How to play Kite Fight: Cox's Bazar Beach Kite Game

How to play Kite Fight: Cox's Bazar Beach Kite Game

1. Choose a beach (Laboni Point, Dolphin Point or Inani Beach) and the shape of your kite: a classic diamond, a bird, a butterfly, a fish or a star. Pick Parisha or Momo: you fly that child's kite, and the other child is your friend, who flies by themselves. Choose a round and press Start flying.
2. Drag your finger or move the mouse to steer your kite across the sky. On a keyboard, use the arrow keys or WASD.
3. When your string crosses another kite's string, sparks fly and a ring shows how close you are to cutting it. Strings also wear through slowly by themselves. You cut much faster if you hold the mouse button down (or keep your finger down, or hold Space or the CUT button) while you steer, so one hand is enough.
4. A cut kite floats away over the sea and you score 10 points. Golden kites are worth 30, and cutting kites one after another builds a combo.
5. Watch out: sharp rival kites can cut your string too. If a red ring fills up, steer away or cut them first. You have three kites, and a new one is launched after one flies away.
6. Cut enough kites before the sun goes down to earn up to three stars. The sun sinks a little lower every second, and the sky turns from afternoon blue to a pink and purple sunset. Each round has more kites, and they get faster and tougher to cut.

Controls

Mouse: move to fly, and hold the left button while you steer to cut faster. Touch: drag your finger to fly and cut. Keyboard: arrow keys or WASD to fly, Space to cut, P to pause. The CUT button is there for a second finger or thumb.

Tips for cutting more kites

• Bring your string across a rival's string low in the sky, close to the children on the beach, where the rival cannot slip away easily.
• Hold the mouse button (or keep your finger down) the moment the sparks appear, and keep steering so the strings stay crossed. Letting go slows the cutting a lot.
• Golden kites are worth three times as much but are tougher to cut, so go for them when you are not in danger.
• A red ring means a rival is cutting your string. Steer away from its string, or finish cutting it first.
• Cut kites one after another to keep your combo going and score extra points.
• Dolphin Point has golden kites more often, and Inani is the breeziest beach: its kites fly a little faster. Laboni Point is the best place to start.

About the game

Kite Fight is set on the sea beaches of Cox's Bazar in Bangladesh, home of one of the longest natural sea beaches in the world. You can fly at Laboni Point, the busiest beach with umbrellas and fishing boats, at Dolphin Point with its lighthouse, sailing boats and leaping dolphins, or at Inani Beach with clear water, small coral stones and thatched huts. On every beach small and medium waves roll in one after another, families sit in beach chairs watching the kites, and others swim, jump in the waves, float on the water or zoom past on water bikes (jet skis). The beaches are painted for the game rather than copied from photographs, so they are only a taste of the real places. Flying kites is a favourite pastime on windy afternoons, and in many places children play a friendly game in which each tries to cut the other's kite string so that the kite floats away.

Parisha and her big brother Momo, who is two years older, are the two children flying kites in the game. The beaches, the kites, the trees and the sunset are painted in your browser, and all the sounds are synthesised. Besides the classic diamond, there are kites shaped like birds, butterflies, fish and stars. Real kite fighting uses sharp, glass-coated string that can hurt people, birds and power lines, so this game is just for fun: please never try it with real sharp string.

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