Osless

Become the biggest! In fact, become the only one...

You play a mote in a soup of primordial... stuff. Absorb all the other motes before they absorb you. Unlike them, you can move, but only at a cost: each time you change direction (i.e. press a key) you shrink a little.

If you touch another mote and you're the bigger then you will absorb it and grow.

If you're smaller than another mote when you touch then it will absorb you...

See if you can score more than 10, my top score.

Bigger motes are black, smaller are shades of grey - the lighter the safer to pursue.

Controls

Directions/arrow keys only

This little toy was made for TweetTweetJam 7 and so the code for it is 560 bytes long - small enough to fit into two tweets.

It is inspired by Osmos: a great game and a lot better than this. You should check it out.

Here's the code:

t=0e=128::m::r=rnd
d={}for i=1,30do
d[i]={x=r(e),y=r(e),s=i/3,h=r(.4)-.2,v=r(.4)-.2}end
p=d[1]p.s=5b=30k=btn::l::a=0for i=1,30do
n=d[i]N=n.s a+=N if(b<1)n.x=(n.x+n.h)%e n.y=(n.y+n.v)%e
if(N>0)circfill(n.x,n.y,N,i==1and 8or N>p.s and 0or mid(5,p.s-N,7))
X=n.x-p.x Y=n.y-p.y S=N+p.s
if i>1and X*X+Y*Y<S*S then
if p.s>N then
p.s+=N/2n.s=0else
if(b>0)goto m
p.s-=.3if(p.s<0)t=0goto m
end
end
end
if(a==p.s)t+=1goto m
?"⁶1⁶cd\f9"..t
if(k'0')p.h-=.2
if(k'1')p.h+=.2
if(k'2')p.v-=.2
if(k'3')p.v+=.2
if(k()>0)p.s*=.99p.h=mid(-1,p.h,1)p.v=mid(-1,p.v,1)
b=max(b-1)goto l