Free in your browser · phone, computer or TV · no download
Glow Worms
Eat the light. Outglow the cave.
Bots hold every empty seat · one tap and you are in
Phone · computer · TV
Play it on anything. Put it on the TV.
Nothing to download and nothing to install: Glow Worms runs in the browser you already have, and everyone who presses Play meets in the same public room.
On your phone
Drag from the lower left to move. Hold FLARE, or a second finger, to flare.
Point your phone’s camera at the code, or open glow-worms.ryan-d2f.workers.dev/glow/play.
You are on it: press Play above.
On your computer
WASD or arrows to move. Hold Space to flare.
On the TV
- Open glow-worms.ryan-d2f.workers.dev/glow/tv in the TV’s browser, or on a laptop plugged into it.
- Scan the code it shows with your phone’s camera.
- Play on your phone. Everyone on the couch joins the same way, up to 8 worms, and the TV shows the whole room.
Live rooms
Rooms open the moment you press Play
No one is in a room this minute. Press Play and you start at once, with bots in the empty seats; whoever presses Play next takes a bot’s place in your room.
How to play
Up to 8 players, 75 s rounds.
A dark cave, top-down. You are a glow worm. Common spores are 1 light, gold is 3 and drifts faster, and a short-lived cluster means you commit. A dark pocket drifts through: spores eaten there are worth one more. Touch one cluster mote and the motes beside it burst into you. Eating makes you a little faster and wider, and your body grows longer. Hold to flare: you shoot ahead and a bright cone of your colour lights the cave ahead, but every half second of flare burns a light that drops behind you for anyone to eat. A short eat streak is worth a little more light. Bumping the brighter worm spills chaseable light. Nobody is out. Mid-round, one big heartspore worth 6 rises far from the leader, and an arrow points everyone to it. The last 10 seconds are double. When the clock hits zero, everyone sees who glowed brightest, name and score, then the next two. Your best finish stays on your device, so every round has a number to beat. The next round starts on its own.
- Steer your worm. The head leads and the body follows.
- Hold Space (or the FLARE button on a phone) to flare. You are much faster and a bright cone of your colour lights the cave ahead, but it burns 1 light at once and 1 more every half second, dropped behind you as spores anyone can eat. You ne
- Cyan is 1. Gold is 3 and moves faster. A bright cluster dies if you do not go. Touch one mote and the ones beside it burst.
- A dark pocket drifts through the cave. Spores eaten there are worth one more.
- Bite again within about a second for a short eat streak. From ×3 each bite is worth a little more light.
- Eating makes you faster, your glow wider, and your body longer. The leader is easier to chase and to bump.
- Party
- Arcade
- free, in the browser
- bots fill empty seats
- join any time: take a bot’s place
- rounds restart on their own
- phones as controllers on a TV
Screenshots
Glow Worms, in play
Credits
Who made Glow Worms
Built with
Homie’s open engine: @homie-rocks/studio (rooms, netplay, the big screen), Apache-2.0.