Cranky Cannon was a game that I had wanted to make for a while. From a young age, I was fascinated by mechanical devices. But, there was one item in a museum that I grew up with that has really stuck in my head – an anti-aircraft gun. It was in a mining museum, but it also covered how the iron mines influenced WWII. The gun was part of that display. To make it even better, you could sit in the gun and operate cranks to turn the base and adjust the elevation.
The physical controls fascinated me, so I decided to create a game that mimicked that idea – thus Cranky Cannon was born.
If you have an Apple device feel free to take a look. One crank operates the elevation and the other sets the power for the gun. Yes, all the gears turn when you operate the crank. The game involves many sound effects – including a bit of layering of different sounds to give the gears even more life.
