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Happy New Year! v 1.0
2009-02-24
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--- What? ---

Happy New Year! is a small game that inspired by the very holiday in the title. The goal is to fire rockets into the night sky and create magnificent explosions.

--- Why? ---

Basically, I wanted to try out the HGE graphics library and this game proved to be a suitible project.

--- How? ---

As soon as the game begins, rockets will come flying across the sky. It is your job to intercept these rockets and make them explode!

In order to do this, you can fire rockets of your own at any location on the screen by clicking the left mouse button. The rocket will travel to the point you clicked and detonate, creating a glorious explosion.

If you're lucky, or skilled, the explosion will make another rocket on the screen detonate, which in turn can make other rockets explode, and thus creating mighty combos, earning you lots and lots score points!

Talking about score points, the standard rockets give you 100 points while the green bonus rockets earns you 200 points. Once in a while, special rockets will appear that are worth 1000 points. When detonated, these rockets will spawn another rocket and send it flying to another area of the sky.

Creating combos earns you more points the higher the combos you manage to get. Obviously, a higher combo means a higher score value! 

When a rocket explodes, it adds a small amount to your Multiplier meter, which affects the number of points you get from rockets and combos. At the beginning, it starts at a 100%, meaning you get a standard rate of points. Be careful though, as you fire rockets of your own, the Multiplier meter decreases! So, you need to be conservative when firing off rockets in order to get a higher score!

--- Who? ---

Created by Mattias Thell  ( http://www.mattiasthell.com )

Music composed by Marcus Thell ( http://www.marct.se )
