BombSnack
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A 1-player arcade game. The snake keeps growing on her own, so she's gotta eat bombs to clear its trail. Help her collecting stars to increase the scoring multiplier, and rush to get clocks for BIG points.
The fabled snake Ourobombos has been biting her own tail for ages, and she can’t stand it anymore! Alas, she has made a wacky plan: blasting off her tail with bombs. Still painful, but at least she’ll get rid of that boring old taste.
HOW TO PLAY
Guide the snake with WASD or the Arrow buttons. If she crosses a screen border she'll reappear on the other side. Don't let her bite her own tail or it's game over! 
You gotta help her eat Bombs to clear her trail.
Collecting Stars raises the Multiplier permanently. By default you only score 1 point per Bomb and 4 per Stopwatch, but the Multiplier can increase that A LOT!
Stopwatches score BIG points, but they only stay on screen for a short time. Better rush to get them!
PAUSE the game with the Settings button or Esc. You can change the songs and the speed of the game. Try a different speed if you find the game too easy/hard.
Note: a couple features don't seem to work on some mobiles or the BRAVE browser.
Español__________________________________________
Un juego arcade para 1 jugador. La serpiente no para de crecer por sí sola, así que tiene que comer Bombas para eliminar su rastro. Ayúdale a conseguir Estrellas para aumentar el multiplicador, y date prisa cogiendo Relojes para ganar aún más puntos.
La mítica serpiente Ourobombos lleva eones mordiendo su propia cola, ¡Y no lo aguanta más! Se le ha ocurrido un disparatado plan: destruir su cola con bombas. Still painful, but at least she’ll get rid of that boring old taste.
CÓMO SE JUEGA
Guía a la serpiente usando WASD o las flechas. Si cruza un borde lateral aparecerá en el lado contrario. La partida acaba si la serpiente se muerde la cola.
Debes ayudarla a comer Bombas para eliminar su rastro.
Conseguir Estrellas aumenta el Multiplicador permanentemente. Al principio las bombas sólo valen 1 punto y los Relojes 4 ¡Pero el Multiplicador puede aumentar muchísimo su valor!
Los Relojes dan muchos puntos, pero desaparecen al poco tiempo. ¡Date prisa para cogerlos!
PAUSA el juego con el icono de ajustes o Esc. Puedes cambiar de canción o la velocidad del juego. Prueba otra velocidad si te resulta muy fácil/difícil.
Nota: ciertas cosas parecen no funcionar en algunos móviles o el navegador BRAVE.
CREDITS
Programming by Knexator
Game design and visuals, Pinchazumos
Music by Abstraction, Incompetech, RoccoW and Context Sensitive
Logo made by Diego Almazán, aka "your logo sucks, hold my baby"
Intro voice made by Woffelson
Sound effects made with JSFXR
Huge thanks to all the testers from Paradise, Sai and his students
Comments
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game rocks
I'm really happy to see you doubling the record but a bit sad to see you mute the music haha.
In case the game starts getting a bit stale for you, I'm gonna suggest a couple of variants the previous world master and I came up with:
Stairway mode: you can only turn right and up.
Spiral mode: you can only turn 90° (relative to your angle at that time).
Thanks for playing!
Bomberman meets Snake.
That's almost the prototype's name hehe
Bombersnake would have been his previous name?
Yep, I had already done a "final" logo with that name. Then I convinced my partner to change the name cause I was afraid people ignoring the instructions might try to avoid bombs, instead of "eating" them. Several other games are called like that anyway.
Good take on classic snake.
Fun game :) 639 is my current record
Thats about the average for us devs XD I've gone beyond a couple of times, but they were really exceptional. My partner is better, but still not too far I think.
Is there a Best Score anywhere? I couldn't find one so I can't track how well I'm doing across runs.
Hi there! We wanted an online leaderboard but scrapped that for...reasons XD long story. Very uncomfortably decided to try a Share feature for people to show their score on socials and maybe find more players, but so far very few seem to like it😅. If we update we might go back to a classic leaderboard.
For context, assuming you're on speed 2, and not on mobile:
-Beginners can be proud getting between 50-100.
-I've obviously played a ton and wanna think I'm decent, my record is 961 but I rarely get 500+. The coder once got ~1700, that wasn't typical either.
-Some inhuman people are going way over that. The current record afaik is ~26000 XDDD.
Thanks for playing!
Ah, no. I just meant your personal best.
Other people's scores are interesting, but that's not the same as measuring your own progress.
Good luck with the game, feels like it has room to grow 🐍
What makes it feel that way? XD
What direction would you recommend to grow towards?
Do you think its missing something important? (you can be blunt about it)
My problem is that I have the memory of a goldfish. so I've no idea how well I'm doing. I literally don't know if I've had a score even worth comparing to your list of bad-to-good scores because there's no record. The score is there and gone.
If I play again there is no tension as I close in on my best attempt - I don't know what it is. And so the score doesn't matter to me, and yet that seems to be the entire objective so far, to get a really big score.
That's a great point thanks!
Love this game! Have you thought about putting it on newgrounds.com and implementing their scoreboard api? I think it would get a a lot of traction there, even without a scoreboard
Glad you like it! We haven't talked at all about putting it somewhere else, some people have suggested other portals too... Its very cool knowing newgrounds have their own leaderboard api, do you know if they force you to include ads in the game?
The site is completely ad free, you don't need to do anything to have access to scoreboards, but by being a monthly supporter your games can have more cloud save memory. Though the free-tier amount of memory is more than enough for a game like this.
I gotta ask a friend about it, I think he is quite familiar with newgrounds. BIg thanks for the suggestion!
this is awesome ! super fun
Found myself really enjoying the risk reward of collecting more stars vs collecting bombs! nice!
Did you find that aspect clear/intuitive? I'm a bit worried people might not get it😅
Yeah I had no problems with that. Tbh my biggest learning hurdle was how bombs cleared part of my snake, for a while i thought it was either random or some form of AOE haha, but i got it eventually
same for me, about the clearing. i mean it's pretty obvious in retrospect because of the line effect. but idk. for some reason it was too much to comprehend in the beginning
some other people have mentioned the same. We're not sure how but we might try improving that. Thanks for your input!
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