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Good game, pretty adictive
So...Many...Moths! I hate those things! They are homewreckers.
When things get complicated later in the game, Arachnophilia will hang for short amounts of time, then start working again *IF* you don't click all over the place once it stops responding. If it slows down to a crawl or freezes, don't click on anything, and it will usually (under Firefox 3.0 anyway) come back again just fine... Until it needs to calculate a change in your web again.
Wow, sorry Tasha. I'm using Firefox 3.0 under WinXP sp3, with a dual core 1.8GHz CPU and 2GB of RAM. I had more problems with crashes before upgrading to firefox 3, if you haven't already, I'd suggest doing so. It's much more memory efficient and (so far) very stable.
Also, I should emphasize that the corner web in the last panel of that 'tutorial' is too dense, and caused my machine to briefly hang a few times as I finished it. Somewhere about halfway in between the density of the 2nd to last and last corner webs would be best.
... I always get so many flies that they ruin the whole web and then I don't get any...
but if I pass that the bird comes and tares the whole thing apart in one hit
lol thanks Ivo! Your web crashed my comp twice!
Folks have expressed enough interest in my strategy that I've created a graphic of my web building technique - http://remarque.org/~ivo/Arachnophilia-Ivo-strategy.jpg
Admittedly that's only one part of the whole strategy, but I think it's one that's hardest to describe in text.
Another aspect of the game that's challenging, in a subtle way, is making sure to not build *too much web* since the game slows down based on web complexity and number of bugs on screen. Early on you need three corners, then later you only need (and can handle) two corners. Have fun!
for waterpolodude.
the way to catch a stag beetle is to make alot of webbing so that atleast five strands of webbing are attached to it, then kill it. have a good time, hope you win.lol
s0ulreaper3, I totaly agree with you, it always brings those destructive moths, my suggestion is to eat the fireflies a fast as you can. hope you win as well.
this game freaken rocks, but I wish that the freaken dragon flies wouldnt tear everthing apart.
This game is really fun, but I always die by the time I eat like 3 dragonflys.
this game is frigin awsome but cant get past the damn humming birds!!!
OMFG... i kept getting to the ****ing Bat and it ruins the whole game!! i'm gonna KILL THAT BAT.
kool game hard nd fun at the same time i like hard games :D:D its sooo kool :P i just want to get to bat lol highest i got level 6 or 7 :P very nice game tho
omg!! i finally saw the bat! it scared the crap outa me and wrecked my whole web
fly - 5p Humming bird 500p
lady- 15p
bee - 25p BAT 2500p
beetle 50p
dragon 30p
queen 25p
butterfly 300p *fanatic* (:
WoW, this game isn really hard, all u hae to know is that u build all over the map in beginning, but eave one corner completey empty, and when the beetles come u make that corner in yelow web only.
Aftr that u let everything be destroyed so u can do the same to the other 3 corners, the best made corber u stack butterflies and dragonflies and eat the rest rapidly, only build new web when u got a complete corner destroyed and build it again with yellow and u can go on forever.
what kills u tho is the lag ... my spider stopped moving at 144k even tho i had all 4 corners and lots of food ... oh well u have to make huge pauses to avoid it i guess i only had 2 short.
newguy is right. tou can last alot longer if u just protect the corners. doont use the middle at all. alot less bugs will hit your net,and you wont get ovwe whelmed, and u will last alot longer.
btw eirc, i think the order is flies, lady bugs, bees, stag beetle, fire fly/moth, queen bee, dragon fly, butter fly, humming bird, the bat.
What are the order of bug I know it got Fly then Ladybugs and so on but what are the order of the bugs..
someone plase answer me
I've been playing for an hour or so the last three nights (pausing and continuing the same game), but have to reboot my computer for work purposes today. I was at 422k as of last night, so I took a screen capture, then played for a bit to see how long I could survive without maintaining the web. I finally starved at 445k, but could have gone indefinitely.
If anyone wants to see the screen shots or ask questions, email me at ivolucien at geemail dot calm. I used three corners early on, then down to two mainly yellow corner webs after about 50k.
Wow, this game is awesome. It has all the elements that a game should have. It has good music and good effects. It has a good storyline, and it helps us be more aware of nature. It is suitable for most people - it has a lot of random clicking for those people who like action games, and it also requires some thinking, planning, and engineering skills. It is also very addicting.
mr admin guy, i enjoyed this game, it was fun but very frustrating. could you please put a continue option that will refuel my health and webbing and will reset my score or something? if so i will be happy. thanks in advance.
DID THIS GAME JSUT GOT HARDER WTF!?
the bees can take out massive amounts of web and u almost never catch them, and fireflies hit in packs with 1-4 at a time aargh! i play this a couple of days ago and got a good score for a noob almsot got a bat but now its impossible cos if u eat 3 fireflies the last one gets the whole web
Oh, and the main reason that it's very hard to get scores beyond a certain point (60-120k depending on your machine) is that the game starts lagging horribly. My highscore (171k) took almost four hours to achieve, but I played it as 5 or 6 separate sessions, with long pause breaks while I did other things.
Each interconnected section of web has some sort of overall strength, beyond what the red stress lines show you. If you have too many things on that overall section of web, the whole thing can vanish when the "final straw / dragonfly" lands on it. The suggestions that talk about doing corner webs allow for one (separate) section of web to be destroyed and leave you with one or more sections of web remaining. ^_^
WHY DOES THAT ONE DRAGONFLY TAKE OUT EVERYTHING?
Oh well.
I feel your pain.
dang, finally get to the level with the bat and he flies through and destroys my whole web and i run out of web and health
I only got to hummingbirds and none of them actually appeared before I died. : (
Make the web in corners only... 2 corners will do. Forget about remaining web. Keep eating everything that gets caught in web (eat fireflies & queen-bees quickly!).
15k... not a big score but ate a couple of bats and would've probably survived for quite long since I stashed up some lady bugs & flies in a corner. Careful where you keep this stash as you don't want to weaken the web too much... in a corner right next to tree is a good spot.
And when waiting for insects, keep weaving and clicking on flies to form your queue. If something urgent (firefly, queen-bee, bat) comes along then hit space to break the queue so you can eat that first. Forget about centre bats, the easiest to catch are the more "tree-side" so bide your time and wait for those.
Great game, Teale. I'm looking forward to seeing more of your work.
Soooo frustrating! I hate fireflies..
fireflies are fine, its those stupid queen bees that really get you
i finally ate the bat!! i am so excited!! lol.. i have been obsessed with this game ever since the acheivments have came out!
I got really bored with this game the 1st time i played it, but the achievements brought me back, now I realize how fun it is, good job admin and friend.
actually sarah your wrong. A great strategy is to totally avoid the center of the box and get the corners and sort of make a circle in the middle with no web in it. Thats the big mistake that beginners make is trying to fill the whole area with the web but you have too many captured bugs that way and eventually they overwhelm your web and it all falls apart and its impossible to recover. Ive gotten 100,000 before but i could get way more i just stopped because it was getting boring since i had been playing for like 2 and a half hours.
damn fierflies..! they ruin everything :P
Died when the web disappeared and I couldn't move my spider. I was saving the yummy hummingbirds and bat for leftovers... Ah well, another time perhaps.
This score was achieved using an orb around the outer edge of the screen. There is a way to overlap strands very close together if you get a very narrow angle and join strands away from endpoints. Have fun!
I got 2 dragon flies b4 i died my advice is keep ur center REALLY STRONG AT ALL TIMES then branch out. P.S although fire flies attract alot of bugs eat them fast...2 many bugs totally wreak ur web thats what heppend 2 me!
Gahh!
Rly cool game but now I got annoyed:P I got score of 47k and I couldn't submit it since I was not logged in. And when I pressed "log in" my score dissapeared:(
I can't catch stag beetles. Any suggestions.
Hi I tlayed this game and it's great, problem is, im terrible at it, can't even get past the queen bees, acually, so I was wondering if it would be possible for the creator to add a causal mode to it, a mode where you have infinite web or health, or both, but you won't get any points, this way even those wo aren't all that good at this game could get to see the bat and sutch, if you added that this game would be perfect in my opinion, more perfect then it already is, that is
hmmmm, i noticed that the web falls appart when the middle intersection is destroyed, so my suggestion is to make a strong middle web, instead of protecting a corner.
Games addicting.
ok the scores just went crazy insane... it took over an hour for me to get my 75000 score... I don't even want to know how long it takes to get 300 000!
Same here, i love this game but am really bad at it
Ok I need some tips for this game. I terribly suck at it because all these moths and bees always kill my web.
how do I avoid these situations?
no i think that happened to me but it might be when there are bugs on the web and when it is was destroyed they seem to stay there. I had to build a string to them to eat them because one was a firefly and the moths killed me.
mhuzzell, if you're experiencing glitches make sure you've updated to the the latest version of the Flash Player. If that doesn't help, we might have to blame your computer :)
After about an hour of play, the game always seems to start freezing up and malfunctioning... insects get caught in the middle of nowhere, for instance -- which is pretty annoying when they're fireflies or queen bees. Does this happen to anyone else, or could it just be my computer?
lol cool game gets a bit boring though lol i got 100,040 but i thought it was first lol becuase for some reason my highscore board was old. oh well lol
It was a nice game, but it just never got any harder. The bugs came pretty much at the same rate at Level 41 as Level 10. I only stopped because by that time I was bored out of my mind.
Have fun playing this game everyone.
oh man i am so hungry! got 85 000 at 1 am last night, dreamt all night about vector flies getting caught in my web (and that continuous munching) and with bleary red eyes made it to 130 000 this morning and decided 'alright, i've got an essay due tomorrow, and i'm hungry, i'll just leave my web, no more fixing and see how far i get'.. 45 000 points later and i figure i can always come back next week and see who's up the top =)
*woot my first top score in any game ever, its made my day, 'thanks for webbing with teale! please fly again soon!'*
*munch munch* spiders rule
Afiag - You might say this is an Alaskan spider, because I'm Alaskan myself. But lots of the enemies in the game, including stag beetles and humming birds, don't live up there, at least as far north as Fairbanks, where I'm from.
bigheeno - There actually is a facebook group about the game. Feel free to join, and of course invite all your friends:)
mhuzzell - As you found out, to fix the crashing you can upgrade to the latest version of flash. I'm afraid I can't help you with the mis-clicking problem, though. I think playing in full screen is your best bet.
Don't forget to digg the game if you enjoy playing it!
Lol. I didn't have trouble feeding the spider, i had trouble eating all the bugs!
This game is awesome (one of very few I've ever been good at!), but it keeps closing while I'm in the middle of playing. The first time, internet explorer froze, when I was at 17-thousand-something. I downloaded the new flash which seemed to fix that.
Then, playing again, I accidentally clicked on the 'Dig Your Own Grave' headline bar, just over the top of the game, and it redirected me to another page -- I was at 73-thousand-something points. It happened again just now -- when I had 115-thousand-something!
Is there a way to fix this, besides playing in full screen?
so cool, want on my facebook or somewhere i can share it XD, aboslutely love it, its my new favourite time filler while procrastinating over assignments!.. maybe its like a canadian spider.. they do things differently up there.. damn bees..
i really like this game and find it extremely addictive. for me the best strategy was to construct a "C" shaped web around the edges of the trees, ignoring the middle other than the occasional travel line from the top of the C to the bottom. I ate three bats!!!
I'm assuming that this spider lives in Alaska during the dark months or something, because daylight never comes. That, and I doubt a spider could eat several bats and hummingbirds all in one night. [Among the insane amounts of insects.]
Yay! I've eaten two bats the last time; Total of three of the whole gameplay - Not the same day, of course ...
Of course, two Queen Bees came by, my web turned out to be too small in the end, and no bugs on it ... So I couldn't replenish my life in time. And no other bugs come by when a Queen Bee's on the web. So bad luck for me ...
Haha
Teale, nice job with the game. It's a lot of fun!
Fun. I just made a really strong web in the corner and i survived. Only problem is that i was always in danger of starvation. Great game.
Man. Kicked off the score list! Well, its good while it lasts ...
I would Digg it. However, for the moment, I cannot ... But it simply is a fun, addicting game! I do think I'll never get tired of it ... Despite my small fear of spiders. Gotta work that out ...
Thanks for checking out the game everyone! If you enjoy it, please digg it. The more people who know about the game, the more likely that you'll get more quality content like this from Dig Your Own Grave!
Digg It!
Thank you for the link Nika! I was unaware of the forum as you can tell.
i...i...have nothing bad to say about that comment..
for once.
kudos.
Great comment, Legendin.
No need to apologize about the length, but feel free to discuss the topic on the Forum where your insightful thoughts about the game will find a grateful audience. :)
I am very impressed with this game. In my opinion, it is very well designed.
It is original, simple, and educational without sacrificing entertainment value. The interface is very streamline and intuitive. Most people think simple controls are a given in flash games, but I can point you to many that are not so sleek in their interface. I especially like that you can que your moves ahead.
The game itself is very simple with clear instructions and clear explanations of what the enemies do. The designer didn't try to add too many upgrades, abilities, or meters to watch. There is definitely power in simplicity and I think a lot of game designers forget this.
Choice is the essence of strategy and this games offers a lot of choice. You can build your web in any way and eat the enemies you catch in any order of your choice. The only random element is how the enemies spawn, which doesn't downgrade the strategic element and is good for replay value. I'm sure there are only a few strategies that are really effective, but at least the game lets you explore and experiment on your own to find them.
The difficulty curve progresses in a nice linear fashion consisting of the introduction of new enemies, all sporting different abilities, with each new level. After all the enemies have been added then the game attempts to overwhelm you then, when failing at that, starving you. And, trust me, it will starve you at some point.
In my opinion, one downfall is the length of time it takes to play. The difficulty curve is very good but plateaus after the introduction of the bat until it starts it's linear progression again when the game begins to starve you around level 23. The starvation should kick in a sooner to shorten the length of the game and make the difficulty continuously linear.
How the enemies stack when they hit your web is also important and I think the enemies that hit later should stack below the enemies that had hit before them. That way moths wouldn't cover up fireflies, for example, so you could eat them before things get too out of hand.
The last, really nit-picky thing, is the que line when you are building a new web strand. It really shouldn't be broken. The line should be solid blue, or another bright color, because sometimes I make really short web additions and no line appears because the unshaded part of the broken line, not the blue part, is the one that is marking the addition. That makes it look like I did nothing at all.
I apologize for the long comment. I like to talk about game design in an educational fashion. I'd love to hear other opinions. I look forward to a sequel.
Was going for 100,000 but clicked on a Queen Bee when I was at low life and died. Just goes to show you have to be careful where you click sometimes.
It does eat a lot, but think about the enormous amount of webbing it sh**s.
W00T! A legend among spiders? Sounds pretty cool.
But that spider bites more than he can chew. I mean, a small spider the size of a ladybug eating queen bees, dragonflies, beetles, bats and much more? I find it weird how much this spider can eat.
My epic web was catching too many bugs that i couldn't eat fast enough, so it just all fell
ok this game is definitely cheating, becasue everytime I get going, an entire swarm of who knows what shows up, and takes out my entire web, so i dont have any food or webbing and I die.
btw, great game admin!
@ Legendin:
Thanks for the useful tips I built on the 4 corners and got 4th place. Very good strategy :)
Huzzah! Ate two bats, and made it up in the 20,000's! Okay, my goal's complete. Time for a break ... Haha
Good luck, peoples!
I got a plan now! Now all I have to do is successfully pull it off...
I've finally gotten past it all ... And in the 16,000's, too!
Half my web destroyed, low of life, and I was 'smart' enough to eat a Qeen bee ... Hmm. There's my problem! Didn't get to eat a bat yet ...
Haha
And yeah, those Moths get to be a pain ...
MASSIVE OVERLOAD!!! My web was too big and too strong until I couldn't find the fireflies under the moths...
Yeah. Tends to be a messy-web - But I was going good and long in the last one. Until there were a bit too many Lightning bug, and a mass of moths destroyed my perfect web ...
Always the moths.
if stuff as big as dragon flies are still breaking your webs, then your not making them strong enough...
I like my gold, so that's all the help your getting from me!
Haha
Now I've been having trouble getting anywhere past the Queen Bee level. Perhaps I need a break, going soo many hours straight on this game ..
Its addicting!
It seems we're getting some pretty in-depth strategies for this game. :P That's definitely a good sign for something as simple as a flash game...
Awesome game, like I said on the forums.
M'hm. The corner-webs are doing me good, except when it comes to Queen Bees, Dragon Flies, and other large, strong animals they tend to break them down easily ...
Making 4 very strong mini-webs in the corners is definitely the way to go. At least that's what got me as far as I did. Even if 1 or 2 go down you still have the others bringing in some food. Don't worry about making them look nice. Just build them as messy and as strong as possible. You can expand toward the center once they are stable enough.
Your eating order is very important as well. I always eat fireflies first, because moths are a pain in the ass. Queen bees are second, because the bees spawn toward the middle of the area and not where the queen bee actually is, unlike moths with fireflies. Bees come next, because for as small as they are they put an abnormally large amount of stress on the web. Then after that I eat things in decreasing order of size that put the most strain on my web: bats, hummingbirds, dragonflies, beetles, and moths. Butterflies toward the end since they take so long. Finally lady bugs.
I actually don't eat the flies at all if I can help it. They put hardly any strain on your web and they are great to save when you are about to starve or need more web to build. I will only eat them for clean-up if they get way too messy or congested.
Aww, JKybett, you beat my score! If only I was thinking the one time I got 6,000 some, and sent that in ... Lol
I've gotten up to the Bats until I starved. My webs tend to be always a mess ...
Afiag, I do the same thing, but I always end up with a mess ... Now I've been going for webs at the corners and sides, occasionally the middle ...
Oh, I do love this. It's so fun. And I get all proud of myself when I repair my half ruined web.
So far I haven't really stuck with a web scheme, I just kinda make it one big mess. Initially I do tend to go for classic web style, since obviously it works for spiders in real life.
WOW! I got 10th place! This is the happiest day of my life :)
This game is addicting, fun, and holds some great facts ... I actually had been looking for a game related to a Spider's life on the web ...
Oh, the fun! :p
Sadly, my very 'wild' web was soon destroyed by Queen Bees and Moths ... Leaving me with a small corner, until the Butterflies finished me off. Haha
Ugh.. I suck :(
It takes sooo long too, but its still a good game.
I actually learned stuff in thisgame with the facts button. Great addition to the DYOG games.
so taco likes mudkips....
just not awesome games that take time
Wow, it takes so long,
I hate those fireflys. A few always come then a whole bunch of moths come and my whole web falls apart. Fun game though.
The game was actually created by a friend of mine, Teale Fristoe. I only helped a little bit :)
Im really impressed, this game is awesome
Keep up the good