Egg Saves

About the game

Egg Saves is a small puzzle adventure written by Khaja Yousuf Uddin for Sprig, the open-source game console made by Hack Club that you program in JavaScript. You play Egg, a little egg with a cap, and your friend Bro, a green turtle, is lost somewhere in a maze of brick walls. Your house is on the other side, and the way there is blocked by rocks and TNT.

Everything on the board has a job. Wrenches are the tools you pick up by walking over them. Every wrench you carry lets you defuse one block of TNT: walk into it with at least one wrench and the TNT disappears, and so does the wrench. Rocks can be pushed, and so can Bro, which is how you move him along toward the house. But push a rock onto a wrench and you crush the tool, and push one onto the house and you crush your own home, which sends you all the way back to the first level.

There are five levels, from a short first one that you can solve in a dozen moves to a last one where Bro sits between two blocks of TNT at the far end of a maze of rocks. A level ends when Bro reaches the house, or when you reach it yourself carrying a tool. The game then tells you which kind of ending you got, such as "Prepared!", "Together Again" or "Survivor", and after the fifth level it says "Game Complete!".

Playing it here

Click Play and the game starts in the page, on the Sprig's own screen scaled up so the pixels stay sharp. A cheerful background tune plays; press I if you want it off. The game keeps no save, so closing the page starts you at the first level again.

On a phone or tablet, two groups of buttons appear under the screen, like the eight buttons of the console. On a computer, use the keyboard; the arrow keys work like W, A, S, D.

Controls

Tips

Count your wrenches before the TNT. You need one wrench for each TNT you want to pass. If a level has more TNT than wrenches, one of them is not on your path.

Rocks do not come back. A rock pushed against a wall stays there. Look at where it will end up before the second push, and restart with J when you trap yourself.

Keep rocks away from the house and the wrenches. The house is the only thing that can cost you your whole run.

You do not always need Bro at the door. Reaching the house with a tool also finishes the level, but Together Again is the friendlier ending.

FAQ

Is this an official Sprig game? It comes from the public Sprig game gallery, where anyone can send in a game. This one was sent in by its author, Khaja Yousuf Uddin, and it runs here unchanged.

What is a Sprig? A small console with a 160×128 screen and eight buttons, made by Hack Club to teach programming by making games. Its games are plain JavaScript programs, and the engine that runs them is open source.

Does it save my progress? No. The five levels are short.