Devlog: Iron breaker

From first prototype to public demo in 6 days. (16.Oct – 22.Oct)

First public demo is out. Free, plays in the browser on phone and desktop.

Fire button forgiveness: a thumb that lands just off the fire button still fires and keeps your locked target. Before, a miss dropped you onto the map and lost the lock.
A small hidden credit is painted somewhere in two missions. Find it.

Title screen and logo. The game opens on the Iron Breaker logo over security-camera views of the battlefield.
Live-feed backdrop behind every menu: three pixel-art scenes cutting through black, scanlines, a REC light, game version, a military date-time group and a satellite scan readout that never sits still.
New menu music, looped with no audible seam.
Ending box after mission 10, with a “play again from scratch” option, also found in the Career screen.
Level 1 to 10 are unlocked one at a time, with campaign comic cards that reveal as you progress.
Itch build hides the test tools. Zoom, AI level, FPS, pixel mode, enemy range rings and the off-screen arrows stay in your hands.

Full sound pass: cannons, machine guns, impacts, explosions, engines (the APC has its own), rain, thunder, flares, air raid warnings.
An onboard AI voice calls out drones, low armour, kill streaks, reinforcements and mission results. One line at a time, never talking over itself.
Mission key art for all 10 levels, shown on the briefing. A story intro for the training ground.
Campaign screen: tap an unlocked mission to go straight to its briefing.
Tuned from playtesting: quieter warnings, no more repeated “air support ready”, rain half as loud.

Recruit training: eight coached stations on a desert range, skippable.
Night missions with moonlight, headlight cones, street lamps (some broken) and flares for you and the enemy.
Rain and lightning. Fog and sandstorms were tried and cut: they made the game too hard.
Voxel vehicles: Tiger I, 8×8 APC, Panzer IV, tank destroyers, technicals, supply trucks, rendered from 3D voxel models.
Field guide with a blueprint-style armour diagram and every enemy vehicle.
All text in one language file, ready for translation.
Lighting pass: blast and muzzle-flash light, baked ambient occlusion, drifting cloud shadows.

10 missions: destroy, capture, hold, escort, co-op assault and a multi-stage finale across city, harbour, desert and highlands.
Desert levels with rammable mud houses, sand ridges that hide you and slow you, oases.
A-10 air support, charged by kills, plus air-dropped missiles and spare drones.
Kill streaks and a WoT-Blitz-style icon HUD.
Player stats and a career record.
Fixed the drive stick on iOS (touch IDs can be negative there).

Tactical AI in three tiers: from “spread out and surround” up to using cover, flanking and hunting.
Anti-tank infantry hiding inside houses, and kamikaze drone swarms.
Real-world scale (5 px = 1 m) for the first city; vehicles ram through low walls and trees.
Upgrades, repair kits, repair stations and companions (drones and robots).

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