seumas McNally Grand Prize in honor of the game's lead programmer who died on 21 March 2000, after receiving the award. A notable feature of the game is fully deformable terrain.

You are in control of an artificially intelligent tank, that along with its fellow AI tanks, has decided to abandon its human masters and just go have some fun.

The tanks come in two varieties: steel and liquid. The steel tanks resemble real-life tanks, while the liquid types are whimsical fantasy tanks. Weapons and power-ups are scattered around the maps, and range in destructive power from light machine guns to tactical nuclear missiles.

The game features three gameplay modes:

The race and battle modes can be played in either team or single-player mode. Tread Marks can be played over a LAN, or over the Internet and includes a program for running a dedicated game server, which lists the computer it runs from on the master server. The master server in turn is operated by Longbow Digital Arts from a location in Toronto, Canada. Many modifications can be found online, including new maps, tanks, and weapons.

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