While the Night
Changed Eight Times
(A diary I kept while juggling one ball for nearly twenty minutes, writing something down each time the night sky changed. The feelings and the clock times are made up for the diary; the number of scenes and the rotation rule come from the game’s source. The screen never shows a scene name, so I described each one by how it looks.)
How many night backgrounds does TapMaster have? Eight, and not a single daytime one. If you only watch one round at a time it is easy to miss, but the sky changes every 150 seconds on the clock, so if you keep playing you will meet all eight scenes. Here are those twenty minutes, written as a diary.
- There are 8 night backgrounds in total, and the whole game takes place at night. There are no daytime scenes.
- The scene changes every 150 seconds of clock time, whatever your level. The clock keeps running even while the game is paused.
- When it changes, the screen darkens for 0.45 seconds and then brightens over 0.70 seconds.
- After all eight scenes have been shown once, the order is shuffled again, and the same scene never appears twice in a row.
- So the order below is just one example from my game; yours will be different.
First night · Moon and forest
A huge moon hangs in the upper right corner, with a faint greenish glow spreading across the sky beneath it. The bottom is the dark silhouette of pointed trees, with a few tiny green lights among them. It is level 31. A quiet night, with only the moon looking big while the ball climbs to the middle of the sky.
Moon and forest — the screen shows no scene name, so I call it by what you see.
Second night · Space with a planet
The ground is gone. A big ringed planet floats in a purple nebula with stars scattered around. With nowhere to stand, the ball feels like it is floating even higher. I never expected that knocking a ball upward in a sky that never touches the ground could look this different.
Space with a planet — the screen shows no scene name, so I call it by what you see.
Third night · Lunar surface with Earth
This time a blue Earth hangs overhead. Below is gray moon ground, and the sky has a faint reddish tint. A shooting streak crosses the dark. Thinking that I was hitting a ball under the Earth as seen from the moon made my hands oddly careful.
Lunar surface with Earth — the screen shows no scene name, so I call it by what you see.
Fourth night · Aurora over a snowfield
A thin green aurora flows across the top of the sky, with the moon peeking in at the corner. Ridges of blue snowy hills run along the bottom. This is the coldest scene. The background is so calm that only the speed of the falling ball stands out clearly.
Aurora over a snowfield — the screen shows no scene name, so I call it by what you see.
- Every time you hit the ball the sky twinkles softly, and the harder the hit, the slightly brighter it gets.
- Every 5 strong hits in a row, a meteor streaks across the sky. If the ball drops, the strong-hit count goes back to 0.
Fifth night · Valley in moonlight
The forest and the moon are back, but it is one layer darker and quieter than the first night. The light spreads like mist and softens the outline of the trees. I thought “wasn’t this the night from before?” and then remembered that the same scene never comes up twice in a row.
Valley in moonlight — the screen shows no scene name, so I call it by what you see.
Sixth night · Dusk with a red sun
The mood changed completely. The sky is stained red, and a huge red sun hangs half-hidden behind the forest. The warm red glow makes it feel warm even at night. Of the eight scenes, this one has the hottest colors.
Dusk with a red sun — the screen shows no scene name, so I call it by what you see.
Seventh night · Garden of rising light
Tiny specks of light drift up above the grass, in a garden that seems to glow on its own. The moon sits big at the top. This is the most fantastical scene to me.
Garden of rising light — the screen shows no scene name, so I call it by what you see.
Eighth night · Sky lanterns
The last night is a lantern night: the moon is big in the upper left, the forest is dark, and tiny orange lights dot the air. After going around all eight scenes, I found myself missing the moon and forest from the start. By then the clock was pointing at nearly twenty minutes.
Sky lanterns — the screen shows no scene name, so I call it by what you see.
After all eight nights
Same ball, same rules, but every time the background changed, each round felt different. I started with the moon and forest, then passed through space, the lunar surface, the aurora, the moonlit valley, dusk, the glowing garden and the lantern night, and the order is reshuffled every round. Now whenever the sky darkens and brightens, I look up once and think, “a new night has arrived.”
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