Squares

Squares is a simple fun/addictive game where the player start as a tiny square whose mission is to eat other squares with a smaller size. The catch is that your square grows after consuming each square. becomes more more difficult.

How to play

Squares and circles spawn from the edges and drift toward you as the difficulty ramps up.

• You are the rotating black square in the center.
• Move your square with the mouse.
• Eat smaller squares to grow and increase your score.
• Hitting a larger square ends the game.

Circles

• Green circle: grants invincibility for a short time.
• Black circle: instant death on contact.

Controls

• Mouse: move
• Left click: dash (short burst; has a cooldown)
• P or Esc: pause / resume
• R: restart (when game over)
• Q: quit

Run / Build

Requires Go and a working graphics environment supported by Ebiten.

Run directly:

go run ./cmd/squares

Build a binary into bin/:

make build
./bin/squares

macOS App Bundle

You can build a proper macOS .app bundle (so it shows up like a normal app in Finder / Launchpad):

make macos-app
open dist/Squares.app

You can override the bundle id and version:

make macos-app BUNDLE_ID=com.yourname.squares VERSION=1.0.0

App icon

To include a Dock/Finder icon, add a 1024×1024 PNG at:

assets/icon.png

If you just want a reasonable placeholder icon quickly, generate one:

make icon

Then re-run make macos-app. The build script will generate an .icns and place it inside the app bundle.

If assets/icon.png is missing, the app will still build but will use the default generic icon.

Notes on distribution

For distributing to other machines without Gatekeeper warnings, you typically need to code-sign and notarize the .app using an Apple Developer ID certificate. This repo currently only creates the unsigned .app bundle.

Screenshots

TODO