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Nibble.
Eat, grow, don’t bite yourself. Arrow keys or WASD to steer, space to pause; on a phone, swipe the screen or use the pad. Every fifth bite a bug turns up, worth more the quicker you catch it.
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Nibble is Snake, the game that came on Nokia phones from 1997 (and older still in the arcades). It isn’t ours; it’s here to show what a game built in plain JavaScript can do in a browser.
What it shows
- A canvas drawn one LCD pixel at a time, scaled to stay crisp on any screen
- A fixed game tick that speeds up as you eat, with turns queued so quick taps count
- Arrow keys, WASD, swipes and an on-screen pad for touch screens
- Beeps synthesised with the Web Audio API, no audio files
- Pauses itself when you switch tabs
- Your best score for each edge mode, kept on your device