Constant motion is a collection of small mini-games with the one common characteristic that you can never stop moving! The game includes online scoreboards, experimental language translations, many statistics, several configuration options and more. Below is a list of games currently available. You will find a description, as well as an audio demo of each game.
1. Avoid the Arrows
Run forward and avoid the archers intent on finishing you off with their arrows! You will hear an arrow launch from either the left, the center or the right. Hold in the arrow key needed to set your shield in that position to block the incoming arrow.
2. Endless Cave
You are running through a very dangerous cave that seems to have no end! Press the up arrow key to jump over pits, hold in the down arrow key to duck under the lethal bats, and when you are near a rock, press enter to destroy it before you run into it and fall flat on your face. Just a hint, it may be a good idea to jump over pits when you are right on the edge of them, rather than when you hear the first gravel footsteps. Also, it is worth noting that you can only duck for a little over a second at a time, so you will need to time it correctly when avoiding bats!
3. BoulderRoad
You are running forward on a narrow road that slopes. Large boulders are constantly rolling towards you, and you must move out of the way with the left or right arrow keys to avoid them! Also, however, you must avoid the large stationary bricks dotting the road. These bricks can sometimes be several tiles wide, but they are not all bad as boulders will smash into them if they encounter one. A hint from the developer though… boulders just kind of have this tendency to sometimes spawn right in front of you, just to make this fun.
4. Zigzag
What kind of sick experiment is this! It appears you’re now little more than a lab rat in function, being forced to run through this narrow maze of electrical fences where one misstep will mean your rather instant demise. The fences are laid out in rectangles with gaps between them appearing intermittently on either side of you, meaning you must use your left and right arrows to navigate through the gaps to keep moving forward while avoiding even slight contact with any of the fences. If you fail to recognize and follow an opening, you will run face first into the fence in front of you, and can turn into a pile of ash with the sure knowledge that you’ve given whoever set up this mess one sparktacular light show indeed!
5. Electrified Acid
Oh no, the messed up experiments continue! You are running through an endless sort of arena filled with puddles of unbelievably concentrated acid, walled in by a rather familiar sequence of zigzagging electric fences. As you are running forward, use the left and right arrow keys to avoid the bubbling puddles while making your way through the maze. If you make even a little bit of contact with the acid, nothing will remain of you but a lot of nasty smoke. Also, if you favor not turning into an overdone mcnugget, you probably don’t want to walk too close to the electrified fences which you will need to navigate around. By electrified, try a few hundred thousand volts. You won’t survive a nanosecond if you come in contact with the fences. Hmmm… I wonder what would do you in quicker? the acid or the fences. Anyway, good luck!
6. Fire Escape
Time for a classic arrow mashing game. A fire is rapidly approaching from the left. You will automatically run away from it, but not fast enough. So mash that right arrow key as fast as you can and let’s see how long you can last! Also, just a very helpful hint, you can also mash the spacebar. So if you can mash the spacebar and the right arrow key at the same time, you can get going pretty fast.
7. Gatebuttons
You are running forward on a concrete lot separated by a seemingly endless amount of closed gates. Scattered randomly all over the lot are buttons. In order to open the gate ahead, you need to press all of the buttons by centering them with the arrow keys and walking over them. If you fail to press one of the buttons by the time you reach the gate, it will remain closed and you will slam into it causing the game to end. Of course, you will also need to avoid the bricks dotting the lot, but these are usually on its edge, so if you don’t stray away from the buttons, you should be OK. You do have 1 thing going for you though. Every 30 seconds, you are able to press the enter key to teleport back about 10 tiles. Use this wisely! Every time you teleport, your score will drop! If you want to save time with the cost of increased risk, you can hold down the space bar at any time to move twice as fast as normal.
8. Spellshield
Do you remember avoid the arrows? Well, now it’s time to play avoid the spells! You must run along the path, blocking the different elemental spells that are being fired at you. The different spells are fire, ice and water. You need to cast the opposite elemental spell to act as a shield. Spells will come from the left, the middle and the right. When you hear a spell, you must first hold in either control for fire, shift for ice or alt for water, then press the left, up or right arrow keys respectively to cast the spell you’ve selected. Remember, you need to cast the opposite of whatever spell is being cast against you. If an ice spell is cast, you need to cast a fire spell to melt it. If a fire spell is cast, cast a water spell to put it out. And if a water spell is cast, cast an ice spell to act as a barrier between you and the water. Be sure to hold in only one spell selector key at once when casting, doing otherwise such as by holding in control + shift was always discouraged in your magic lessons for some reason you’re too busy fleeing to remember. Good luck!
9. Scuba Diving Gone Wrong
Your decision to test new state of the art scuba gear may have been the worst one you ever made! This equipment was designed to be very portable. Small thrusters propel you easily through the water, and you have constant air to breathe. Unfortunately, the thruster on your back, thus the one that makes you move forward, has ceased to function properly, and you can’t figure out how to turn it off! As a result, you are constantly forced to move forward! The test involved you moving around a very large wheel shaped object that had obstacles you were supposed to avoid. There are spare tanks all over the place to keep a constant supply of gases to keep you alive and to keep you moving. But there are also wires above your head that stop TNT charges from blowing up and thus killing you, thus you need to duck under these with the down arrow key so you don’t run into them and break the circuit. Of course that isn’t all, next are long drains under you that are large enough to suck you down into them if you don’t use the up arrow key to perform something similar to a jump with a thruster under your feet, and then there are large brick walls that you need to move left or right around so you don’t faceplant into them. Your gear comes with a sonar, so whenever a wall is found in front of you, you will hear a beeping noise somewhere in the stereo field, which represents the wall’s center of mass. You will want to learn to recognize this sound because it will surely mean the difference between life and death when dealing with walls. Of course when the test was devised, you were supposed to be able to stop moving, making it much easier than it will be now! However, you then have to deal with the supply of gas you have. There are 2 types of tanks, nitrogen tanks which both provide pressure and allow the thrusters of your gear to work, and oxygen tanks which you of course need to not die. Just center a tank to automatically pick it up when you run into it. You can press n or o to see how much of each gas you have. If you run out of either, the game ends and you will suffocate or become permanently trapped underwater!
10. Constant Christmas
Oh no, Santa has a problem, and, unfortunately, you’re Santa! A team of bats have escaped from the endless cave and have crashed into your sleigh while you were in the air over a house delivering Christmas gifts, scattering your load of presents far and wide! It’s already taken you long enough to calm the reindeer down enough to continue the journey, and so now you must hurry! You must collect your scattered load of presents as you sleigh along by centering them with your arrow keys before you pass them, while avoiding obstacles like trees, commercial buildings, muddy areas and belltowers. You can press g to check how many gifts you are carrying. When you hear a residential household, you must press space to command the reindeer to make the sleigh jump high into the air, holding in space the higher you want to jump. When you’re above the house (represented by its pitch increasing), begin pressing enter to deliver gifts to that house. For each gift dropped, a small bling sound will play at an increasing pitch to indicate delivery progress to that house, and a much more aggressive bling sound will play when you’ve delivered enough gifts there. Increasingly large bonuses are scored the more accurately you deliver the gifts, and points are lost if you lose gifts by dropping them far to the ground below by missing the house you are aiming for or by dropping off more gifts than are required at any given house. Be careful not to jump too far behind a house, as your sleigh is no longer equipped to land on them due to those wretched bats and it’s thus game over if you make contact! Commercial buildings can similarly be jumped, but no gifts are ever delivered to them. Belltowers are too tall to be jumped and so must be navigated around, but unfortunately these are where a great many of your lost gifts seem to have collected for some reason. Trees can sometimes be jumped if they are short enough, but they are also much more narrow objects that can be skirted more easily than other obstacles. If you hear a slushy muddy sound, you must jump immediately lest your sleigh gets stuck! Oh and those bats? They’re still after you, but now you’ve got your trusty old one shot Remington ready which you can fire at an incoming bat with the control key and reload by pressing r. Finally just encase you thought you could skip out on the gift delivery entirely, your reindeer run on joy which is derived from the successful delivery of a gift and can be checked with the j key, so you’ll slow down the longer a delivery is not made and will eventually stop! Heh you thought being Santa was easy and relaxing? Dream on, buddy.
11. Defusal to the Death
You are running through a narrow passage full of active timebombs set to explode in the near future, one after another. Your only hope is to collect each bomb and disarm it before it goes off, as each one is strong enough to destroy the entire structure and kill you. To disarm a bomb, you must guess it’s security code after you pick it up. Luckily the security systems on these bombs are laughably simple, with the code only consisting of 3 digits each one only from 1 to 3, and each one only appearing once. Press 1 to 3 on your keyboard after picking up a bomb to begin guessing it’s security code. You can pick up multiple bombs at a time, in which case you’ll disarm the oldest bomb first before moving on to the one you’ve most recently picked up. For a score penalty, you can press enter every so often to teleport back several squares encase you miss a bomb. Good luck!
12. Constant Cornfield Catastrophe
How in the world did this happen, your cornfield is on fire and it’s probably going to take your house with it. You have no time to lose! Armed with a large bucket of water, you rush into the burning cornfield with the intent of putting out the fire before it is too late. On your left is a brick dotted stream running alongside the field which you’ll refill your bucket in if you run into it, to your right is the beloved rustic home you spent long hard years building and which would probably knock you out if you ran into it at the speed you’re running, in front of you is the thick healthy area of your cornfield the fire hasn’t reached yet, and behind you is a solid wall of deadly fire which unfortunately closed up seconds after you ran through the opening in it to try to save your cornfield. Around you are a bunch of burning cornstalks rapidly spreading their flames to others, which you must extinguish by dumping water on by pressing enter behind one after filling your water bucket in the stream. When you run into the stream or the healthy field in front of you, you’ll automatically turn and run in the opposite direction. If you run into the house, the fire behind you, a brick, or into any of the burning cornstalks throughout the field, the game is instantly over! You can move in all 4 directions in this game by simply tapping any arrow key to direct your character to begin running in that direction. Now get going, the fire from those burning cornstalks is spreading quickly!
13. Color Collection
You are in a narrow passage, forced to run faster than you ever have before. In front of you are coins that are either red, green or blue. When you get near one, you must press either r, g or b depending on the color of the coin to store the coin in that slot. If you miss one, you can press enter every once and a while to teleport back for a second attempt at collecting it for a score penalty. Every once and a while you’ll come across registers where you must drop off the coins you’ve collected. If you miss the register, if you have missed a coin or if you’ve stored a coin in the wrong slot such as by picking up a red coin by pressing the b key, the register will explode and the game will be over. Good luck! Oh. Why are you forced to run at such a speed you ask? Well someone told you that if you collected all of the coins from this dangerous passageway, there’d be a free warm yummy cheese melt waiting for you at the end. And man you’re hungry! Too bad there isn’t an end in sight. you’re starting to wish you’d just stopped off at a seven-eleven or something…
14. Constant Distruction
In front of you are a series of high concrete walls that are blocking your progress. Since you can’t stop running, you must use a combination of various items you’ll be provided with along the way to destroy each wall before you run into it. Use the left and right arrow keys or tab and shift + tab to select between your available items, then press either up arrow or enter to use the item. Press space or down arrow on any item to get more information about it. Press w to hear the health of the next wall, and d to check your distance from it. Press h to check your own health. All items are strictly one-time-use no matter what. If you use a shield item while wearing a shield, your existing shield will be replaced with the new one. Unless an item works directly on your character such as a health drink or teleporter, it is intended to damage the wall and usually has the following attributes. Range, how many feet the item can be thrown before harmlessly missing the wall. Damage, how many health points are taken from the wall if the item hits it. Rolloff, how much the damage of this item is reduced per tile traveled. Splash, your character will receive increasing damage from this item the closer you are to it than this distance. When you walk through the rubble of a destroyed wall, you’ll collect new items to help you destroy the next one. You can only carry up to 7 items at a time, however. So if you already have 5 items left when picking up new items, you’ll only pick up 2 items. If you needed to use 6 items to destroy the last wall though, you’ll pick up 6 new items when you walk through its rubble. You are equipped with a basic radar that indicates when you are less than 15 feet from a wall, when an item has hit a wall, and when an item has destroyed a wall. Both you and the wall have 100 health, however the wall is made of concrete and you are a fragile human. Therefor when you hit a wall, you will lose 2 times the wall’s current health after the wall loses half of yours, and if your health reaches 0 or you run into a wall without destroying it, the game is over!