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Spherical Snake

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Re: Spherical Snake

#41
This reminds me of an idea I had a few days ago. Imagine a world where speed of light:

- is small compared to human level speeds (say 2km/h / 1.25mph)

- things could move faster than the speed of light.

I really wonder how it would feel to explore this world visually. For example:

- an object in front of me accelerates from 0 to above the speed of light

- I'm in a car, looking backwards, going from 0 to above the speed of light

I guess one could easily simulate that in a virtual world, no?

Re: Spherical Snake

#42

This reminds me of an idea I had a few days ago. Imagine a world where speed of light: - is small compared to human level speeds (say 2km/h / 1.25mph) - things could move faster than the speed of light. I really wonder how it would feel to explore this world visually. For example: - an object in front of me accelerates from 0 to above the speed of light - I'm in a car, looking backwards, going from 0 to above the spe…

Enjoy :)

https://gamelab.mit.edu/games/a-slower-speed-of-light/

Re: Spherical Snake

#43
For a new kind of snake game, check out PluriSnake.

PluriSnake is a snake-based color matching daily puzzle game.

Color matching is used in two ways: (1) matching circles creates snakes, and (2) matching a snake’s color with the squares beneath it destroys them.

Snakes, but not individual circles, can be moved by snaking to squares of matching color, as long as their paths are not blocked by other snakes.

The goal is to score as highly as you can. Destroying all the squares is not required for your score to count.

Of course, there is more to it than that as you will see.

Try it out:

https://testflight.apple.com/join/mJXdJavG

Any feedback would be appreciated. Have fun!

Re: Spherical Snake

#44
post #10

The game looks really good, although I think it'd be improved if the sphere was a bit smaller. It feels like it takes too long for the game to become difficult

Agree - my millennial brain got bored quickly and it was still very easy.

Re: Spherical Snake

#46
For a multiplayer spherical tron-like experience check out Astro Bears, it’s a great little party game!

Re: Spherical Snake

#49

Lovely. Would love if it canvas was bigger on desktop. Zoomed in 3x is much better but pix-elated. The first 50 or so levels were very easy. Started getting difficult around 90+.

This should work: function scale(multi) { cnv = document.getElementsByTagName('canvas')[0]; cnv.width = 358 * multi; cnv.height = 360 * multi; window.focalLength = 200 * multi; window.init(); } scale(4);
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