spiderboy

finalblot

About this game

spiderboy - some webs are meant to solve puzzles
Test your strategy and reflexes in spiderboy - a high-octane arcade puzzle game featuring sketchy hand-drawn aesthetics, dynamic conveyor mechanics, and fast-paced web-slinging action.
Key Features
Hand-Drawn Arcade Visuals: Experience a neon-infused sketchbook style complete with graph paper textures, scanline overlays, and responsive SVG web-slinging animations.
Dynamic Shifting Belt: The middle row functions as a moving conveyor belt that shifts left and right at scaling speeds as the board clears.
Tactical ASCII Deck: Play with 27 total symbols consisting of 13 matching symbol pairs and 1 Wildcard (!).
Thwip & Stack Mechanics: Launch symbols top-down or bottom-up across corridors to clear matches or manage expanding cell stacks.
Custom Audio Synthesizer: Built-in web twangs, match chimes, and heavy stack placement sound effects.
Full Player Control: Choose between manual draft picking or instant Auto-Fill, with an Undo Action buffer to fix mistakes.
How to Play
Phase 1: Setup — Place 27 ASCII symbols onto the 3x10 board manually using the draft hand or automatically with the "FILL AUTO" button. Strategic middle-row rules apply: maximum 7 filled cells with no duplicate pairs allowed during setup.
Phase 2: Stream — Press "PLAY STREAM" to activate the middle row conveyor. The speed dynamically scales up to 500% as symbols disappear.
Phase 3: Thwip & Shoot — Tap any symbol in the top row to drop down (↓) or bottom row to shoot up (↑) through middle row corridors.
Phase 4: Clear or Stack — Hitting an identical twin symbol or firing the Wildcard (!) clears the symbols from the board. Unmatched hits stack on top of target cells. Clear all 27 symbols off the grid to win!

What’s new

Shoot up. Shoot Down. Match. Watch the Gaps. Clear the Screen.