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Build it yourself: a trail

What we are doing

Now it's your turn, without code to copy: after your shot, a dotted line of small dots stays on screen to show where it flew, until your next shot.

Your turn

Remember the shell's positions during your shot, and draw a small dot at every few of them.

Skills: Drawing on a canvas, Arrays and objects

All steps

  1. The ground
  2. Hills
  3. Two tanks
  4. The barrel
  5. The game loop
  6. Aim
  7. Angle and power
  8. Fire!
  9. Flight
  10. Boom
  11. Craters
  12. Falling tanks
  13. Damage
  14. Taking turns
  15. The computer's shot
  16. Hitting a tank
  17. Win or lose
  18. Wind
  19. The computer aims
  20. Aim with the mouse
  21. Drag and let go
  22. The atan2 trap
  23. Build it yourself: a trail