Cannon Duel

🎮 About This Game

Cannon Duel is old-school artillery warfare with the volume turned up: two cannons dug into opposite ends of a neon mountain range, taking turns to loft shells over the peaks. Every shot is three decisions squeezed into a few seconds — barrel angle, how long you dare to hold the power charge, and how much you trust the wind arrows at the top of the screen. The terrain is fully destructible: every explosion bites a crater out of the mountain, cannons sink into the holes blasted beneath them, and by the endgame the tidy landscape you started with is a cratered moonscape with new firing lines through it. Three hearts each, one heart per hit, no second chances on a shell that flies long. Play solo against three CPU gunners or hand a friend the other half of the keyboard for the classic hot-seat duel.

🎯 How to Play

On your turn, aim your barrel with ← → (it swings between nearly flat and nearly vertical), then hold Space to charge the power bar and release to fire. Longer hold = faster shell = longer flight; the bar tops out in about a second and a half. Watch the WIND indicator before every shot — it changes each turn, pushes your shell sideways for its whole flight, and turns red when it is strong enough to bend a lazy lob off target completely. A shell that lands within the blast radius of a cannon takes one heart (yes, including your own cannon — mind the short lobs). Explosions also carve real craters: terrain that blocked a shot last turn may be gone this turn. Each turn has a 15-second clock, and if it runs out your cannon fires at whatever you had dialed in. In 2-player, Player 1 aims with A/D and holds Space; Player 2 aims with ← → and holds /. Three hits wins. P pauses, R restarts, Esc returns to the menu.

💡 Tips & Strategy

• ▸Bracket like a real gunner: fire, watch where the shell lands, and correct your power by the miss distance. Two disciplined corrections put your third shell on target — panicked full-power swings never converge.
• ▸Read the wind BEFORE you charge. A strong tailwind can add roughly a full extra crater-width to your range, so shave power when the arrows point at your target and add it when they point away.
• ▸High arcs (65 degrees and up) clear the mountain from anywhere, but they hang in the wind longer and drift the most. Flat shots are wind-resistant but need a clear line — after a few craters open up the ridge, flat becomes a real option.
• ▸Use the terrain as a weapon. You cannot shoot through the mountain, but you can shoot AT it: carve the peak down turn by turn and open a direct line for your flatter, more accurate shots.
• ▸The enemy sinking into a crater is not always good news for them — a cannon at the bottom of a pit is harder to splash but also more trapped. Land your next shell on the rim above and let the blast radius reach down.
• ▸Never fire a mid-power shot at a high angle while the wind blows toward you: that is the classic self-hit. If the wind is against you, commit to power or aim flatter.
• ▸In our playtests the Normal CPU hit about one shot in three, so you can out-shoot it just by bracketing calmly. Hard reads the wind perfectly and lands roughly three of four — against it, your only edge is hitting first and never wasting a turn.

❓ Frequently Asked Questions