Reversnake - Snake in Reverse. The classic game of Snake, but with a twist. In this version of Snake, your goal is not to grow, but to shrink. Apples are heathly and make you shrink, but you grow over time. Minimize your Size to win!
The objective: Shrink to nothing. -Eat apples to shrink -Don't hit yourself
The challenge: You grow. Fast. -Lose upon hitting yourself (Why are you hitting yourself? Why are you hitting yourself?)
The controls: a = turn 45 degrees d = turn -45 degrees SHIFT+A = turn 90 degrees SHIFT+D = turn -90 degress Space = Flip head and tail (Note: direction is preserved) p = pause/unpause ESC = restart game
_ I made this game in ~ 6 hours (no time on Saturday :( .) This is my first LD submission, hope you like it.
Nice idea. I think the 45° turns detract from the game, but maybe it’s just because I’ve only ever played 90° snake games. Also using the arrow keys instead of a and d would have been nice.
I like the idea of adding more degrees of freedom. I can imagine trying to make different kinds of shapes with the snake.
The fun of playing the game suffers by having the apples spawn so infrequently as it doesn't really give me much to do except for waiting for another apple. If you could have the player do something more frequently then I think it will be more engaging.
Thanks for the comments, everyone. The Android port is almost finished and I will hopefully be able to post it soon. I also agree that the apples have too long of a spawning time, that was actually a typo(5000ms vs 2500ms) so I am uploading a new version by 10 PM GMT April 30th.
Interesting and original idea, easy controls, I like this game. The only fault is the difficulty, you could add option to decrease the spawn rate of apples or something.
Interesting idea, the movement mechanics are a nice twist on snake, but the blocks are too small on screen. It was impossible to line up a hit ahead of time, mostly I felt like it was coming down to luck.
The 45° turn idea is nice.I had two bugs while playing : The first one was a freeze when I pick a bonus the second one was a total loose of control, no input even if I click in our out of the window ( the game was still running ). I also think that there always should be a target so the first 5 seconds without bonus are a bit weird, maybe setting your bonus timer to 0 when there's no more bonus to spawn a new one would correct it. Turning to 45° then using shift mode make a very fun and unusual snake play :)
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The fun of playing the game suffers by having the apples spawn so infrequently as it doesn't really give me much to do except for waiting for another apple. If you could have the player do something more frequently then I think it will be more engaging.
First time I got really lucky and won in three apples :P .