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Calamari
Keyboard
Flash
Calamari is a shooter Flash game released on September 3, 2012 by Nitrome. The game is Nitrome's second multiplayer game that could be played through Facebook.
Players take control of squids while attempting to collect as many coins as possible on an obstacle-filled room.
Descriptions[edit | edit source]
Nitrome.com 2.0
Get the top Facebook score in this two player survival squid game!
Controls[edit | edit source]
The controls can be customized. The default controls are as follows:
Player 1
Red squid
Up key - Jump
Left and right arrow keys - Move
Spacebar - Shoot
Player 2
Green squid
W key - Jump
A and D keys - Move
Q key - Shoot
Gameplay[edit | edit source]
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 object, 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.
Once the player has gotten a score higher than 1600, the background may begin to flash red, followed by bullet-shooting boxes that spawn fast. If the player survives, a lot of coins and a egg-shaped block will spawn.
The player only gets one life. However, a certain block can be destroyed to give the player a second chance. This block has a blue colour in the middle.
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Components[edit | edit source]
Main article: Blocks (Calamari)
Credits[edit | edit source]
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Announcements[edit | edit source]
| Date | Title | Author | Category | Description | Media | |
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| 31 Aug 2012 | Friday Update! | Jon Annal | News! | Nitrome mentions that they ran into some issues with the release of one of their games related to Internet Explorer browsers. They also say that the following week, they will release another Pixel Love post, a Memory Lane post and more information about Icebreaker: A Viking Voyage. | ||
| 03 Sep 2012 | Play Calamari! | Jon Annal | New! | Calamari is released. |  | |
| 06 Sep 2012 | Calamari Loading Fixed! | Tom McQuillan | Updates | Nitrome fixes an issue where Calamari and Super Snotput were not loading on Facebook. |  |
Music[edit | edit source]
The music for Calamari was composed by Dave Cowen. Two tracks were composed for the game. Dave Cowen considers the music for this game one of his least liked works[1]. The music was gradually made available to stream in Soundcloud.
| Official Soundcloud link | Release date | File | Heard in |
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| intro | March 7th, 2024 | Menus | |
| level music | May 6th, 2023 | Gameplay |
Cameos and references[edit | edit source]
Nitrome cameos[edit | edit source]
- Nitrome Must Die - The music heard during gameplay in Calamari features a section from the music heard on menus and boss fights in Nitrome Must Die.
Cameos in other Nitrome games[edit | edit source]
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Calamari is not featured in other Nitrome games.
Cameos outside Nitrome games[edit | edit source]
- Icebreaker - The squids make an appearance in the skin.
- Bad Iceberg - The red squid makes an appearance in the skin.
Cultural references[edit | edit source]
- The game over message "You're no longer having a Kracken time" makes a reference to the Kraken, a legendary creature from Greek mythology.
Gallery[edit | edit source]
Logos[edit | edit source]
Logo as seen on the menu
Animated logo as seen on the menu
Logo as seen on the Nitrome 2.0 icon
Logo as seen on the New Games icon
Icons[edit | edit source]
Nitrome 2.0 icon
New Games icon
Search engine thumbnail
Promotional material[edit | edit source]
Cover image for Nitrome's Facebook page
Screenshots[edit | edit source]
Slider animation
Trivia[edit | edit source]
- When the player dies on single player mode, a random game over message is displayed, which are puns to calamari/squids and eggs. The messages are:
- You're no longer having a Kracken time
- "You're a dead ringer"
- "You were battered"
- "You were egg-xecuted"
- When the player dies on multiplayer mode, the message "Insert Squid Based Pun" is displayed.
- Calamari is the only Nitrome game to have a Facebook-exclusive high scores board.
Notes[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Dave Cowen on Soundcloud: Stream Calamari (Nitrome) level music by Dave Cowen, 6 May 2023, retrieved 18 February 2025.
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