This is my first flash game. Something very simple. Try to reach the goal as fast as possible, by pressing spacebar as fast as possible.

Play the game here: http://reinerstileset.4players.de/flash/snailrace.html

For those with low internet speed, the size is 5.5 Mb.

There are two hotkeys:

Key 1 above the letterkeys resets the hi-score.
Key 2 above the letters shows a FPS counter.

The hi-score is local. You play just against yourself. I don`t have direct mysql access, and mochi is no alternative for me neither. So i solved it with an ini. Hope you don`t mind

Screenshot:

It's a good looking game, but I wasn't sure which snail I was till they all streaked past me.

Out of interest, why is Mochi not possible for you?

I feel like clicking repetetively would be better than space bar, pressing keys that fast is obnoxious :P And the snails are so fast, its not possible to beat them...except I cheated and got a score of 7.47 seconds.

Thanks for the feedback

I felt that it is too easy to find out which snail is yours. So i didn`t add a further hint

The snails are beatable sometimes. It`s just sometimes they are fast, sometimes they are slow. And so they are not always beatable

The same argument you have for spacebar counts also for clicking. But the spacebar button is lots bigger, and can be used with both hands. That`s why i have chosen the spacebar. This gives you also a hint how you can win more often without cheating

Hm, would really be interested how you cheated. But that would kill the fun for the others i guess :P



It`s not that it is not possible. But i don`t want to earn money, and i don`t want other companies to earn money with it neither. And that`s Mochi out then

I cheated by making an application that presses space over and over again.

Mochi doesn't mean money, you can disable ads and just enable highscores.

Haha

Mochi still earns money, or better said customers, with my content in that case. Which is not bad. This platform has to live too. But it is my game, not theirs

I think that you can have the MochiScores without the ads.

Hm. It`s not so much the ads. But don`t i still need to register to Mochi, and upload my game to their page? Or have i misunderstood their business model? I need a Mochi number for the game to be able to use the high score. And that brings customers to them

So? There really is no business transaction, you're not
displaying ads, you are just using their highscore functionality. Using something they created comes along with creditting them accordingly.
They aren't making money, and I doubt many people will become customers to mochi because of your game, people use the highscores and leaves.

You don't have to upload your game to their page, you can just stick the scores in and not use their distribution model, ad serving or social stuff.

I think what Tiles might be uncomfortable is the Mochi branding. When the highscores appear, there is a link that links to the Mochi website. I personally don't see any problems with this, but Tiles might not like it. It's really up to him.