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Snake Runner, a Snake's Endless Journey for Apples!
Snake Runner is a 2D "endless runner". Avoid obstacles and collect apples by jumping into the air and burrowing into the ground. The larger you grow, the faster you go! More points are awarded the longer you can survive without hitting an obstacle.
Controls: Up - Jump Down - Dig
Features: - A remarkably acrobatic snake! - Over 8 silly hats to unlock for some reason! - Digging holes! - 9 silly hats to unlock for some reason!
Snake Runner was made by Evan Good for the double-themed LD 34: "Two button controls" and "Growing". This is my forth LD entry, and my first after a year long break. The theme of "growing" made me think of the classic game "Snake", where a snake grows longer and longer while moving around a playing area, eating randomly spawning apples. Of course, Snake is a game with four-directions (and therefore four buttons), so my idea was to make a game with only two. This was the result!
Snake Runner was developed using the following tools/resources: GameMaker Studio Pro 1.4 (with HTML5 export) BFXR sound generator Audacity audio editor (fun fact: most sound effects came from heavily edited recordings of a box of cereal! Crunchy!) ColorZilla Gradient Editor
No pre-existing code, art, or sound assets were used.
- TIPS - - Gold Apples and Bomb Apples will allow you to hit one obstacle without losing part of your snake. Additionally, Gold Apples make jumping high a little easier while you're holding one, and Bomb Apples make it easier to dig deep. You can combine their effects if you have both. - Jumping extra high or digging low awards lots of points, but you'll have to get in a rhythm of jumping diving to go fast enough to reach them. Try to gather as many apples as you can before focusing on jumps and you'll really rake in the points! - You gain new hats for reaching certain point levels. The final one requires 200,000 points! Don't want to wait or want to try a specific hat? Check the cheat section below! - "Dig Jumping" (pressing up while underground) is not only good for higher jumps: do it under a box for extra smashing points! - You bounce off of the top of boxes and pillars normally, but if you hold the up key you can use them for a small jump boost!
- CHEATS! - For those looking to mess around with things a little, I added the following cheat keys: B - Become bomb snake (as if you just picked up a Bomb Apple) P - Become gold snake (as if you just picked up a Golden Apple) L - Add a segment/speed to your snake H - Cycle through the strange hats that I inexplicably took the time to put into this game
Thanks for playing and good luck to all the other Darers! Also a shout-out to Quill18, who encouraged watchers (including me!) to participate a week ago during a livestream. I probably would have skipped it otherwise!
Seemed very familiar to other games I've played. But otherwise, pretty fun and addicting. (Also comparing the snake's sprite to the boxes and tubes, there was quite a difference in quality)
Very fun game! The huge score is oddly satisfying and I love the completely unnecessary hats. graphics could have been better and a some sound would have been cool. good work!
really nice! i would appreciate if you could somehow lose when you hit too many objects... :P but the animations of the movement of the snakes are perfect! :D i enjoyed it!
Most fun I've ever had with 2 buttons. The more I play the more I see lot of care was taken to make this game engaging. Like hazard warnings, entertaining accomplishments, and those big rainbow jumps.
Very close game to death worm enough for me to be suspicious and cynical. Besides that I want to give a fair balanced review of what I see. Lets give this game a go
Nice tie in with two button controls. I like the humor with the hats and gives the game some sensitive to play. I was wrong and the game-play is closer to flappy bird then death-worm. Sound is nice.
@hpearson2 Never heard of Death Worm before, for the record, but thank you for not judging a book by its cover! To be fair, worm-like things digging through the earth isn't exactly something nobody's thought of before :)
Thank you to everyone else for the kind words, as well! I'm pretty satisfied with how this one turned out. I do regret not putting a failure state in the game, as that does seem to be the biggest complaint. Unfortunately it would have been quite easy to at least do a time trial or something. Still! I'm glad people are having some fun.
Thanks for cheats :D