DOM VIRUSby coded.design
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Sherman Bytes 0.5
Build your line on a phone.

Sherman Bytes 0.5 brings the whole game to phones. Drive with a joystick, hold Fire, and tap to build cover, pillboxes and mines. Battles now have sound. Sherman Bytes is the pixel tank game that plays on a live webpage: breach button bases, build cover, hold the page.

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What's new for players

Phones get the full defensive line. Cover, Pillbox and Mine sit beside the drive and fire controls as 3D arcade buttons that act on press.

Movement is an analog joystick with eight-way drive. You can drive and hold Fire at the same time. Fire is the round crosshair button from DOM Battlefield.

Battles have synthesized sound cues. The scoreboard shares its controls with the other games: sound, pause or resume, minimize and Recall.

Direct hits still clear letters into faint binary rubble, and Recall still gives the page back.

For developers

The new controls come from the shared DOM VIRUS runtime, snapshot 0.21.0. The gzip budget grew by 2 KB to pay for them and now sits at 28,000 bytes.

Structure counts no longer build temporary snapshot arrays. Setup, configuration and integration examples live in the repository README.

0.5.2current release (25 October 2026)
27.0 kBgzip, complete game + engine
28.0 kBenforced gzip budget
32enemy tank cap
120pooled shells
3buildable defenses

Built from Sherman Bytes The same tanks, two board games.

  1. DOM Battlefield

    Same tanks, a whole platoon. Plan every route, then command your squad under fire.

    Play DOM Battlefield

  2. Battlefield Blitz

    Same tanks, every crew for itself. Parachute in, call airstrikes, most kills wins.

    Play Battlefield Blitz
READDOM Battlefield 0.18: go-live, plan cards and full screenDOM Battlefield 0.18 adds order pills on plan cards, your tank's real orders, bigger phone planning keys and its own site. 67.6 kB gzip.READBattlefield Blitz 0.6: surrender, results and phone fixesBattlefield Blitz 0.6 adds the surrender pause, STAGE CLEAR and INSERT COIN results, and roomier phone start screens. 34.5 kB gzip on Fizlet.READDOM VIRUS 0.46: Battlefield Blitz is playable, meet FizletDOM VIRUS 0.46 marks Battlefield Blitz as playable on the coming-soon page and names the shared engine Fizlet, released as version 0.2.