Slice Master Cash and Knives: What Things Are Worth
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Who made it
Slice Master is a 3D game built in PlayCanvas by the studio PlayCalm. The studio lists it on its own site with the line Cut through objects as a knife, but avoid the deadly ground and spikes (playcalm.co). This page covers the parts of the game that the home page does not: how the cash is counted and how the shop spends it.
What each object pays
Every object you cut shows a small +N $ label where it splits. Most things in the normal levels pay 1. The values below come from the levels the game actually plays:
| Pays | Objects |
|---|---|
| +1 $ | Apples, lemons, coconuts, onions, donuts, wafers, macaroons, marshmallows, chocolate, cups, plates, and the plain blocks, tubes and balls |
| +5 $ | Bread, burgers and cheese, plus the coins in bonus levels |
| +25 $ | Watermelons and stacks of money |
| +50 $ | Gold bars (bonus levels) |
| +200 $ | The one diamond, in a bonus level |
A few cups and plates in one bonus level pay more than usual. One watermelon is worth 25 apples. In the normal levels, watermelons and money stacks are the objects to aim for when there is a choice of path.
The streak messages
Cutting objects in a quick run, each within a fifth of a second of the last, builds a streak. When the streak ends, the game shows a message if it was long enough:
- more than 18 cuts: NICE!, GREAT! or EXCELLENT!
- more than 25 cuts: AMAZING!, AWESOME! or WOW!
- more than 50 cuts: INCREDIBLE!, TERRIFIC! or FANTASTIC! in yellow
The messages and the rising pitch of the slice sound are the only reward. A streak adds no cash of its own.
The knife shop
The shop holds nine knives in a three-by-three grid, and you start with one. There is no way to pick a knife to buy. The UNLOCK RANDOM button spends cash and opens one locked knife at random, and the price goes up with every knife you own:
| Knives owned | Price of the next one |
|---|---|
| 1 | $3,000 |
| 2 | $5,000 |
| 3 | $8,000 |
| 4 | $13,000 |
| 5 | $20,500 |
| 6 | $33,000 |
| 7 | $52,500 |
| 8 | $84,000 |
The full set costs $219,000. Once you own all nine, the shop shows KNIFE COLLECTION COMPLETE! The shop also has a button that plays a video ad for a quarter of the next knife's price, rounded down to the nearest hundred. After you use it, it is gone for five minutes. Tapping a knife you own equips it. In the game code every knife uses the same jump and spin values, so a new knife changes the look, not the timing.
Progress and scenery
Your cash, level, knives and best total are saved in the browser, so they stay between visits on the same browser and are lost if its site data is cleared. The first level is a tutorial. The next three come from a small set of easy layouts. After that the levels are drawn from a larger shuffled set, and some later levels join two layouts into one longer course. The scenery changes every four levels, and one of the settings has falling snow.
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