Thursday, April 14, 2011

Kongregate Badge of the Day: Colors of the Wind

The Kongregate Badge of the Day for Thursday, April 14, 2011 is the Colors of the Wind Badge.  This is a Medium rated badge for the game Solipskier.  To get the badge you have to Lose your headphones by reaching a speed of 70 km/h (i.e. ski up to 70km/h or more). For getting this Badge of the Day you get 17 Gamestop PowerUp Reward Points.

The basic concept of Solipskier is pretty simple as you just make snow for the skier to keep skiing.  You try to get him in the air for tricks and stay on track to go through tunnels for bonus points and speed.  Also, you get little speed boosts when you go through green gates.  Red gates are to be avoided.  The hardest part, though is timing jumps right to jump over gaps.

It took me about half an hour of playing and I thought I would not get today's badge, but I actually did.  I found the best way to build up speed is when you go through the tunnels.  It is sort of random, but several times I had two tunnels quite close to each other.  If you can hit all or at least most of the gates (i.e. do not accidentally jump when going through), you can easily build up a lot of speed.  Hitting the green gates continuously also helps boost the speed, but often you lose the boost before the next one.

As always if you already have the badge, just go to the game and you will be awarded the extra points.

Comment if you have any if you have any other tips to help others get today's badge to help out those having trouble.  Also, feel free to ask questions if you need help and I will try to help you out.

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