Six ways to break a rock on one engine: split rocks to bank a pot, shoot hearts whole, outlast a whirlpool, lasso hunters and blow a boss apart plate by plate, or all of it in one run.
Goal: Pick a mode on the title, then fly and break rocks: a shot cleaves a rock along its line, and the smallest pieces burst into gems. SHATTER runs every idea in one go; BURST fills a HELD pot that banks when you clear the wave; SEAM vaporises a rock whole when its heart's light finds you; MAW forges bombs from gems before the boss wakes; HUNT catches whatever you fly a loop round; WHIRLPOOL pays x3 for kills on the gold lip.
Controls: Drag to fly and fire · let go to coast · NOVA clears shots · keys: WASD / arrows, Space, P
Pick a mode on the title screen, then drag to fly: your guns fire at whatever is ahead of you while your thumb is down, and letting go coasts with the guns quiet. A shot cleaves a rock along the line it flew and the smallest pieces burst into gems. Every enemy shot is warned before it fires, and NOVA clears the shots around you.
SHATTER runs every idea in one run, sector by sector. BURST fills a HELD pot that banks when you clear the wave, and a hit costs half of it. SEAM pays most when a heart rock's light finds you and the whole rock vaporises. MAW is a race to forge bombs from gems before the boss is born. HUNT catches whatever you fly a loop round. WHIRLPOOL pays x3 for kills on the gold lip of the drain.
They are VECTASHATTER's BURST, SEAM, MAW, HUNT and WHIRLPOOL modes now. Their old links open the mode, each mode posts to its old game's leaderboard, and your best score from the old game counts as the mode's best.
TODAY'S BELT: one SHATTER run a day (UTC), the same rocks for everyone, on a leaderboard of its own. The DAILY button on the title screen starts it.