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It's a FPS with jumping tanks. Grab flags on the ground and get special abilities.

The main gameplay element is that when a tank is in the air it keeps its rotational momentum and you have no way to correct the trajectory mid air. Sometimes you have to jump and aim on the right or even backwards and this all gets down to injecting the exact quantity of movement prior to the jump with the mouse (a nice addition beyond the classical pointing mechanics of FPS).

Tanks can't tilt, but hopefully they can jump, so another saillent part of the gameplay are mid-air duels, when two tanks facing each other start firing, jump to avoid the slow-moving orbs, and carry the fight into the air.

It looks like a caricature, but it has great mechanics that could make a good basis for an e-sport. If e-sports are introduced into the Olympic Games and they decide to look for an open-source game, BZFlag would be a good contender.

Web pages? Those'll never catch on if you ask me. The package info seems clear enough:

  $ dnf info bzflag | sed 's/^/  /'
  Last metadata expiration check: 0:00:29 ago on Thu 31 Oct 2019 22:24:31 GMT.
  Available Packages
  Name         : bzflag
  Version      : 2.4.18
  Release      : 3.fc30
  Architecture : x86_64
  Size         : 11 M
  Source       : bzflag-2.4.18-3.fc30.src.rpm
  Repository   : fedora
  Summary      : 3D multi-player tank battle game
  URL          : http://bzflag.org
  License      : LGPLv2
  Description  : BZFlag is a 3D multi-player tank battle game  that  allows users
               : to play against each other in a networked environment.  There are
               : five teams: red, green, blue, purple and rogue (rogue tanks are
               : black).  Destroying a player on another team  scores a win, while
               : being destroyed or destroying a teammate scores a loss.  Rogues
               : have no teammates (not even other rogues), so they cannot shoot
               : teammates and they do not have a team score. There are two main
               : styles of play: capture-the-flag and free-for-all.

Alternatively, a 90's style site in keeping with the aesthetics of the game would be cool in its way.

Thanks for the feedback. I added a short tagline to the top of the homepage.

> going strong since 2008!" (or whenever the project started)

It's not immediately clear from the site, but it might surprise people to learn BZFlag was first released in 1993. (And is based on an arcade game from 1980.)

> "An open source tank-based warfare game with online multiplayer, going strong since 2008!" (or whenever the project started)

1992, FYI. Same year as Wolfenstein 3D. Not sure what the original graphics looked like, but I know it was first person. It probably had line polygons like Battlezone, the arcade game that inspired it.

Not correcting you just to seem smart, I genuinely think it's interesting that the game is that old and still active.

"Free multi-player 3D tank battle game for Windows, Linux, and macOS" is front and center on the home page.

This was added in response to this comment.