Herder – a one button web game
Hi everyone. I know that it’s been a very, very long time since I last posted. I’ve been doing some thinking about the direction that this site should take, and I was able to make some “preliminary decisions” in the process, which I hope to explain more in a future post.
In the meantime, I would like to present my most recent project, Herder, which you can now play online using any Java-enabled browser. Basically, this is a port of one of the Python/Pygame projects that I did before, and is my first project made with the Processing programming environment, which I’m trying to learn to use at the moment.
I’d love to hear about what you think about the game, and I would really appreciate any comments and suggestions that you may have. Please post them below. Thank you so much for trying out Herder, and I hope you liked it. 
License
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September 30th, 2007 at 1:36 am
Great game still! Would love to get hold of the updated version too: http://softwarecommunity.intel.com/gamecontest/EntryDetails.aspx?EntryID=253
Good luck in the competition,
Barrie
May 8th, 2008 at 8:19 am
[...] it has been a very long time since I posted on Python. As I have said some time earlier, I’m trying to refocus this site to deal with more general game development. A side effect of [...]
July 17th, 2008 at 8:10 pm
Hello! I love this game, but what happened to the high score? I’ve been trying to beat spf all week.
July 17th, 2008 at 8:38 pm
… looks like I spoke too soon. High scores are back. sorry!
May 17th, 2009 at 4:44 pm
Hi,
I’m just loving this game…my question is what makes the “snake” bigger or smaller?…i cant seem to figure out the reason…i keep catching the bubbles, but at a certain point, the snake starts getting smaller, and there seems to be no stopping it at that point. What am i missing?
May 18th, 2009 at 7:34 am
Hi Gatt, thank you for playing the game and I’m glad you like it! To answer your question, the snake gets bigger whenever you herd rings, and it just keeps getting smaller and smaller over time, so you have to keep on herding rings to maintain your length. The speed at which the snake shortens increases over time.