Trap the Critters with Paint

[dddddaviddddd]

Overlapping zigzags quickly trap them. Since ‘trapped’ appears to be determined by the rate of bounces, you just need to divide the area as much as possible.

[datadrivenangel]

You can resize the levels to basically zero and instantly win each level

[aiiane]

Resizing the window smaller makes the game a lot simpler.

[devjab]

It does. There are 100 levels.

[dddddaviddddd]

Reminds me of the Brandon Sanderson novel, The Rithmatist, where creatures are also trapped in drawn shapes.

[ge96]

I drew a circle around the critter and it was trapped inside it, I didn't win? Did it in 4 strokes

[Terr_]

Apparently you have to subdivide the areas so finely that they don't have enough room to exist.

[blahedo]

It's giving Qix, a little bit, although the critter's different and the lines are way more freeform.

Bug, I think: the critter definitely can cross some of the paint lines, which was a little unexpected. It slows down but then it's on the other side of it.

[theturtlemoves]

Fun game.

The collision detection seems to have the same problem as the yin yang game that was posted a while ago: The critters sometimes cross the lines. I wonder if the root cause is similar, having to do with this being a browser game?

Nevertheless, fun little game

[ninju]

How do you win a level?

I trapped the critter with painted lines but when the time expired it said I lost :-(

[ninju]

Ah..you have to trap them REAL tightly and then they explode :-)

[hooverd]

It's easier to keep bisecting the area vs trying to draw a circle.

[nikolay]

Reminds me of Xonix [0]...

[0]: https://dos.zone/xonix-1984/

[evan_]

JezzBall was also pretty similar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JezzBall

Jezzball was a TI calculator classic.

[hinkley]

Xonix is listed as a remake of Qix. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qix

I encountered a version of this game sometime around 1990 and played the hell out of it. Since I don’t see any remakes from around that time, and I never had a Game Boy, I might have found it on a BBS, or a discount rack. There were a huge number of people briefly playing another game in this genre sometime around 2004, with lots of pretty colors. Everyone was playing it, and then they weren’t. I didn’t because I’d already played the original enough for one life. But I can’t find it in the list either.

[4b11b4]

I like it. I wish they'd bounce off each other too! - to incentivize getting em into the same zone.

[LoganDark]

I just predict their path and draw a very tight circle and they explode in just one or two draws :)

[jmclnx]

Very Cool and quite fun to play with