Squaretron Goes Live, First Update Already Rolled

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(Free-Press-Release.com) February 1, 2012 -- Maybe you are not aware yet, but it’s time to meet Squaretron - a fast-paced and addictive arcade game by Avantmotion, developed for Facebook.

The goal of Squaretron is to maneuver the hero square and catch as many ally squares as possible while avoiding enemy squares at any cost. The whole game is about fast moving squares, attacking from every direction. The white rotating square is the hero of the game, in other words you, the player. The white square moves with your mouse. Ally squares are cyan and enemy squares are fuchsia. A collision with an ally square gives you points, while a contact with the enemy square takes your life. You start the game with three lives but you can get more as you progress with the game. That’s all it – at the very first glance simple, yet extremely challenging!

Similarly to the game rules, Squaretron graphics are very modest and plain as well, yet appealing to even most refined taste players.

To make the simple gameplay more engaging and strained, Squaretron features exciting Power-ups helping you to increase your score, while hazardous power-downs are present too, aiming to reduce your score. Let’s discuss them separately:

There are number of exciting Power-ups featured in Squaretron. Some of them are more useful than others, but it’s not always rational to chase after them. It’s up to you to decide which power-ups you catch and which you just let go. Below you’ll find the list of Power-ups, helping you to increase your score:

• +1000 – simply gives you an extra thousand points;
• Slow Down – decreases the speed of the game. This power-up is especially useful at higher levels when the speed of the game is really high;
• Mini Square – decreases the size of your square. A smaller square helps you avoid enemy squares. The downside is that catching ally squares becomes difficult too. This power-up is useful when there more enemy squares on the screen;

• Floor – is an extremely useful power-up. When you get this power-up, a floor appears. Enemy squares pass through the floor while ally squares don’t. This means that all ally squares falling from top are conveniently collected on the floor and you can catch ‘em all easily;
• Freeze – stops all movement for three seconds. Nice power-up but be careful. Even though the squares are stopped, a contact with an enemy square will still take your life;
• Shield – this power-up makes your square invincible. While you have the shield, you can touch enemy squares;
• Extra Life – this power-up gives you an extra life.

As for Power-downs, they do make Squaretron difficult to play. You should try to avoid them as much as you can, but fortunately, Power-ups surpass Power-downs in Squaretron. Just in case you catch one of Power-downs accidentally, below you’ll find out what harm each causes you.

• -1000 – an opposite of +1000, deducting 1000 points from your score.
• Speed Up – increases game speed.
• Mega Square – increase your square size. This power-down makes your square larger and thus more vulnerable. On the good side, larger square helps you catch ally squares easily. So, this power-down is not that bad.
• All Enemy Squares – this power-down makes all squares enemy. In other words, any contact with any square takes your life. Luckily, this lasts only 6 seconds or so.

Shortly after going live, Squaretron has just been updated to version 0.9.2 Beta. The new version fixes the replay problem and improves gameplay performance. Only in case you improve your own high score, Facebook asks you to posts your progress story on your wall. Additionally, the Leaderboard Tab is also featured, allowing you to see player standings updated in real-time. Squaretron lets you challenge your friends, colleagues or just compete with others, beat the top scores and see yourself ranking first in the list!

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