In Avoid you must try to stay alive as long as possible. At first this is easy, simply "avoid" the black dots. But soon, as the game-space gets more cluttered, this becomes more difficult. Fortunately, there are the colored dots to help you. Each of these dots change the game in some way, and the key to longevity is carefully timing their consumption.
Move your ship with the mouse. Enlarge your ship with the left mouse button. Releasing the mouse will return your ship back to its smaller size.
Yellow dots turn all the black dots yellow until they reach a wall. Black dots that have become yellow are no longer deadly, so eat 'em while you can.
Red dots slow all dots (excluding your ship) for a limited time.
Purple dots will make everything come towards the location where you ate the dot.
Blue dots are time bombs. They will slowly grow until they "pop" destroying everything within the blast radius (including you so be careful). You can accelerate speed of the time bomb after it has been activated by pressing the right mouse button or the letter "a" on the keyboard.
The scoring is simple. you get a point for every dot that emerges, and a point for every dot destroyed. There are no bonuses and no multipliers.
Your high score will be saved, even if you quit the game. To reset the high score to 0 press h when you die.
If you can score over 300 you're doing pretty good, over 500 is creeping in to the excellent range.
