Curve Fever

## Introduction To Curve Fever

* Curve Fever has been a popular multiplayer online game for many players since 1995 to 2021. It is a snake game where you can play against 1 to 8 other players in an online arena. Since the unfortunate end of Flash Player, Curve Fever 2 has ended. However! A well known player from the community Haru, has created a remade version of Curve Fever called Curve Remastered at first, to be later called Curve Wars which is the future for this game!

## Versions / Remakes Of Curve Fever

* There have been many versions of Curve Fever since it's initial release in 1995.

### Achtung, die Kurve (1995-2012)

* The first version of Curve Fever was called "Achtung, die Kurve". This is German for "Pay attention to the curve".
* which was originally played on the website achtungkurve.com, and later achtungdiekurve.net/play2.php. The original webiste was an open source, and was developed in HTML5 and JavaScript .
* achtungkurve.net, an open Source remake by German duo Krito and the Stoker released in 2018.[*citation needed*] Additional remakes include *Curve Fever*, published 2011 by the Dutch authors Geert van den Burg and Robin Brouns, which ceased operations and was continued by *Curve Fever Pro*. Later remakes include *Curve Wars*  and *Curve Crash*.

### Curve Fever 2 (2011 - 2021)

* Curve Fever has changed a huge amount since Achtung, die Kurve. It was published in 2011 by the Dutch authors Geert van den Burg and Robin Brouns, which ceased operations due to the announcement that Flash would end in late 2020.
* By the beginning of 2012, Curve Fever 2 was becoming increasingly popular, with many players being online at one time. This lead to tournaments coming back into gear, and some of them being posted on the popular social media website, YouTube.
* Unfortunately, it was announced that Flash Player was ending, which meant that Curve Fever 2 could not be supported online.

### Curve Fever Pro (2018 - )

* In 2018, the developers of Curve Fever, and the maker Geert, started to develop a new Curve Fever called Curve Fever Pro. This included different powerups to Curve Fever 2. On the 26th February 2018, Curve Fever Pro was officially released online.
* Many people switched over to Curve Fever Pro from Curve Fever 2. These two modes were battling it out to be the top Curve Fever Game. The Curve Fever Pro turned your snake into like a "Snake Ship", where you could attack other ships with new powerups!
* The Curve Fever Pro development team, are actively working on improving Curve Fever Pro. Things to expect includes:
* Weekly patches and updates.
* Periodic balance updates and new features suggested by the community.
* Monthly Official Tournaments
* An active dev team that is always open to feedback!
* Shout outs in-game to community content made about our game. All this can change based on your feedback! We always value what our players are telling us. Our community has helped steer the direction of development multiple times to make Curve Fever the best it can be. As such, with future updates, we will continue to improve and adjust Curve Fever based on community feedback.

### Curve Wars (2021 - )

* It was originally called "Achtung, die Kurve!".
* This was later changed to the more commonly known name of "Curve Fever" in around 2013.
* Achtung, die Kurve on the Curve Fever website was later known as "Curve Fever 1", which was an offline mode to practice against AI's or play with your friends.
* Curve Fever 2 was the popular online mode from 2012 - 2020

## How To Play

* Achtung die Kurve, Curve Fever 2, and Curve Wars are very similar in how to play, however Curve Fever 2, and Curve Wars include many more powerups.
* Curve
* The aim of the game is to try to survive the longest by avoiding other players lines, and your own line which you have created.

* There are powers to steal points from your opponents. Enter the arena, meet your opponents and let the battle begin.
* Each player spawns as a dot at a random spot on the playing field, move at a constant speed. Each player has the ability to turn left or right, although the turning speed is limited such that sharp turns are not possible. As the dot travels across the playing field, it draws a permanent, solid line in its wake, in the colour of that player.
* When the dot collides with any section of line or the boundary of the playing field, the player instantly loses, although the line remains in the playing field until the end of the game. The game becomes increasingly difficult as more of the playing field is blocked off by lines.
* Other players may try to draw barriers to block the path of other players, forcing them into a collision. However, as the lines are being drawn, gaps are occasionally being generated that can be used to escape a section of the map that has been blocked off. The game is won when all but one of the players has collided. In its original version, there are a total of 6 different lines. Up to six people can play at the same time. All the lines are exactly the same, the colour being the only thing setting the different lines apart. All the keys on the keyboard must be used to play this game as it takes a lot of skill and talent. Pathfinding - puzzle your way out of a maze of curves left by yourself and other opponents. Squeeze through tiny gaps, cut off others who try to attack you and curve your way to victory. Interactions - Discover all the fun and diverse ways to interact with other players and survive the resulting mayhem. Get to know other players by chatting with them during matchmaking or in-game downtimes and turn your opponents into friends by adding them to your friends' list.

### How To Play - Curve Fever Pro

The goal of the game is to be the first to reach a set amount of points.

To do that you have to:

* Survive the longest by not hitting the curves left behind by ships or the borders of the arena;
* Attack others for points using your chosen powers. The more points the person you attack has, the more you can steal from them. Don’t forget to also protect yourself from attacks and traps that will steal your hard-earned points!

Equip your ship with 2 powers (one for the “up”/”W” and one for the “down”/”S” buttons). Steer your ship with the “left” and “right” arrows or the “A” and “D” keys.

Once you are ready, click “Play” and you will be matchmade with other players close to your skill level and the battle will begin.

Select “Quick Play” to play ranked FFA matches where you face 5 other players close to your rank. You can also select “Join Match” where you can join an available room or create a private room and invite your friends to play. In Custom Rooms, as a host, you can choose from 3 available game modes:

Custom games (ranked / unranked):

* Pickups Free for All - Invite your friends for fun matches where power-ups spawn on the field. They can be picked up by you or other players and depending on the colour of the pickup it affects only you or only your opponents. Have fun making everyone speed up into walls. Just make sure you remember green pickups affect your ship and orange pickups affect your enemies. Fevers - a type of power that is similar to a pickup - will be disabled for this game mode.
* Survival Free for All - The only point income in this game mode is survival. As such all offensive powers will be disabled once the host chooses this particular game mode.
* Classic Free for All - same game mode as in Quick Play but you get to choose your opponents. This means there are points for survival as well as stealing points from other opponents using your powers. All unlocked powers are available.

## Earlier History of Curve Fever (2004 - 2012)

This is taken from Wikipedia about earlier history of Curve Fever, at the time Achtung:

Six major Achtung tournaments have been held between 2004 and 2012. The first one, held in the summer of 2004 in Utrecht, Netherlands, was won by the Turkish Nationals. This tournament became a major success and paved the way for an even bigger tournament 3 years later. In October 2007, a second tournament was held in Jakarta, Indonesia- in part of the nation's gaming tournaments. In front of a crowd of around 400, Indonesia's Mighty Badgers defeated Sam's Club from Singapore in the final. The majority of the contenders were part of IASAS schools. In December 2006, third tournament took place at Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing in Zagreb, Croatia. It was significant because professors also joined the tournament. In 2012 the first Worldwide Tournament for Achtung, die Kurve! has been held  where paying players of the game could attend in an online tournament. Maikkon won this first online tournament. In Sweden there have been Achtung Die Kurve tournaments for a couple of years at a LAN party called Birdie. There are around 1000 people at Birdie each year and 2012 the winner won a graphic card by AMD. In January 2012 there was an worldcup tournament in Denmark with players from 13 countries where 2 of the 98 players were girls. In the final there were 5 different countries playing for the WC win: Dennis Zorko (Slovakia), Robert Feltcak (Poland), Pontus Larsson (Denmark), Anton Westman (Norway), Hampus Karlsson (Sweden) and Jimmie Klum (Sweden). The final was played in 6 games. All the players did play with every control for a fair result. In the end Jimmie Klum was a clear winner, Anton took the second and Hampus the third place. The prize was 1000 Euro and was collected from the money you had to pay to be in the tournament. The winner of the 2018 world cup was Johannes "Skillhannes" Girsch, also known as "the Austrian sniper".

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