The objective of the game is to collect as many energy stars as possible with your adder, without crashing into the walls, obstacles or the adder's tail. To control the adder use the left and right arrow key. Apart from collecting energy stars you can also collect power ups. These power ups can be either good or bad, you can either take the power up yourself or send it to another player. Press the down arrow key to send the power up to yourself or press the up button to send it to the leader. If you press the escape key the power up will be removed. It is also possible to use the F1 - F4 buttons to send the power up to a specific player.

At any time chat messages may be written by typing on the keyboard, the chat messages are sent to the other players by pressing the return key.

Every Another game is 5, 10 or 20 minutes (only the private games). The player with the highest score at the end of the game is the winner. If you are a registered member the highest score you have received will be stored after a game is over (only 5 and 10 minutes games). Depending on several factors you will also receive (or lose) ranking points after a game. Beware, if you log out of a game already running you will lose the same amount of ranking points as losing the game. However if you enter a game that is nearly finished and don't wish to lose ranking you have a short time to get out of the room without losing ranking.

Scoring

The scoring in Another is simple, for each energy star taken you will be awarded 100 points. Every time you crash you lose 1/10 of your total score.

Game Settings

There is a tab called settings in the lobby that allows you to turn the in-game music on/off as well as the sound effects.