A game by Adam Parrish http://characterror.com

This game requires Java. If you can't use one of the included executable files, you can run the game from the command line like so:

$ java -Xms512m -Xmx1024m -jar processing-py.jar game.py

Your goal is to complete words by "firing" letters from your magazine on the right side of the screen onto the end of one of the strings of letters on the left side of the screen. Longer words will garner exponentially more points.

Your score is also affected by your multiplier, which increases as you fire letters and form words. Your multiplier will be reset if you land a letter that makes a string that can't be the beginning of a valid English word.

When a string turns green, that means it's a valid English word and can now be "detonated." Detonating a word immediately scores it, and starts a new string in that slot. Note that green words can also potentially be the beginning of an even longer valid word!

Strings that form valid words that can't be made longer, or strings that can't ever form valid English words, will be detonated automatically.

The game keeps track of what words can be formed from the strings currently on the left side of the screen, and will only ever allow letters in the magazine that can be the next letter in forming a valid English word. It's technically impossible to get stuck, though you may find yourself stretching your vocabulary to its limits.

The game has three modes: 90 second time trial, 4 minute time trial, and 50 character puzzle mode.

Controls:

• UP/DOWN: select which string to fire into
• Z: fire letter
• X: shuffle magazine (will halve your multiplier)
• ENTER: detonate word at selected slot
• ESC: pause/help

The source files in this distribution that I wrote carry an ISC license, which is included at the top of the file. Media files in the data/ directory are distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

The processing-py.jar file comes from Jonathan Feinberg's excellent processing.py project, which is distributed under the terms of the Apache license. More information here: https://github.com/jdf/processing.py

The tweener.py library was written by Ben Harling, and carries an MIT license. See that file for more information.

The file pcsenior.ttf comes from codeman38's excellent font collection, available here: http://www.zone38.net/font/

The project additionally makes use of software from the Jython and Processing projects. More information here: http://www.jython.org/ http://processing.org/

Building the game for Windows requires launch4j, which can be acquired here: http://launch4j.sourceforge.net/