![[Launch the Game]](llama_scrnshot1.png)
Play Llama Spit
You need the Macromedia Flash Player plugin to play Llama spit.

[Please read the disclaimer]
You thought guinea pigs (known as cuy in South America) were cute little fuzzy creatures that snuffle around making delightful squealing noises? Oh no, the guinea pig is a savage and dangerous beast that gets under the feet of defenseless llama tripping them up and breaking their necks. And the little blighters breed so fast too!
Now the llama are fighting back! Stop the encroachment of guinea pigs by spitting at them (llama are good at spitting); but be careful - if a guinea pig trips you up you lose a life, and if you run of spit you lose a life. Don't worry though, there are frequent water buckets to refresh your spit level and if you are lucky an extra life or two may drop in!
Purpose of the Game
Get the guinea pigs before they get you! How many can you score? The ten highest scores go on the "High Scores" display.
How to Play
![[Large, medium and small guinea pigs, a water bucket and a green llama disc]](llama_items.png)
Spit at the guinea pigs for points. Catch the water bucket for extra spits. Catch the green llama discs for an extra life and bonus points.
![[Screen shot of the game area]](llama_scrnshot2.png)
Use the left/right arrow keys to move the llama and press spacebar to fire!
- Spit at the guinea pigs to score points. Smaller guinea pigs score more points!
- Large Guinea Pig: +5 points.
- Medium Guinea Pig: +10 points.
- Small Guinea Pig: +20 points (watch out for these little pipsqueaks, they can easily slip through your defences).
- Your 'Spit Level' decreases as you spit, so don't spit indiscriminately!
- Catch the water bucket (let it 'hit' you) to increase your 'Spit Level' by +5 spits.
- Catch the green llama disc (let it 'hit' you) to gain +1 extra life plus +50 bonus points.
- You start with 3 lives, but you lose a life when:
- You run out of spit.
- A guinea pig hits you.
- There are 3 difficulty levels ("Easy", "Medium" and "Hard"); after each 1000 points your score, the level increases (until you reach "Hard", where it remains until you lose all your lives)!
FAQ
- What do you have against guinea pigs?
- Don't get me wrong, I'm not cuyaphobic. Some of my best friends are guinea pigs.
- This is cruelty to animals, you should be ashamed! You are encouraging children to hurt defenseless creatures, you're evil!
- Apart from referring you to the disclaimer, I would also like to add that nobody has complained about bashing humans on the head with giant mallets in the "Whack-a-Caesar" game. Also, every time you make your child eat her greens you are encouraging her to commit an act of violence on a poor defenseless vegetable. Vegetables have feelings too, you know - think about that next time you comment on how fresh and crunchy your carrots are!
- Spitting is a vile and disgusting habit!
- True, but try telling a llama that.
- It would be really cool if…
- I'm sure it would, but no.
- How does the game work?
- Very well, thank you.
- Do I have to download the Flash plugin?
- Sorry, yes you do. I can't program in Java.
- Can I download the game to play offline?
- I can't stop you downloading the SWF file, but the game won't work if you do. I may make a downloadable version available in the future.
- I keep getting ActiveX warning messages when I try and launch the game.
- You're using Internet Explorer, and this is a standard message for downloading "objects" when you are surfing on a high security setting (good on you!). You can prevent this by adding this domain to your "trusted" sites (this is preferable to temporarily lowering your shields, because if you're like me, you'll forget to raise them again).
Version History
- 03/09/2005 - version 1.2, made game slightly harder by increasing the time between repetitive spits when holding down the spacebar (continuous fire). Also added a fade-out effect so you can see where you splattered a guinea pig.
- 31/08/2005 - version 1.1, now includes a 'High Scores' Top 10!
- 30/08/2005 - version 1.0 released!
- 29/08/2005 - version 0.8 (beta), made three different sized guinea pigs, each worth different points and moving at different speeds.
- 27/08/2005 - version 0.7 (beta), added sound effects
- 26/08/2005 - version 0.6 (beta), added extra life/bonus points item
- 26/08/2005 - version 0.5 (beta), completely automated game level increments.
- 26/08/2005 - version 0.4 (beta), allowed llama to move off the edge of screen and appear on the other side.
- 25/08/2005 - version 0.3 (beta), restricted number of continuous spits to 20 (speeds up the game engine processing by re-using spits).
- 25/08/2005 - version 0.2 (beta), fixed "move and spit" ability.
- 24/08/2005 - version 0.1 (beta) version released!