{"id":2182,"edition":12,"categories":3,"features":0,"size":8165,"name":"Sharks and Trains","authors":[{"name":"bitwhirlpool","login":"bitwhirlpool","gh":180596219}],"description":"

Sharks or Trains, your choice.

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You are the leader. Your followers follow you and each other until they are split apart by the Evil rotating 13 that drops pinball bumper 13s on the screen.

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You have the power to erase the 13s and try to get your followers back together.

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Want to WIN? Press Bounce Followers button. Check the follower count in the top left screen. When your total followers reaches the total number of followers , then You WIN! Yea!\nBut the struggle continues. You get your followers back by touching them.

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Buttons:\nBounce followers - makes your followers non followers and sends them to random locations. Turn them back into followers by touching them

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Clear Trails - Clears the screen of 13s that were laid down by the Big 13\nAudio button - toggles the sound effects on and off.\nTrain button - toggles between Trains and Sharks

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Sliders:\nFollower Speed - the speed that followers try to get back together\nBig 13 Speed - the speed of the Big rotating 13 that drops little 13s on the screen\nTrail Distance - changes the distance between the dropped little 13s

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Information:\nTotal followers\nTotal Following (currently)\nTotal Collisions (collisions per second) // used to change sound effects

\n","source":"bitwhirlpool/Sharks","stars":0,"comments":[{"at":379248434,"author":"Ryan Tyler","login":"tyler6699","gh":50468,"url":"https://carelesslabs.co.uk","text":"

Interesting concept, I like the sharks, was not expecting trains even though the game is called Shark or Trains.

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My browser struggled a little with the game, a lot of rendering going on, some interesting patterns and shapes going on, kind of an art piece?

\n","games":["The Fear Factory"]},{"at":379418157,"author":"Steven Lambert","login":"straker","gh":2433219,"url":"https://stevenklambert.com/","twitter":"StevenKLambert","text":"

The visual effects in the background were pretty cool, but a bit distracting at times, especially when trying to see the 13s left behind. Being able to play with the settings of the simulation was also interesting.

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Lots going on, lagged my computer at times.

\n","games":["The Encroaching Darkness"]},{"at":379504862,"author":"Jasper Renow-Clarke","login":"picosonic","gh":26137750,"twitter":"femtosonic","text":"

Very novel idea for a game. The concept was very interesting.

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I wasn’t sure that the blue blobs on the sharks meant, or why they went away when I moved the “sticky” shark over the blobs. Was it something to do with the followers?

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Was there a benefit to being a shark or train? Perhaps add a character select screen at the start and make it clear what the difference is.

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Good job

\n","games":["rollermaze"]},{"at":379719710,"author":"Jonathan Vallet","login":"jonathan-vallet","gh":5329099,"text":"

I’ve reached the total number of followers after bouncing, but didn’t get an ending screen.\nThe animation effect in background was laggy :/

\n","games":["13 Steps to Escape"]},{"at":380224335,"author":"Homer Dilpleu","login":"HomerDilpleu","gh":66157330,"text":"

I liked the sharks graphics and the “bubble” effects in the background that are very cute!\nTo me this game sounds more like a demo and it was not clear how to reach the end after having the 25 followers. I don’t know if it is a specific problem on my computer but I was not able to hear any sound.\nThe concepts is interesting and I never played this kind of game.

\n","games":["Unloved 13"]},{"typ":2,"at":380436618,"author":"Matt Hackett","login":"richtaur","gh":24601,"url":"https://valadria.com","twitter":"richtaur","text":"

A trippy game about sharks and trains. I honestly couldn’t figure out what the goal was, but I always love seeing sharks and it looks like the theme is integrated well. Nice job.

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what a unique game! original and strange in a good way. a piece of art that I didn’t fully understand but I did appreciate. thanks for joining js13k!

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