Bigger

 ·  Geekery, Technology, Personal, Games, Science  ·  2 min

bigger: a small orange fish among bigger fish and jellyfish in a blue sea

Been a gamer on-and-off since the early 80s. Actually programmed my first game on a TI-57 calculator back in 1978. Always fun to see what can be done with simple concepts…

You are a dot. You eat dots. That is the whole game of bigger.

And there are bigger dots. Always a bigger dot.

Play it

Right here:

Click the game, then Space. On a phone the keys show under it.

  • The arrows steer.
  • Eat the small. Avoid the big ones.
  • P pauses. Q quits.

That is all you need to know. The rest the game tells you when you get there.

Seven sizes

The dot was a cell in a drop of pond water. The cell was inside a fish. The fish lived on a moon and so on.

Every size plays its own way:

  • A moon falls round a giant. Mind the gravity.
  • Stars pull at each other. Everything pulls everything.
  • Get too big and you blow up. What is left is a neutron star, with a beam that breaks the big rocks into food.
  • Too heavy, and you fall in on yourself. A black hole eats anything. Stop eating and you fade.

And then the picture pulls back some more.

The same idea as universe

universe is one of my Fe₂O₃ apps: every scale in 37 steps, from the quantum foam to the cosmic web. You step out and you step in. Try it in your browser.

bigger comes from the same idea. In universe you look at the scales. In bigger you eat your way up on that scale.

The Game Room

The Game Room has fourteen games now. Pick one and play. A top ten under every game, comments under every game, no sign-up.

bigger joined the family: play it full size and beat the top ten.

Dust

The game I did yesterday is also in the room: dust.

You dig down through caves where every pixel is a grain. Sand heaps. Water finds its level. Oil floats and burns. Acid eats rock. Lava sets the wood alight and turns to stone in water. Feels a bit like Terraria.

Four wands: bore, flame, spout and bomb. Take the gold. Mind the slimes, bats and imps. Find the gate to the next depth.

Summary

Built with Claude on funkey.

Public Domain, like everything I make.

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