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by joshcrews 4214 days ago
I think someone could have a hit building a flappy-bird clone off this concept.
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In the game Jetpack Joyride, you start with a "machine gun jetpack". http://jetpackjoyride.wikia.com/wiki/Machine_Gun_Jetpack
I was thinking of a sort of violent version of _Up_, in which Carl launches his house by shooting an assortment of machine guns attached to the bottom his house to propel it upwards instead of using balloons.
There's this old split-screen real-time worms clone called liero, it has rifle weapon that allows this in-game.

They play with reload times set to 0, so this is a little extreme, but just to give an idea:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6rfXFyssbE#t=695

This game is great BTW, very playable, strange that nobody did html5 online clone.

He's playing against the ridiculously bad AI in that video. Here's the more impressive "mortars only" style in the LieroX remake:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kx3ivYFY4ig#t=67

I had a couple of years at uni where we played this on LAN in one of the computer labs during every lunch break. We even made some maps!

Maybe not html5, but teeworlds is a free clone with modern graphics and network play.
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