Introduction
Open source mashup of classic arcade games with Hive blockchain support. Read the bottom about section for more information.
Who's a good boy? Yes, you are!
Added the final power-up this week, making the power-ups amount to 10 different types. Originally planned to make something with inspiration from Qix, but during the process changed my mind to make it a bit different. The player will draw a line and if the tail crosses the line, the line will be of such interest that the tail simply has to investigate and follow it to see where it leads. This makes the power-up a cross between offensive and defensive, you can use it to get the tail away from you, or to lure it into its own trap (traps not yet added to the game).
Hmm, what's this?
Power-ups in general got a bit of spice this week. When you pick them up, their name will fade in/out in big letters. Plan for next week is to also add some massive voice-over sounds to get that arcade feeling right for picking up important items.
Power-ups, power-ups, power-ups
Also got started on making the in-game tutorial. Will be very short and with visual cues only. Prompting player to click/touch, hinting how to move, how to use power-ups and how to interact with the tail.
Thanks for reading!
About
Hive P v. S is a mashup of classic arcade games. You fly around collecting stars, each star collected spawn an entity that forms a tail that gets longer and longer. Avoid the tail for as long as possible until you get a power up that gives you a limited time to destroy the tail. If successful you'll get bonus points and new stars are spawned. Rinse and repeat.
When the final score is high enough, you'll get the opportunity to submit the score to the high score table. The high score table is saved on Hive and is viewable on Hive as well as in-game for all users.
Game will be released for browsers, as a PWA and as native builds for mobile and computer platforms.
Check out the following links to get a closer look at the progress!
Project links: GitHub, website and playable build.
Game development using web technologies.
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