Games I grew up with, reimagined as Greek myths. Plus a few original puzzles.
Olympus arcade
Original puzzles
Tap or swipe in a direction to move along the thread. Swipe into open canvas to cut.
Choose your moment. Arachne moves on the border and golden threads around the unfinished canvas, not across the revealed picture. Tap on the side you want her to move toward for a short nudge; the tap is a direction, not a destination. Swipe to steer or begin a cut into open canvas. A cut keeps going until it reconnects. Arrow keys and WASD also work.
Claim 80%. Reconnect to fill the smaller section. Moths trapped inside are caught in silk and removed. Three moths move at different speeds.
Keep moving. Moths can cut any exposed thread. The red beetle patrols the outer edge, so waiting there is risky too. You have six seconds to close a cut, and three lives.
Keyboard: P or Esc pauses. Space or Enter starts, resumes, or retries. Switching tabs pauses the game.
Arachne×Bully’s Art class
I loved playing Rockstar’s Bully, and I specifically remember how much fun Art class was. That little game within a game stayed with me. This is my way of revisiting it, with a thread in place of the pencil.
Arachne was a gifted weaver who challenged Athena to a contest. In Ovid’s telling, her tapestry exposed the gods’ misdeeds. Athena destroyed it in anger; the story ends with Arachne transformed into a spider, still weaving.
Bully’s Art class builds on Qix: leave the safe edge, draw a line, and close off sections of a canvas before an enemy hits your unfinished work.
Drawing becomes weaving. Every trip across the loom leaves a vulnerable thread until you finish the shape. Claiming the canvas piece by piece gives Arachne’s craft a playable rhythm; the moths are this arcade’s invention.
Bully’s art class, with Arachne at the loom.
Arrow keys or WASD to move. Head into open canvas to cut a thread.