Trip'd is a falling block puzzle game where triads of colored, tile-shaped eggs gradually descend the screen to stack up on the bottom. Should the stack of eggs reach the line at the top of the play field, the game ends. To avoid this, triads can be moved, rotated, and reoriented by the player as they fall. When four or more eggs of the same color are connected in a line, they are eliminated from the screen, causing any eggs stacked on top to shift down. However, aligning four similar eggs in a two-by-two square will spawn a creature called a Deow'Nz within that space instead. The player can also align a quartet of Deow'Nz of any color in a four-by-four square pattern to make one giant creature appear.
Connecting egg tiles in the aforementioned manner will destroy any Deow'Nz of that same color and trigger a special effect. These effects may differ slightly depending on the game mode. For instance, in single-player mode, destroying a gray Hawk'n will wipe out 12 additional eggs. Doing so in a split screen versus mode will spawn another creature, the green Citr'n, on the opponent's play field. Destroying a Citr'n will cause a layer of mismatched eggs to fall on that player's own field in all modes. The single-player option in Trip'd acts as a practice or survival mode and features a score that increases when eggs and Deow'Nz are eliminated. The speed at which the triads fall will steadily rise until the level increases, resulting in a layer of eggs disappearing and the speed resetting. The game features two versus modes which allow the player to either battle a second human opponent or choose a match against one of eight computer-controlled opponents of varying difficulty. A fourth mode called "Trip'Dance" allows the player to create music with each of the gamepad's buttons corresponding to a different instrument and psychedelic visual displayed on-screen.
Trip’d is abandonware and no longer sold or supported by its publishers. Files are archived here for these platforms:
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