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Published: 2007-03-21 20:19:02 +0000 UTC; Views: 3091; Favourites: 23; Downloads: 84
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This will be my final test program for now.I have taken the bombs yet another step further. You can now fire them from a cannon!
Use the arrow keys to set your angle and velocity (this took a bit of fuzzy maths to work right)
Press the Space bar when you are ready to shoot.
You can also click the five buttons on the left (or use keys 1 - 5) to change the border effects.
And while you're playing with my cannon, see how many targets you can hit!
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Yeah, kind of a known bug that comes up if you manage to score a double-kill with one shot there.
And of course, the target placement is random.
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Well, is it really a bug if it makes sense?
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. . . I don't know... 
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Another cool thing I found is that, if you set the walls to any setting but Concrete, set the Velocity to 100%, and keep turning the gun and firing rapidly, you get an experience rather like what machine-gunners got during World War I - that is, you're shooting fish in a barrel, it feels awesome, but your accuracy is terrible.
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Heh, yeah - part of this prototype's purpose was to let me test out the walls... including Flubber!
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There's actually a fun game of Russian Roulette you can play on the Cannon Wars game - set the walls to Wrap-Around, use Super Nukes, set the winds at "Hurricane", point the cannons straight up, set the velocity to 100%, and shoot.
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Heh, heh... there's an idea!
Often, at the end of "no wind" game, I'd shoot a nuke straight up - of course, it comes straight down!
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In order to perfect the Russian Roulette, I had to use the laser to set the cannons to the proper velocity without doing damage in the first round. Once all of the cannons matched, I just launched all eight Nukes and waited.
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The first run of it was a perfect metaphor for actual nuclear warfare - nobody won.
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After that the winners were pretty random.
By the way, you know how occasionally the game comes up with perfectly flat terrain? Very easy to mop up with a Laser in that kind of situation.
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I made a few basic generic terrain types, using the brush tool, that the game chooses randomly on start-up - of course, that included the nearly flat one!
And indeed, I know how easy it is to clean up those rounds with a laser-cannon... provided the angle is absolutely right, of course! Glancing shots only cause partial damage.
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Also, the laser can be kind of a jerk move if you set the power just right. More than once I've left a CPU with exactly 1% health left. Only once has that CPU come back to kill me.
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I wouldn't have thought a CPU could kill anybody else with his health at 1%, since that would keep his velocity down to a bare minimum.
Usually, when cannons are down to that kind of level, they can do little more than commit hara-kiri!
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The wind was pretty strong, so it carried the bomb over to my cannon.
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Whoa... talk about bad luck!
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Eh, it was entertaining.
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sweet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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this is so cool! i could play on it for ages! ^_^
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Heh, cool! 
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no problem! ^^ by the way i was looking at some of your other flash stuff and there really good, i cant wait to see more from you so im gonna watch you!!
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Thanks a lot! 
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Nice work! I wouldn't have expected this sort of thing to appear on deviantART.
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Thanks very much!
Yeah, I know there are a few interactive Flash animations and games here anyway, but I've only really "experimented" myself.
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Awesome game!
"While you're playing with my cannon..." XD
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Thanks very much! Good practice for Cannon Wars, too...
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That gives some interesting results... especially on Wrap-Around...
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yup! then I tried sniping. Overall, an excellent game (which I guess led to the creation of cannon wars?)! 
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This was the prototype, yes!
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Have u ever thought of doing 1 with moving targets? either side-to-side or towards u, at various speed, possibaly with customisable cannons (like here, a medievil cannon, a star wars laser cannon thingy, and others), targets (here, tie fighters, and stuff) and backgrounds (space and underwater and stuff)?
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I hadn't thought of that... but good ideas...
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This game is a lot of fun
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Aha, you have found the weakness in my accuracy code!
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed the game!
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very kewl target prctice mate, seems to be never-ending. And i found a way how to hit the harder targets. You select wrap around and shoot it to the left and before it hits the ground, quickly switch to flubber.
nice 1 mate.
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Crafty trick...
Yeah, the targets are programmed to reset themselves indefinitely... just keep shooting till you've had enough, basically.
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is the .fla available for those that would like to see a working template ...
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I usually keep all my .fla's stored. When I'm finished with them, they go into a zip folder, leaving just the swf to play at my whim.
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WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWW WWWWWWWWWW!!!
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My first impression when I discovered those cool ActionScripts...
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Through FlashKit.com. There were tutorials there to help me understand them and I built on them.
First it was the duplicateMovieClip() and removeMovieClip() commands, and then attachMovie()
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