You are the white ball. Move with the mouse, and explode yourself with the
left mouse button. There are no other controls.
Red balls are the basic enemy. Explode yourself
next to them to blow them
up, and try to make chain reactions to blow up as many red balls as
possible with each explosion. Every time you explode, you lose 5 seconds.
If a red ball touches you, you automatically explode and also lose 10
seconds. If a chain reaction is already occuring, you can not explode
yourself, but you can still be exploded by red balls. This will add to any
chain that's already happening, and can be used to your advantage.
Green balls are created when you blow up red
balls. Green balls cannot
hurt you, and can not be blown up, but when they reach the edge of the
screen they wrap around as red balls. During boss fights, green balls will
attack the boss, which is the only way to hurt it.
Purple balls can hurt you, but you can NOT
hurt them. Like green balls,
they turn red when they wrap around the edge of the screen. Purple balls
are fired by bosses, and by falling stars. If you see a falling star, get
out of its way.
You gain an extra 5 seconds every time your score is greater than the cube
of the total number of extra 5 seconds you've gained since the last boss
plus the level. If that sounds complicated, just remember that you'll gain
more time the more points you get.
You gain an extra 10 seconds every time there's a falling star. You do not
have to "catch" the star to get the bonus.
You gain an extra 50 seconds every time you defeat a boss.
The game ends when you run out of time.
Notes:
This is the prototype of a game that I will be working on for XBox Live
Arcade. It was inspired by a free doujin game called Every Extend.
Go check it out. Most of the SFX were also taken from Every Extend. The
music is by Paul Starr who will
probably also be doing all the music for the "real" version.
I'm particularly happy with the fact that there's absolutely no randomness
in the game; everything that happens is directly affected by your actions,
and if you do the exact same thing every time, you will always end
up with the same score. This means that although it's possible to do well
through luck alone, skill is much more reliable and will consistently
succeed, and there's no such thing as just being "dealt a bad hand" by a
random number generator.
Revision History:
v0.5: Replaced all of the sound effects borrowed from Every Extend
with original and/or public domain sound effects.
v0.41: Also by popular demand, added a "best chain" report under "final
score" at the end of each game.
v0.4: By popular demand, added a pause (which is disabled during boss
fights) and a music on/off toggle.
v0.31: Changed the star bonus back to 10 seconds from 20. What was I
thinking?? I think this is the final version of the prototype.
v0.3: Added last 3 bosses (for a total of 8). Changed starting time back
to 100 seconds (from 50, which it was in v0.25). Made third boss's
movement wavy. Fixed a bug in the fifth boss. Changed star bonus to 20
seconds instead of 10.
v0.25: Added flash when boss dies, and warning when time is running out.
Added a fifth boss. Added 10 second bonus whenever a star falls. Removed
chain limit. Changed boss kill bonus to 50 seconds instead of 100.
Modified third boss to move back and forth.
v0.2: Merged lives and time. Set total_score to update constantly, not
just at the end of each boss fight. Some other minor edits.
v0.1s: Added the star that falls every 1000
points when there isn't a boss.
v0.1: Added two more bosses (for a total of four). Split score into "level
score" and "total score"; bosses now appear when level_score>1000*level,
and level score gets tallied into total score and resets after every boss
fight. Other various minor tweaks.
v0.0: Added music.
vβ26k: Complete beta, only 26k. Two bosses. Bosses appear when
score^3>1000*level, which made it almost impossible to get to the third boss.