Tail Orbit

by bugninja

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.03

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.06

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.26

Theme★★★★★★★★★★1.88

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.18

Audio★★★★★★★★★★1.36

Humor★★★★★★★★★★1.62

Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.48

Coolness★★★★★★★★★★66%

You have 60 seconds to destroy as many peaceful orbs as you can.... since they are peaceful, that makes you the villain :)

Important note: You have to hit the orbs with your TAIL ... not your head to get points :)

Use arrow keys to move, Z slows down, X speeds back up.

You must hit the orbs with your TAIL and not your HEAD to score points. Your tail gets longer and harder to use the more orbs you hit with your head.

Have fun!!!

It was made with Monkey (http://www.monkeycoder.co.nz/), graphics made in Fireworks.

I can't enter the "compo" because some of the libraries I use are closed source, and I'm using a modified version of Mojo that ships with Monkey.

Comments27

rumachine17 Dec 2012, 00:19

Great game! I enjoyed playing it.

JacksGamesSucks17 Dec 2012, 20:48

cool game, different approach, enjoyed playing

Jlebow18 Dec 2012, 08:07

Fun game.

lucky.luddite18 Dec 2012, 08:08

Nice trail effect.

Luis Anton18 Dec 2012, 08:08

Nice! It was difficult getting used to controls - so many keys for such a small game, and hitting orbs with your tail requieres a bit of training. Well done!

Logun18 Dec 2012, 08:12

It is hard to manage the tail properly. It is half cool, half frustrating. But cool concept !

Dir3kt18 Dec 2012, 08:13

Cute game, interesting concept :)

Small suggestion about the controls. Why not make up/down work like z/x ?

Yacodo18 Dec 2012, 08:22

Pretty tricky to play (at first I was like : Yeah try eat it... and then... I re-read the intro :))

KWL_TW18 Dec 2012, 08:26

A beautiful game!

AhNinniah19 Dec 2012, 03:36

Great concept! Though not very convenient that the character can completely get off the game screen

Floko19 Dec 2012, 04:55

nice game! even tough the theme isn't that clear if I don't read the description . Hitting the orbs with the tail is pretty hard,but still an enjoyable experience =]

Rabbits...19 Dec 2012, 04:55

I liked the idea of having a tail that was out for revenge, good job on the game, the colors contrasted nicely...

GreenPixelDev19 Dec 2012, 04:56

Reminded me of Snake! Cool concept and very smooth controls :D

bugninjaauthor19 Dec 2012, 05:14

@GreenPixelDev I'm glad you said that. I was kind-of working from a reverse-snake angle.

bugninjaauthor19 Dec 2012, 05:15

@AhNinniah I actually have a version where you can't go off the screen. You actually don't go too far off the game screen, so if you turn slightly, you should see yourself re-appear.

cdata19 Dec 2012, 05:21

This game is pretty fun, and quite hard. I found it very difficult to recover after my tail gets a certain length.

zatyka19 Dec 2012, 05:22

Nice concept and well executed. Controls were solid. I do wish there were a bit more to the gameplay though.

RosyPenguin19 Dec 2012, 05:24

haha, I didn't read the instructions the first time through and ate every orb with my head. But the subsequent plays when I tried to eat the orbs with my tail it turned out a lot more difficult than it looks and I ended up having a lot of fun playing both ways!

Also, I am a fan of this clean, crisp aesthetic and soft colors. Great job!

raincole19 Dec 2012, 05:26

Interesting. The trailing effect is pretty.

Cthu19 Dec 2012, 12:06

Love it! Although I like the "non growing tail" build better. Add some Osmos style music and it would be enough to publish.

@bugninja: question regarding your bug report on my game - can you share your setup info? Flash Player version, system and brief computer specs? I'd like to investigate. Thanks!

arch.jslin19 Dec 2012, 16:41

It's sort of like a reversed-omnidirectional snake game! Simple yet excellent art and challenging.

BlockBrains23 Dec 2012, 16:39

Beautiful.

bechsen27 Dec 2012, 14:58

Great!

Ed Okonik4 Jan 2013, 23:26

A nice game with interesting game play. Some atmospheric sound and music would make this really nice. Not sure about how well it fits the compo theme, but nice work anyway.

bugninjaauthor6 Jan 2013, 22:02

Yeah, I don't think I'll get many votes based on theme because I didn't have time to get all the graphics done that would have made it make more sense that you were the bad guy. So I called them "peaceful" orbs. Sort-of a cop out, :D