Yarn Snap!

You are a cat playing with your new hanging yarn ball when suddenly, it snaps! Not wanting to let it get dirty, you will do everything in your power to keep it in the air as long as you can. But you still have to do the important missions any normal cat does at the same time!

Use your swift reflexes to help you keep shredding a clean yarn ball!

This game was developed as part of the Godot Wild Jam #63 with the theme CATS !.

Background walls layout traced using this image by Dave CaveDraws as reference.

Important notes about the web version on lower spec systems

• Game may take a while to load the first time because of shader caching.
• A little lag may be felt on mouse movement too.
• I recommend playing a downloaded version for the best experience.

This is my first time exporting to Mac and Linux and I do not have a way to ensure they work, would really appreciate anyone telling me if they do.

Default controls

Left-click	Swipe
Spacebar	Toggle reflex time (slow motion)
Enter	Pause game

Objective

• Try to reach the highest score you can!
• The game ends if the yarn ball touches the floor or if you lose all of your "mission lives".
• You gain a new life every 50,000 points.

Features

• Keybind configuration and Assisted Swipe Mode. (You can read more about Assisted Swipe Mode below).

• Three stages, triggered each after certain amount of yarn ball swipes.
  • Each stage modifies the difficulty of the missions.
    
  • A popup is shown on the bottom left corner of the game when there is a stage change.
• "Hidden" score bonuses that add up to the amount of points you get with each yarn ball swipe. Each of this bonuses scales with the current stage number.
  • Near miss - Swiping the yarn ball very close to the ground.
  • Juggle - When the yarn ball travels a long distance horizontally between swipes.
  • Combo - Happens with each hit the player is able to make on the yarn ball before it starts to fall due to gravity.
  • You get more points the longer you wait in-between swipes to the yarn ball.

• The yarn ball degrades with each swipe, getting smaller, faster, and bouncing farther.

• Reflex time that allows you to perceive everything in the game as if it was in slow motion.

• Cheat codes that change some gameplay elements (see below).

Assisted Swipe Mode

Yarn Snap! is intended to be a reaction and reflex game that tests the user's hand-eye coordination.  As such, left-clicking, the default control bind for swiping, is required to be performed multiple times during a play session. This may be straining to some players' hands. If that is your case, you may want to try to change the key-bind for the swiping action to a more comfortable button for you. If that is not a solution for you, you may want to try Assisted Swipe Mode.

With Assisted Swipe Mode activated, your paw will automatically swipe whenever it detects something swipe-able underneath. This doesn't negate normal swiping, so you can still press your chosen swipe key to swipe manually. This means you can play the game using only mouse movement and a single button for reflex mode toggle. I hope that this solution helps you enjoy Yarn Snap!

Cheat codes

Yarn Snap! includes 5 cheat codes that modify the game in one way or another. To use them, during a game, press enter to open the pause menu. Using your keyboard, type the cheat code you want to activate from the next table. If everything went right, you should see the name of the cheat pop out of the bottom right corner of the window.

Cheat	Effect
click here to reveal catnip	Infinite reflex time
click here to reveal ulthar	Never lose mission lives
click here to reveal lasagna	Big paw mode
click here to reveal cheshire	Yarn ball pulses with invisibility
click here to reveal topcat	Double points on any active mission (has to be activated again when new missions start)