Hold the dome. Your catapult sits in a glowing forcefield with creatures camped on both sides, and the armed ones shoot back: pull back away from the side you aim at, fling little robots and pop the shooters before the dome breaks.
Goal: Pop every creature before the forcefield runs out. The armed ones shoot back with cannons and grenade launchers, and every shot is shown for a second before it leaves, so pop the shooters first. Up to three stars a battle: win it, hold the dome, and stay inside the robots you are given.
Controls: Touch: pull back, let go to fling, tap for its move · Keys: ← → aim, ↑ ↓ power, Space fire
Your catapult sits in the middle of the field inside a forcefield dome, with neon creatures camped on both sides. Drag anywhere and pull back away from the side you want to hit (pull right to fling left), then let go to fire a little robot. Tap while it flies to use its move. Pop every creature to win. Controls: drag and release, tap in flight; keyboard arrows, Space, R, P and M; gamepad stick and A.
Yes, in real time. Armed creatures carry a cannon, which fires a slow shell, or a grenade launcher, which lobs a grenade that bounces and goes off in a blast. Every shot is shown for about a second first, with an aim line and a charge glow, so it is never a surprise. Hit a shooter and it loses its charge; pop it and it never fires.
The dome soaks three hits, and it cracks and flares on each. With it down, the next hit breaks the catapult and the battle is lost. A tap starts it again at once. Nothing heals and there are no lives.
Yes. VECTAPULT runs free in your browser with no download, no install and no account. Your stars are kept on this device.
Yes. It is built for a thumb in portrait or landscape: the whole battlefield is always on screen, nothing scrolls, and you can pull back from anywhere. It is built for 60 frames a second on a mid-range phone, and on a slower one it lightens the picture instead of slowing the game down.
World 1 has eight battles and the last is a boss. Each battle gives one star for winning it, one for holding the dome (two or more forcefield pips left) and one for using no more robots than you are given. The seven robots are one colour each: the plain pellet, and six with a tap move: the triplet (split into three), dart (dash forward), anvil (slam straight down), blast (go off), boomer (swing back) and glue (stick). Your total stars is your score on the board.
An endless mode. Every wave builds new camps on both sides, a boss comes every fifth wave, and between waves you pick one of two robots. Your dome carries over: a wave with no hits gives a pip back. Your score is every pop times your chain, plus a bonus for each wave cleared.