To the last two commenters - the strings you make drag the ball around. Like elastic bands. You have to swing like spiderman around the screen and stay in the middle.
The concept for the competition was a game within 60 seconds - I might bring out a separate game with more levels - not for the competition probably with items to collect and stuff like that - time trial could be quite good - what do you reckon?
The game was submitted for a competition on Mochi - hence the mochileaderboard - thanks for the comments guys - out of interest does it lag at all on your computers?
Thanks for the feedback, like I said I made the game about 3 years ago back in the days of AS2 and Macromedia (not Adobe) lol. Pressing skip increases your total time at the end so it isn't advantageous at all if you want to get a high score. I might one day bring out an improved version of this game now that I've learnt a bit more programming! We'll see :p Thanks for the feedback anyway!
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