- Pace82 · frantic
- Seeds fall without a break: a tap every second or so, chains that go off at once, a pulse that climbs from 116 to 148 beats per minute, and short breathers only between waves.
- Difficulty69 · rather merciless
- Every seed that reaches a roof puts a house out for good, until the end of the stage. All six dark and the wave starts over, about fifty seconds back; it gets a little gentler, without saying so, after two failures on the same wave.
- Tone85.9 · unsettling
- Halloween is close: seeds with eyes, black roots over the roofs, something watching from the dark windows, and a star that swallows the sky before staring at you with an eye the size of the night.
- Story6 · silent
- Not a line of story: a title, a drawn hand for the first tap, two words of advice, and a few words when the village goes dark. The story is in the windows lighting up and going out.
- Scale81.5 · cosmic
- You never leave one village roof, but everything falls from far away: the Milky Way, the aurora, a moon swallowed whole, and a black star that grows stage by stage until it fills the sky.
- Form20.5 · rather familiar
- Familiar sky defence: aim ahead, let the circle bloom, catch several seeds at once. Each new seed is a twist on the same gesture, nothing to learn but your timing.
- Look95 · lush
- A dense, glowing night: hundreds of stars, the Milky Way, curtains of aurora, cyan trails, amber blooms that set off chains of sparks, stars streaming into the black star, and a galaxy for an iris. Toned down on old phones.
The theme
A late October night over a hilltop village. The windows light up one by one, a pumpkin keeps watch on a doorstep, and at the zenith a black star opens an eye. It sows falling seeds that drop towards the houses: each one that hits a roof puts the house out and covers it in black roots. From the observatory you hold the sky from dusk to the dead hour, while the star eats the constellations, then the moon, and becomes an Eye as wide as the night. When it shatters, a rain of golden stars relights the village, the roots blossom and dawn comes up.
The mechanics
The sky defence everyone knows, made of light: tap the sky (finger, click, or Space with the arrow keys to aim), a light rises from the observatory and blooms into a circle where you aimed. Any seed caught inside bursts and blooms a smaller light, which sets off chain reactions. Eight charges that come back fast; you have to aim ahead of the seeds. Each stage adds its own seed, shown once without danger: seeds that split in three, seeds that stop and then dive, seeds that weave, then nests that drop more and take three hits. The last stage is the Eye: hit its pupil when it opens, six times. If every house goes dark, you replay the wave (under a minute) with at least two houses lit.
Palette
Indigo and violet sky #1a0f2e to #3b1d4a, pink dusk #8a3b5c, a sickly green aurora #3df2a6, amber blooms #ffb36b turning white at the core, pale cyan trails #bff6ff, windows #ffcf6e, pumpkin #ff7a1a, black silhouettes #07040c, a blood moon at the dead hour, gold #ffe08a for the final rain. Cinzel. Lush, festive and threatening, like fireworks fighting back.
