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KolobokForest Rush

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Kolobok rolled into the forest. This one does not sing. He rolls.

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Kolobok: Forest Rush

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About

Get up to speed — or become lunch.

Kolobok, the little bread ball, rolled away from Grandma and Grandpa straight into a forest where the old tale is still warm: hares, wolves and bears are hungry, and the fox is already waiting. But this Kolobok does not sing. He rolls.

Build speed and smash into the animals: at full tilt a bread ball knocks anything flying, while a slow one is lunch. Eat the crumbs they drop, grow, and pick a new crust at every level — heavy, buttery, spiked, steaming or poppy-seeded. Rare cards change the rules themselves.

The waves never stop, and each is fiercer than the last. The daily run gives everyone the same forest, and the weekly and daily leaderboards are waiting for anyone who types a name.

Every sprite, map tile and sound is generated at runtime: the game ships no images and no audio files at all.

Bosses and seasons

The Fox — wave ten

Lurks at the screen edge, lays snares and pounces when you are slow. Comes back on waves 30 and 50, stronger each time.

Not singing.
Winter — from wave fifteen

Snow takes the forest, puddles freeze, grip goes. Bears sleep in the snow, and waking one is a choice. Eight waves later, the thaw.

Winter is coming. The night is dark and full of wolves.
Baba Yaga — wave twenty

Flies in her mortar: a rolling loaf cannot reach what is in the air. Throws the pestle, sweeps with the broom and whistles for magpies. The fight is the seconds she spends on the ground.

A mortar? Seriously?

What is in it

The animals

Under each, a line from the end-of-run screen. There are two or three per animal, and you get the one you earned.

Crusts

Three cards at every level. Eighteen crusts, three of which rewrite the rules. Under every rule — one line of wit, the way the card shows it in the game.

Heard in the forest

The song

The first animal of each kind you smash earns its line. The victory screen sings the whole couplet.

I got away from Grandma, I got away from Grandpa, and from the hare, and from the wolf, and from the hedgehog, and from the boar, and from the magpie, and from the viper, and from the bear, and from you, Fox, all the more!

The Fox asks for a song on wave ten. In the tale, Kolobok sang. Here he does not.

Over the roof

Grandma and Grandpa, at every warm-up by the stove — one of five.

  • Grandma:burrs again?
  • Grandpa:don't sing to the fox. Or anyone.
  • Grandma:cool down, then roll.
  • Grandpa:the stove is warm, the forest is not.
  • Grandma:roll off again and I stop baking.

The house heals and burns venom out. But the whole forest can smell fresh bread.

Kolobok himself

Once a run per event: the first bite, a ten-streak, water, ice, the Fox, Yaga, winter.

  • Ow! That was my crust!
  • I'm bread, you know!
  • Not me. Momentum.
  • Bread and water. Bad mix.
  • Ice! Brakes are for others.
  • Not singing.
  • Winter is coming.
  • The North remembers. So do the wolves.

Never over a wave banner and never more than one in twenty seconds: the rule comes first.

Achievements

Thirty-six. Each gives only its name, not the task; the name is usually enough of a hint.

How to play

Drag anywhere on the screen: Kolobok rolls where you lead, with momentum. A second finger taps to dash. On a computer roll with WASD or the arrows and dash with Space.

Watch the speed gauge at the bottom. Until it lights up you are slow and the animals bite. Get up to speed and hit them: the animal tumbles away and drops crumbs.

Water bogs you down, fire burns but also dries a soaked Kolobok. The house in the forest heals and burns venom out — but the smell of fresh bread pulls the whole forest after you.

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