By: Shawn McGrath
XIQ is a game about trapping. Your avatar can fire in 4 directions, creating lines. If those lines form a box, the badguys in the box are destroyed and you score points.
You:
Lines:
Triangles:
Regular:
Frozen:
Powerups:
Permanent:
Increase Line Length
Lower shot cooldown time
Temporary
Kill all Triangles:
Immunity
Move with the arrow keys or joystick and shoot in all four directions with wasd. Once you fire a bullet, it creates a trailing line. This line forms the edge of a box. Use four lines to create a box, trapping triangles inside.
All triangles inside a completed box get destroyed and you score points!
Any triangle touching a line will freeze in place until that line disappears. Once the line disappears the triangle becomes quite anxious to kill you, I suggest avoiding it.
The amount of points you get for a box is dependant on the size of the box and the number of triangles inside it. The smaller the box the better!
To score power ups just move your guy on top of them. The temporary powerups go away after after 5 seconds, so make sure you can get it before trying! The effects granted by the permanent ones stay after dying.
This game was made in a 3 day timespan by me, Shawn McGrath. It was made at the ToJam event. Check out the site for the other games.
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I'm not making any gameplay changes. I want to keep it exactly how it was after three days. I will however correct any bugs. If you come across a bug, please email me with a description and how I can recreate it, (if possible).
The songs were generously provided by The Vulcan Dub Squad and Queasy Games. I stole all the sound effects from Kenta Cho.
