A wonderfully simple and horrifyingly
addictive game for
win32, written by
Nozomi Matsuzaka.
In moon, you are a sleeping
1 fish.
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The fish follows the
mouse pointer, but has a maximum speed and can't always keep up with it. Lots of stars enter the screen, traveling at various speeds and angles, but always
downwards and
left. In the corner a
timer steadily counts up. As it progresses, the stars become larger, faster, and more numerous. A soothing
midi file plays in the background
2. When the
fish collides with a
star, the music stops, the
game is over (and the fish dies).
Important milestones:
0 - start of game
2500 - larger stars appear
4000 - Enormous stars appear
5440 - My current high score
3
69396 - the world high score, as of a few years ago.
4
Tips:
Moon works best when you're not concentrating. Just play it forever until your mind is blank :)
Stars can pass through the fish's tail without injury. It's just the head you have to worry about.
Surprisingly, moon is just as playable with a
touchpad or
accupoint as a
mouse. Perfect for
airports! I'd appreciate expermental data from anyone with a tablet PC.
Moon is availible from the author's homepage at http://www.ymo.net/~nozomi/works/Moon/
1 - You can tell it's sleeping. It has its eyes shut.
2 - The moon ringtone, for nokia 'phones:
Tempo:160, Scale:6, Note duration, 1/4. Copy and paste the tiny line below:
2h5.,a5,c,h5,2g5.,2d5.,e5,f#5,g5,d5,f#5,g5,h5,c,h5,32a5,32h5,8a5.,g5,a5,2h5.,
a5,d,f#,2g,a,2h.,c7,h,a,g,f#,a,2g,16d,d,f#,e,c,2h5.,a5,c,h5,2g5.,2d5.,e5,f#5,
g5,d5,f#5,g5,h5,c,h5,32a5,32h5,8a5.,g5,a5,2h5.,a5,d,f#,2g,a,2h.,c7,h,a,g,f#,
a,2g,d,2g.,8f#,8f#,f#,f#,f#,d,a,g,d,h5,g5,d,g,8f#,8f#,f#,f#,f#,a,c7,8h,8c7,16a.,
16h.,16a.,8g,8a,g,d,e,8f#,8f#,f#,f#,f#,d,a,g,d,h5,g5,d,g,8a,8d,a,h,16c7.,16d7.,
16c7.,h,a,g,d,h,2a.
3 - Someone's got to have done better than this... feel free to
sumbit your high-scores for the E2 moon top 10.
4 - Moon used to have a high-score table (http://www.ymo.net/~nozomi/works/Moon/ranking.html), but it appears to be no more.