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I wrote this project a while back. You are the gray cannon playing against a untrained neural network. Sometimes it learns quickly how to shoot you (about 6 shots in average), you should shoot it before it.

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Very cool! I was slightly confused when I aimed right at the opponent at full force and was prompted to click to restart. Definitely was a bit more interesting once I stopped doing that. Thanks for sharing.

Are you on a vertical screen? That happens. On a horizontal screen it does not

Almost posted an identical comment. They should have a wall in the way

Good suggestion

Maybe allow projectiles to bounce off the screen edges?

Being able to destroy the environment (eg. craters in the ground) would be cool too.

Can you resize the window mid-game to misdirect the AI?

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