Circle Tank

Circle Tank is a lazy minimalist 2D retro monochrome pixel "arcade" game made with the craptastic GameMaker Studio video game construction kit. It's an ultra simple one-button arcade shooter where the game being made so badly is apparently the chief selling point. You have an ugly 2D retro pixel monochrome tank and one button, that both shoots and turns your tank (in one direction). You can't stop the tank (a bit like a Snake ripoff but more shallow) so you need to turn and avoid walls as well as shoot all the things, etc. A choice was made to use obsolete retro pixel "art" as a substitute for contemporary PC graphics. It's unclear if this is due to lack of budget or talent, regardless, the overall visual quality of the game is extremely low as a result. Resolution is locked and can't be changed, and there's no visual or graphics tweaks, so there's no way to improve the very lazy, mediocre visuals. The developers were so lazy they didn't bother making the game display properly in widescreen, it displays just in a 1:1 square pillarbox. Ugh. The controls can't be customised, which will be an annoyance for many, but it can also render the game unplayable for many differently-abled gamers. These flaws push this game far below minimum acceptable standards for PC. GameMaker Studio is a very poor quality game construction kit, and unsurprisingly results in products that have little to no value as games, especially when compared to the work of professional developers who create genuine products for gamers. Just like you can't make a silk purse from a sow's ear, you can't make a good game from a completely crap game engine. Using a video game construction kit requires little to no talent or skill as a game developer. Very often, GameMaker Studio is used to make shovelware and lazy cash grabs, although this garbage is free. Just because something is free, however, doesn't mean it has value.