Calamari

Calamari is a shooter mini game released on September 3, 2012. This game was mentioned prior to the week it was meant to be released, and although slated for release a week after the post, , technical problems with the game in the Internet Explorer browser pushed back this release by three days.

This is Nitrome's second released Facebook multiplayer game, and is also the first of their Facebook applications to include an offline multiplayer function that allows to players to compete on the same computer at once.

Controls
''Controls for both characters can be changed. Listed below are the primary controls.'' Played 1 (Red squid) ↑ - Jump → - Move left ← - Move right Spacebar - Shoot

Player 2 (Green squid) W - Jump A - move left D - move right Q - shoot

Gameplay
Calamari has no levels, but sets the player in a room with the objective of collecting coins in order to get a high score. The room the player is in undergoes waves. When a wave is about to commence, a few blocks will change and a coloured line will go through the level until it meets another wall block. Multiple pairs of coloured line connected blocks may appear. After all coloured lines have been connected, blocks will begin to exit the blocks that the a blue line first exited, and exit the room through a block that certain coloured. Blocks that come out can be destroyed by shooting the eggs the player has, but the player can only shoot eggs that they have picked up.

Once an egg hits an objct, it will fall down to the floor if it is not barred from doing this by any special block it lands on. All waves appear to be predetermined, the order in which waves are encountered being random. The player will be killed if hit by hazardous blocks or crushed by any block, the definition of crushing in this sense being that the player is confined in a spot that becomes too small for the length/width of their sprite.

The player can only spawn twice, and upon being killed twice, the player receives a "game over" and can submit their score.

Trivia

 * The game's gameplay seems to be a mix of the 1981 arcade game Centipede and the Neutronized game Egg Blast.