Effing Meteors

Effing Meteors is a 2010 action Flash game developed by Jacob Grahn and aeiowu.
Plans for a sequel to Effing Hail were revealed as early as December 2009."aeiowu on Twitter: Also, prepare yourself for Jiggmin Watch 2010. March 8th, 2010 in SF. We attended online last year. This year we make contact with his skin." December 15, 2009. Work began on the game the following March and it was officially announced 2 months later."Thing Teaser | Greg Wohlwend". Flickr. March 21, 2010."Effing Meteors". Jiggmin. May 25, 2010. Unlike the original, development was spread throughout the year because of Jiggmin's obligations with Platform Racing 3."aeiowu on Twitter: @PetriPurho haha, yea... That's nearly done but it's in limbo. You'll have to talk to Jiggmin (jiggmin.com) about that one. :)". August 12, 2010. It was finished in October, but wasn't released for another 2 months until it found a sponsor."aeiowu on Twitter: Just put a new collab game with Jiggmin up on FGL. Wonder what it could be called? Hint: It's slang for "fucking."". October 28, 2010.
Effing Meteors was critically acclaimed and ultimately surpassed the original in popularity."Calculating Play Counts". Jiggmin Wiki. July 10, 2020. Praise was aimed at the gameplay and its reworked mechanics, as well as the unique art style."Browser Game Pick: Effing Meteors (Jacob Grahn and Greg Wohlwend)". IndieGames.com. December 31, 2010."Review: Effing Meteors". Kill Screen. January 26, 2011."LunchTimeWasters: Effing Meteors". Kotaku. January 5, 2011."Friday's Game (XXVI)". El Píxel Ilustre. January 21, 2011."Friday Freebie". Resolution Magazine. February 4, 2011."Effing Meteors is a cataclysmic world-destroying physics Time Waster". Download Squad. January 31, 2011."Sawbuck Gamer - January 10, 2011". The A.V. Club."Link Dump Friday №197". Jayisgames. January 7, 2011."Free Bytes: Effing Meteors". IGN. January 7, 2011."Effing Meteors". Libération. January 17, 2011."Lunch break: Effing Meteors". SME Tech. June 7, 2012. Newspaper Felix featured the game in one of its January 2011 issues and in their "28 games to help you avoid revision" article a couple months later."Web Games". Felix, issue 1478. January 14, 2011, p. 28."28 games to help you avoid revision". Felix. March 22, 2011. Casual Girl Gamer named it one of their "Top 10 Gravity Games", while Armor Games included it in their "5 Deadly Dinosaur Games" list."Top 10 Gravity Games". Casual Girl Gamer. January 8, 2011."5 Deadly Dinosaur Games". Armor Games. April 9, 2015. Kongregate players voted it the 3rd best game of the week, and Newgrounds' community voted it among the best submissions of the day, week and top 10 games of the month."Kongregate.com" (January 2, 2011 archive)"Top entries from 12/30/2010!" - Newgrounds"Top entries from 01/04/2011!" - Newgrounds "Best of January 2011" - Newgrounds
==Gameplay==
Players control a gravity well using their mouse, with the objective being to cause as many extinctions as possible amongst the dinosaurs and other species by hurdling meteors at them. 
Meteors cause more destruction the larger they are and must be a certain size to avoid burning up in the atmosphere. Players combine them with nearby meteors for them to grow. Some creatures also have the ability to destroy meteors no matter their size.
===Changes===
Other changes from Effing Hail include:
*Time limit has been removed
*Meteors are given names once they become meteoroids, with Jacob/Greg being a reference to the developers and AXE to the sponsor.
==Music==
Main article: Songs
A different cut of the menu theme was later used for Futurism's menu.
Audio	Song 	Length
 	Dissolve – Bjørn Lynne 	4:56
 	Dance in the Air With the Sparkling Snake – Arseniy Shkljaev	2:46
==Achievements/Badges==
Main article: Achievements
===GamerSafe===
Most builds of Effing Meteors include GamerSafe achievements that are no longer obtainable since their shutdown. Since these builds include a check not to load if it can't connect to their service, they're also not playable at all as a result.
Badge	Name 	Requirements 	Points
 	Nine Shooter 	Get 9 combos. 	100
 	Creator of Worlds 	Create a planetoid. 	100
 	All Mine 	Prevent any dinosaur abductions. 	200
 	Hunter Gatherer 	Have 3 named meteors out at once. 	200
 	The Land Before Time	Complete the game. 	200
 	Speed Run 	Finish the game in under 4 minutes.	200
===Kongregate===
Badge	Name 	Requirements 	Points
 	Jurassic Juggle 	Have 2 named meteors out at once.	5
 	Effing Extinction	Beat the game. 	15
==Cancelled Sequel==
In 2015 aeiowu revealed the two had worked on a 3rd Effing game for 8 months at one point. It was ultimately scrapped after they couldn't come up with a satisfying concept.https://twitter.com/AdhesiveMadMan/status/658789706075918336
==Trivia==
*This is Jiggmin's most played game on Armor Games with over 1.1 million views."Effing Meteors" - Armor Games Like his other releases on the site, there are several differences between it and other versions, including:
**AXE ad replaced with one for Armor Games.
**Removal of achievements.
**Replacing the GamerSafe leaderboards with their own.
**Added logo and links to Armor Games' social media pages on the title screen. To account for these, the credits area is slightly smaller.
*The cheering audio when you beat the game was first used in Platform Racing 3 as the level up sound.
==Gallery==
Effing Meteors - Felix.png|Effing Meteors featured in Felix.
Effing Meteors Beta.jpg|Early screenshot showing the time limit from Effing Hail was originally included.
4449360695_a18a7a4942_o.png|Dev screenshot; March 21, 2010
4457881975_a363015a48_o.png|Dev screenshot; March 23, 2010
==Links==
*Play Effing Meteors
*Full Screen Link
==References==
Category:Games
Category:Single-Player Games
Category:Collaborations
Category:2010 Games