Thanks. The green mushrooms cause the centipedes to go down a row and change direction. The magenta mushrooms cause the centipedes to dive straight towards the bottom of the screen.
If a centipede reaches the bottom of the screen then it steals a point of research.
The game is written using Processing, which is really just a simple wrapper around Java. In theory, the game should work on anything with a reasonably up to date version of Java 1.6. Unfortunately I don't have a Mac (I took it on faith that Processing would generate a working OSX build) so I don't know for sure what is going, but my hunch is that there's a problem with the version of Java.
@ranklar the resemblance to Centipede is not a coincidence. I was thinking about old games and ended up with an unholy mashup between Centipede and Typing of the Dead.
Pretty good game. In tight spots however, I tended to hit Esc instead of Backspace. Would be good if Esc just paused or something, not abandoned the game. Also, one time it began the wrong word when there were two words starting with the same letters. Not sure that's actually wrong, but it confused me at the time. Also, the medicine words appeared in two stages?
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If a centipede reaches the bottom of the screen then it steals a point of research.
The game is written using Processing, which is really just a simple wrapper around Java. In theory, the game should work on anything with a reasonably up to date version of Java 1.6. Unfortunately I don't have a Mac (I took it on faith that Processing would generate a working OSX build) so I don't know for sure what is going, but my hunch is that there's a problem with the version of Java.
Works on my macbook, but runs a little slowly, nearly all java applets do for some reason though.
Works great on windows in chrome.
The web version bails out but the Windows executable worked.
Oh, and I got "humpy" as a word. Huh.