99 Nights
Chop wood by day, keep the fire lit by night, bring the lost kids home.
About 99 Nights
You wake up at a campfire in the middle of a forest with an axe on a stump and a few logs left in the fire. The rules are simple: the fire burns one log every twenty seconds, wolves come out at night, and wolves do not enter firelight. Everything else follows from that. Days are for chopping trees and hauling logs, nights are for staying inside the ring of light and swinging the axe at anything that gets too close.
Somewhere out there kids are lost. Each day one of them calls for help; follow the marker, take them by the hand and walk them back to the fire. Every rescued kid makes each night you survive count for one more on the score, so the risk of going deep into the forest by day pays off at dawn. The run ends when the wolves get you; the score is how many nights you made it through.
Questions
- How is the score counted?
- Each dawn adds 1 night, plus 1 for every kid you have rescued so far. Two rescued kids mean every night counts as three.
- What happens when the fire goes out?
- Its light is gone and wolves come into camp. Get a log into it as fast as you can — one log relights it — and the ring of light comes back.
- Do wolves ever enter the light?
- No. As long as the fire burns they circle at the edge of the ring and wait. They hunt anyone outside it, so at night keep your trips short.
- Is the forest the same every time?
- Yes. The trees, bushes and camp are laid out from a fixed seed, so runs are comparable and the trees you learn to rely on are always there.
- Do I need physics for this one?
- No — this mode runs on the same engine but without rigid bodies. It loads fast and runs on a phone.
