Snailschat has a total of four minigames: Airdrop, Connect Four, Mudrun, and Shell Fall.

Airdrop is located on the Cliff in Snailschat. The game is single player and, like every game, is available for all to play. Shell Fall was originally on the Cliff, but because Airdrop was created and designed for a large drop, it replaced Shell Fall. The game is still available today.


View of the Cliff

The only controls are the arrow keys. The left and right arrows are to steer your snail left or right on the screen. The down arrow accelerates the snail downward and the up arrow releases the parachute required to land safely.

Airdrop involves a player to collect a certain amount of coins that are conveniently floating in the air before the snail hits the ground. The player can get more coins than the amount labeled if they have the skill to surpass it. The player is equipped with a parachute because, well, falling off a 30,000 m cliff isn't exactly survivable without the right safety equipment. If the player does not use the parachute before they land on the ground, the snail will be squashed on the grass (there is a bug that after Level 1, the parachute is not required to land safely and so the up arrow is useless during Level 2+). Also, if you do not meet the minimal requirements of the amount of coins you should acquire, you will smash onto the ground regardless if you were using the parachute (this applies to all levels).

Tips for Airdrop

Some people dislike Airdrop because of it's difficulty when first playing the game. However, once the player gets use to the game, it becomes really easy to play. Once a user can get comfortable with the game, they can exceed to levels such as level 8 or even higher. The game is also the fastest way to make money on Snailschat, but because of it being hard to play at first, many people ignore it and play Connect Four, believing that is the best way to easily make money.

Here are some tips to play Airdrop. When you play, you want to slightly tap the down arrow occasionally, as it will give you an extra 40 coins boost every time you hit it. However, the down button needs to 'recharge' and won't give any extra points after using it until a certain amount of time. The precise time is unknown, but it is theorized that the more coins you get, the more 'recharged' the down arrow will be.

However, a 40 point bonus is useless if you can't manually get the coins yourself. This seems to be the most aggravating part of the game. A trick I use is to go back and forth, or left and right, to increase the amount of area I cover. Before I continue, please note that I'm not an aviation scientist and so I won't be using specific terms to describe the following circumstances. Moving one direction and jerking your snail to the opposite direction allows the snail to act like a slingshot. If you see a coin appear on the screen, simply hit the arrow key that the coin is located, such as if the coin was to your right, simply move to your right until you reach it. There will be times when you will hit the left and right keys and as soon as you hit, say, the left key, a coin will emerge to the right side, meaning your snail is too far away from the coin to get it. Use your brain to strategically move your snail appropriately. If you notice that the coin is too far away, simply don't go for it. Even if you see a flock of coins that you miss in a row because they were too far away, don't try to go after them. The coins are always dispersed randomly; there is no telling where the next coin will be. I've experienced missing a lot of coins before as well, it happens all the time. Be patient and practice a lot.

While I do not recommend this tip, it is useful to get a large sum of coins. If you have a relatively slow computer, the game may lag for you. When you experience the frame rate to drop, you notice that more coins will be created as well as the snail going slower. This allows players who do not have quick reflexes to easily go after coins as well as collecting them in larger amounts than normal. Again, this is not recommended because it's a bug that could be fixed in the near future, and since not everyone has a slow computer, not everyone will experience this bug.

Known Bugs
These bugs have existed or still do exist in the minigame Airdrop:

• Fixed - after every level, more and more coins would spawn, even when the player leaves the game and starts back to level 1:
  
  
• Unfixed - with slow computers that cannot generate the game well, the game lags, causing it to generate more coins than the game would generate if played regularly, causing a similar feature to that of the first bug (before the first bug was fixed, this bug combined with the first one would cause an extreme surplus of coins to cause the event seen above)

I hope this helped with some things regarding Airdrop.

For the main overview of Snailschat, see http://forums.clubpenguin.pro/view/7480-/ .

For a guide to get the Rainbow Shell, see http://forums.clubpenguin.pro/view/?id=7519 by Moriarty.

That's all.