Mamba Classic 2 launch!

 

The moment has arrived! Today is the day you can download and play Mamba Classic 2 for absolutely FREE on itch.io! 

Don't forget to read the full set of tips and tricks in this blog post if you haven't already done so. It was a fun project to work on and hopefully you'll enjoy it as much as I had creating it. 

Any questions, feedback or suggestions: leave it on the itch.io page or drop me a line on X!

Click here to see the entire devlog for this game.

Mamba Classic 2: Launch Day Reveal!

 

Mamba Classic 2: Rules of the game + tips

Hey guys! The snake game Mamba Classic 2 has entered the final stages of development and the rules of the game are simple and set! You'll probably not be surprised to find out they veer off a bit from the traditional snake games you're accustomed to: collect food and grow and see how far you can get without colliding with yourself. That's not the case here.

Mamba Classic 2 is a snake game has a lot more to offer and has a lot more features to help you rake in more score!

A casual game of Mamba Classic 2! In the Garden...

The set rules are as follows:

• Your snake starts in the center of the screen (single player) and automatically moves in any direction and has 3 nodes + head, and must grow 16 nodes initially to make it solidify into a wall. After that it varies anywhere between 8 and 16 food to eat. Jewels or bonuses do NOT make your snake grow! After solidification the snake becomes only 1 node(tail).
• Your snake can travel in ANY direction, including the reverse direction, which makes it easier to collect jewels or bonuses in walls that are obstructed by other walls behind it. You can 'collide' with yourself or other players. Walls are your biggest enemy! Touch them once and it's game over!
• After each solidification a jewel will appear in a wall on the playing field in a random location, as well as a bonus, also in a random location. Getting the bonus will increase the jewel multiplier.
• Jewels and bonuses won't stay on the map forever, after about 8 seconds they'll disappear! It's important to focus on getting the bonuses (especially early in the game), so you can increase the multiplier for the jewels.
• The jewel value is always the fruit value multiplied by the bonuses. Do what you can to get the bonuses first, even if it's tempting to get a near jewel!
• After eating 20 fruits, the speed level increases (up to 10)!
• While playing Mamba Classic 2 the game can NOT be paused on any level! Score must be accumulated in one session.
• After you hit a wall it's game over and a result screen will appear that shows you how many fruits, jewels and bonuses you've collected during that session. Your score will be recorded after you have entered your name!
• If you don't provide a name, your name automatically defaults to 'Player1', and your current score will be recorded in the Top Ten list.
• Bonus value is always 10 times the fruit value! This can increase your score significantly if you get those bonuses!
• The starting value of fruit depends on the level. 10 for the first level (Garden), 50 for Level 2 (Glacier) and 100 for the final level (Palace). Speed increases considerably with each level.

A few tips to help you rake in more score:

• Try to solidify your snake in Mamba Classic 2 as close to the center of the screen as possible! The random solidification after the first time makes this hard to gauge, but it can be done! It makes it easier to collect jewels and bonuses later if the solidification happens as far from the outer wall as possible!
• Focus on collecting bonuses early on, they matter more than jewels. In later stages in the game jewels become more important to collect since they have a higher score attached thanks to the multiplier value.
• Remember you can go the opposite direction and collide with yourself. Use this to your advantage to collect those pesky jewels in the wall or get yourself out of those nasty corners!
• Later on in the game it might be hard to see all that's going on, however bonuses always make a special sound. When you hear the sound focus on spotting the bonus somewhere on the Mamba Classic 2 playing field!
• Train your fingers to make turning corners quickly a breeze! 

A few general tips:

• You can change the color of your snake for both players in the options menu (limited color scheme due to contrast issues that may arise from it).
• You can turn retro mode on or off (scan lines), also in the options menu.
• You can play the game in windowed mode (new), this can ONLY be toggled on or off (full screen) in the options menu.
• You can give Dark Mode a try, this was actually an experimental feature in Mamba Classic 2 that I left in for fun! You can turn this either on or off in... you guessed it, the options menu. (Dark Mode resets every time you exit the game).
• Don't name your snake 'Mamba', you'll regret it.

You can download Mamba Classic 2 on the official release site when available!

~Happy gaming!

Mamba Classic 2 Gameplay video up!

A quick gameplay video on YouTube of Mamba Classic 2!! The video features 'race' mode. The player needs to collect more points than Mamba within a certain time otherwise the race is over and no points are awarded. If the player wins, the score can be recorded and the player can enter their name! This is one of 4 modes that can be played in the game!

 

Do you think you can beat Mamba?

Introducing Mamba Classic 2 !

 

It's been a few years since the original Mamba Classic was released on itch.io. A lot of things have happened in development world for me and I felt that Mamba Classic 1 didn't really do justice of what kind of game I had envisioned. Therefore I'm working on a new game at the moment (in the arcade corner line up), a fun game that DOES do justice of what I really wanted to bring out. Introducing Mamba Classic 2! The snake game with a twist! The snake will eventually solidify thus creating a wall. In this wall diamonds that have big score bonuses will spawn as the game goes on. Two players are supported!!

Below a few screenshots:

Level 1: Garden

Level 2: Glacier

Level 3: Palace

Game Over screen

High Scores!

I personally love the retro effect on it (enabled by default), however if you're not a big fan it can be disabled. Then the game looks like this:

Mamba Classic 2 with Retro style disabled.

A bit more information about the game.

• The game will feature three levels at launch, each with their respective difficulty and score setting. Extra levels can be added and will be in the future expansions/updates!!

• Even though Mamba Classic 2 is 2D, it's being build in Unity3D URP. It allows various light effects among other amazing things!! As a result we get a classic game, with a retro style look but still with a bit of modern flair!

• Two players can play the game! One uses the WASD controls, the other arrows! Believe me, it's fun and addicting. 

• A high score table records the TOP TEN high scores in the game.

• There are different modes to play. An endless mode, how far can you make it in the game? And a 'race' mode, where you can race through all the available levels. Both modes support multiplayer!

Again, this game was also inspired by the classic MS-DOS game 'Mamba'. The concept comes from Bert Uffen and is a twist on the original snake game.

'Mamba', the classic MS-DOS game released in 1989 by Bert Uffen.

The main menu is going to look something like this:

Mamba Classic 2 with Retro style enabled!

As you can see, it's going to be a BLAST! Good progress is being made. If you can't wait to try out this concept you can play Mamba Classic 1 on Itch.io for free! Head over to https://munnica.itch.io/mamba-classic to play it.

YouTube gameplay trailer coming soon!

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