Interesting concept! But what purpose do the mushrooms serve?

Thanks. The green mushrooms cause the centipedes to go down a row and change direction. The magenta mushrooms cause the centipedes to dive straight towards the bottom of the screen.

If a centipede reaches the bottom of the screen then it steals a point of research.

OS X link is broken and the web version won't work for me either (latest stable Chrome).

man i love typing of the dead. this game was super fun. well done.

@stevejohnson I am sorry to hear that.

The game is written using Processing, which is really just a simple wrapper around Java. In theory, the game should work on anything with a reasonably up to date version of Java 1.6. Unfortunately I don't have a Mac (I took it on faith that Processing would generate a working OSX build) so I don't know for sure what is going, but my hunch is that there's a problem with the version of Java.

I <3 typing games, this one is cool!

Works on my macbook, but runs a little slowly, nearly all java applets do for some reason though.

Works great on windows in chrome.

I think the wrong theme won :P

Failed to run on Windows 7 64 bit... call me crazy, but your game seems to resemble the game centipede an awful lot...

@ranklar the resemblance to Centipede is not a coincidence. I was thinking about old games and ended up with an unholy mashup between Centipede and Typing of the Dead.

Nice game, especially how you stitched the theme in it ;)

=)

Nice implementation of the theme discovery.

Nice combination of centipede and a typing game. Gets really frantic later on.
The web version bails out but the Windows executable worked.

nice mash-up ! I'm not really interested in typing game usually but your game triggered the atari 2600 memories and I could not stop playing :)

Pretty good game. In tight spots however, I tended to hit Esc instead of Backspace. Would be good if Esc just paused or something, not abandoned the game. Also, one time it began the wrong word when there were two words starting with the same letters. Not sure that's actually wrong, but it confused me at the time. Also, the medicine words appeared in two stages?

Neat game, I like the mushroom idea. Why are there so many diseases?

Oh, and I got "humpy" as a word. Huh.