Father is a priest with a cannon and a mission from the Pope: the flock has wandered far, and the bus isn't coming. Fire him as far as you can, bounce off everything in sight, and spread the good word along the way.
By jaychugstein · MIT License · Arduboy FX / FX-C (uses the FX flash chip).
Play it in your browser: https://jaychugstein.github.io/Cannon-Father/ (works on phones too)
| Button | What it does |
|---|---|
| Up / Left | Raise the cannon |
| Down / Right | Lower the cannon |
| Outer button | Start, set the aim, fire (hit the top of the power bar for a PERFECT shot) |
| Inner button | Hold in the air to glide (Father spreads his cassock) |
One launch per round, then a Flight Report and back to the start.
After the title, a church bell asks whether you want sound: arrows switch it ON or OFF (it rings DING... DONG, or hangs still: SHHH...), A or B carries on. Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee (Beethoven's Ode to Joy, public domain) plays on the menus and while you aim. In the air, everything he hits makes its own sound: boing, sproing, BOOM, whoosh, splat, pop, coo, DING, a hallelujah for the angel wings, a chime for every soul saved.
On the ground: trampolines, springs, bombs, 30° ramps, ground cannons that relaunch him, updraft fans, mud, hay bales and cactuses.
In the air: stars, balloons, doves, church bells and angel wings.
Every hit knocks bibles loose. A bible that lands in a crowd saves them. Everything is placed randomly for each launch.
The Flight Report shows distance, top speed, max height, air time, flips, bounces, bibles dropped, souls saved, your total and your rank — from Altar Boy all the way up to Saint.
Load release/CannonFather.arduboy with any FX-aware uploader (for example the
Arduboy Web Flasher or the Arduboy-Python-Utilities), or the .hex together
with release/CannonFather-fxdata.bin.
The game is built with ARDUBOY_NO_USB to save space, like most cart games:
to upload something else afterwards, press reset when the uploader asks.
The sketch is in CannonFather/ (game code in game.cpp) and needs the
Arduboy2, ArduboyFX and ArduboyTones libraries.
- Arduino IDE: open
CannonFather/CannonFather.ino, pick an Arduboy board, compile, then uploadCannonFather/fxdata/fxdata.binas the FX data. - Command line:
./build.sh(edit the paths at the top) →build/CannonFather.hex.
All the art (sprites, the animated home screen, the controls screen) is drawn
by Python scripts in art/ and packed into the FX data:
cd art && python3 gen2.py # needs Pillow; rewrites CannonFather/fxdata/ and the headers
docs/ is a small web page that runs the real game file in the
Ardens emulator (MIT, by Peter Brown).
It's served by GitHub Pages from the docs folder.
MIT — see LICENSE. Uses the Arduboy2 (BSD 3-Clause), ArduboyFX (CC0) and
ArduboyTones (BSD 3-Clause) libraries; art/font5x7.py is the Arduboy2 font.