Tribe Under Threat

How to play

In the bottom information bar you have a meter, which you have to fill to stop new snakes from coming. After you have filled the bar and finished off the last snake, you have passed a level.

You can swap the current ball in the statue's mouth by clicking the right mouse button. If you collect a boon which can be launched from the mouth of the statue you can do this by clicking the left mouse button.

Boons

A Boon might appear when you destroy balls. The more balls you destroy at a time, or the longer combo you create, the bigger is the chance for a Boon to appear. So make those balls count!

	Back: When this boon is collected, the snake will move backwards a bit giving you more time.
	Hawk's eye: This boon gives you a targeting line which changes color according to the next ball.
	Fireball: With this amazing boon you can hurl a ball of fire which destroys some of the balls. The fire ball is released with the left mouse button.
	Digest: Snap this and the statue magically digests all the balls you have collected inside it!
	Color extinct: Catch this and remove all the balls of a random color from the snake.
	Pause: Pick it and pause the snake for a while.
	Slow: When picked up slows the snake down for a while.
	Meteorites: By picking this up you call down a rain of meteors which eradicate parts of the evil snake.
	Rainbow Ball: This is the universal match-any-color rainbow ball: It represents all the colors at the same time.
	Lightning Bolt: The Zap-O-Matic lightning bolt will definitely zap that evil snake closer to destruction.
	Slay Snake: Many players think this as their favourite: instant snake slaying! Could be your shortcut to pass a yet another level!
	Reward: This is a special boon which gives more score. The rewards drop in a chain and they drop faster and faster until you miss to catch one of them.

About Scoring

You can get a Combo multiplier by making a chain reaction. Each subsequent chain reaction will increase the multiplier by one.

You can raise the Chain modifier by destroying balls with subsequent balls dropped. If you don't break balls with a ball dropped, the Chain modifier is reset to 0.

Each ball destroyed is worth 10 points. Those points are multiplied by the Combo multiplier, and 10 points is awarded for each Chain modifier degree above one.

Coins. Collecting a Coin gives you 500 points and makes the snake meter fill up by 10%. You can collect a coin by dropping a ball on it. Note that coins don't appear in each level.

You will be awarded an Extra Life at every 50 000 points.

Highscores

Tips

• Try to memorize the order in which you caught the balls, and then drop them to correct places.
• Try to plan and create chain reactions to get more points.
• If you've got two or more same colored balls waiting in the statue's mouth, try dropping them all at the same spot. This will help you keep the statue shorter, and as you break more balls at a time, you'll be more likely to get a Boon.
• Pay attention to the glyphs in various game screens. It may pay off in the end.

System Requirements

Minimum system requirements for playing Karu

• OS: Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows 2000 or Windows XP
• Processor: Pentium 500MHz
• RAM: 64 MB
• DirectX 5.0 or higher