About SWnEWn
Game created for SteemitJam #4. Game is played directly in the browser and works with mouse and touch. The goal is to collect as many stars as possible, while avoiding the chasing tail of stars that is formed from the stars you collect.
This first release is made to meet the deadline of the jam. I hope to have the time to go back and continue working with it in the coming weeks.
How to play
You click/touch and hold down to move the player. If holding close to the player moves slow, if you hold further away player speeds up.
Power ups
- Purple: Invincible for 5 seconds.
- Green: Freeze the tail for 5 seconds. For 0.5 seconds you can cross the tail without dying.
- Yellow: Scatters the tail for 5 seconds. During this time you are invincible.
- Red: You can eat the tail for 5 seconds. Eat the head and the whole tail is destroyed.
Points
- 1 point for each star.
- 10 points for each power up and section of tail eaten.
- 10 points * all tail sections * multiplier for eating the head. Multiplier increase for each time successfully doing this.
Play & Source
Play the game at itch.io. Please post a comment with your score if you have a go!
Get the source at github.com.
Ending notes
Thanks @loomy for arranging #steemitjam this weekend. Had a superb time doing nothing but this and watching the Bahrain GP (yeah practice 1,2,3 and qualifying as well). All the best to participants of #steemitjam, looking forward to try your stuff tomorrow!
cool mechanics. maybe it's just me but i keep getting confused as to what i should eat or avoid. resulting in deaths i dont understand. but this is great work 👍
Haha, no it is not just you :) I think with proper graphics, proper scale differences and using colors correctly (keep a set for friendly, one set for hostile) it should make it less confusing, at least to a shoot em up level of confusing! And sound! With sounds you could get a lot of help I think.
I have forked the project so working on a new game based on this and should be able to get it clearer.
Thanks for trying and feedback!
Eat red square, run towards tail, turn back to normal the instant I hit the tail and die...
Good job with this. I didn't know you could put browser games on itch.io. I have looked around on there a bit for games to lets play (or just play for myself) but they have always been downloads. Can the stars respawn after being eaten? My partner was going at one attempt on your previous version for quite a while and we were wondering what would happen when there were no stars left.
Hey!
In this version stars will eventually run out. There are 2000 and no more are added.
The plan was to start the game with a black screen, fade in a few stars based on the activity of new posts on the steem blockchain. Then the game would keep adding more stars based on posts and skill of player to increase difficulty. The posts/reputation of poster would be used to decide properties for the stars, power ups and such. Something like that!