Catch the Leaves

Play the Game

Objective

Now keeps track of the best 5 scores of the week and the best 10 ever.

Hold down the control key to move the goat faster.

Level 4 starts at 3000 points and you get back one leaf you've missed.

Instructions

To start the game, click on Play the Game, wait for the game to load, and press "s" when the loading images message disappears. (Make sure the mouse is somewhere on the game screen).

Move the goat so its mouth touches a falling leaf and it will catch it. If you miss three leaves, the game is over.

Press the right arrow key to move the goat right, and the left arrow key to move the goat left. If your keyboard "repeats" you can hold the key down to make the goat run. Otherwise, you'll have to press the key repeatedly. If you hold down the control key when pressing the arrow key, the goat moves 10% faster in level 1, 20% faster in level 2, 30% faster in level 3 and 40% faster in level 4.

If you don't have arrows keys on your keyboard, you can use the 4 key to move left and the 6 to move right. (The arrows keys are often on 4 and 6 on a numeric keypad).

After 150 points, you'll progress to level 2. After 330 points, you'll progress to level 3. The leaves fall a little faster, more leaves fall at the same time, and there are more small leaves in these levels. If the lower levels are too slow for you, when the game is playing you can press 2 or 3 to immediately advance to that level. Sorry, you can't go back to slower levels.

To pause the game, move the mouse off the game. To resume, move the mouse back over the game.

Scoring

Known Problems

• Requires a Java enabled Web browser. See Java Enhanced Goats for more info on downloading one.
• If your computer is slow, sometimes the goat's head disappears when she is running foward fast, or the tail disappears when she is running backward fast. The Just In Time (JIT) Java compiler (in Netscape 3.0b5 and later, or Microsoft Internet Explorer Beta 2 or later) reduces this problem.
• If nothing happens when "s" is typed to start the game, click on the game with mouse and try again.
• If the arrow keys don't move the goat, try clicking on the game first. If that doesn't work, try using 4 and 6 to move it.

These pages were designed by the Computer Science project of the Irvine Mesa Charros 4-H Club