Artillery

A retro-style terminal shooting game inspired by 80s/90s arcade classics. A helicopter flies across the top of the screen — move your tank and shoot it down before it escapes.

Gameplay

*** ARTILLERY ***

  [-##-]>                          ← helicopter

       |                           ← bullet



              [==^==]              ← your tank
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• The helicopter flies left to right. If it crosses the screen without being hit, you lose a life.
• Fire your bullet straight up and lead your shot — the bullet takes time to travel, so aim ahead of the helicopter.
• The helicopter speeds up after every hit — each kill makes the next one harder.

Controls

Key	Action
A / ←	Move tank left
D / →	Move tank right
SPACE	Fire
Q	Quit

Build

Requires a C++17 compiler and ncurses.

g++ -std=c++17 -o artillery main.cpp -lncurses
./artillery

On macOS, ncurses ships with Xcode Command Line Tools. On Debian/Ubuntu:

sudo apt install libncurses-dev

Difficulty

The helicopter gains speed with each hit, starting slow and capping at maximum after two hits.

Hits taken	speed_interval	Effect
0	3	moves every 3 ticks
1	2	moves every 2 ticks
2+	1	moves every tick (max)