Help
How can we help?
Answers to the questions grown-ups ask most, help getting two phones to play together, and how to reach us.
Questions grown-ups ask
Are the games out yet?
Not yet. Tanklings WW2 and Tanklings MBT are both heading for Google Play, for Android phones.
Are they war games?
They’re toy games. Both turn real tank designs into chunky toys that bonk each other with cartoon shots, with no blood and no people.
In Tanklings WW2, two battlefields are real places from 1944, each with a short, gentle note about what you can still see there today.
Are there ads?
No. Neither game has ads.
Is there chat, or play with strangers?
No. Neither game has chat or online play with strangers. Play together only joins two phones on the same Wi-Fi.
Do the games collect my child’s data?
No. Neither game has accounts, and neither collects personal data. In Tanklings WW2, progress is saved on the phone.
What ages are the games for?
Children aged about 6 to 10, playing on their own or alongside a grown-up. Neither game has an official age rating yet.
Does Tanklings WW2 need the internet?
No. It plays without the internet. Buying a pack needs a connection.
How do you unlock tanks in Tanklings WW2?
You start with six early-war tanks, one from each country. Every finished match earns coins, and coins unlock the mid-war and late-war tanks, one step at a time along each country’s line. Everything can be unlocked just by playing, in about ten hours.
Can my child buy things by accident in Tanklings WW2?
Before the shop opens, a grown-up check asks for the answer to a sum written in words, and Google Play’s own purchase confirmation follows. Coins can’t be bought, and nothing is random.
Both games
Two phones won’t find each other?
Play together needs two phones on the same Wi-Fi (in Tanklings WW2, one phone’s hotspot works too). Then try these, one at a time.
- Host on one, join on the other. Open the same Tanklings game on the other phone and tap Host a game. On this phone, tap Join a game.
- Check the Wi-Fi. Both phones need to be on the same Wi-Fi. Some guest or public Wi-Fi networks stop phones seeing each other, so a home network is best.
- No Wi-Fi? In Tanklings WW2, use a hotspot. Turn on the hotspot on one phone and join it from the other phone’s Wi-Fi settings, then try again.
- Update both phones. Both phones need the same version of the game. Update it on each phone from Google Play.
- Only two at a time. A game takes two players. If it says the game already has two players, host a new one.
- If a phone drops out. The game waits for it to come back. If a player leaves the match, a bot takes over their tank.
Tanklings WW2
Getting a pack back
Google Play keeps your purchases, so a pack comes back if you reinstall the game on the same Google account.
- Check the phone’s Google Play is signed in to the Google account that bought the pack.
- Open the game while the phone is online, so Google Play can tell it which packs were bought.
- Still missing? Email us and tell us which pack it was. Purchases are made and processed by Google Play, so we never see card details, names or email addresses.
Talk to us
Email is the way to reach us.
Tanklings Games is a business of Tri Alliance Pty Ltd, PO Box 347, Moorabbin VIC 3189, Australia.
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