Wrap Battle

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About the game

Wrap Battle is a rhythm game in the style of the arcade dance machines. Arrows rise up the left side of the screen towards four circles, and when an arrow is inside its circle you press the matching arrow key. On the right, two elf DJs at their turntables dance and wrap presents on a conveyor belt, and the show goes on as long as you keep up.

The bar at the top is your energy. Hits keep it filled and show "Perfect", "Good" or "Okay" depending on your timing, a run of them gives a "Sweet Combo", and misses show "Miss" and drain it; when the bar is empty, the round is over. The patterns start simple and get busier in each of the four levels, with the music following.

It asks for nothing but rhythm, and the sound is half the game: play it with the sound on.

Playing it here

Click Play and the game starts in the page, with a small bar above it for the score, pause, restart and sound. It works with touch: tap the arrow buttons on the screen. Nothing is installed and nothing is sent to other sites; the best score is not saved.

Controls

Input Action
Arrow keys Hit the arrow that is in its circle
Tap the arrows (touch) Same, on the screen

A few things worth knowing

Watch the circles, not the arrows. Look at where the arrows are about to land and press as they arrive.

Sound on. The beat of the music is the best guide to the timing.

Credits and licence

Wrap Battle is one of the mini-games of a holiday web app that Google published as open source (the santa-tracker-web repository). The code is under the Apache License 2.0 and the images and sounds are under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0, credited to Google LLC and the contributors of the project. The game is the same as the one Google published: for this site only the page around it was replaced (score bar, pause, sound), fonts and libraries are served from this site, and links back to the original app were removed, so the page never contacts other sites. The licence texts and the list of changes are in the licence file of the game. This is an unofficial copy and is not made, endorsed or sponsored by Google.

FAQ

The round ended as soon as I started. If you press nothing, the misses drain the bar and the round ends in a few seconds. Press Restart and play along with the arrows.

Does it have a two-player mode? No, one player against the beat.

Screenshots

Screenshot of Wrap Battle