One Bullet

One shot per room, aimed and released, and it has to do everything the room needs. It has the slowest music in the arcade because aiming is a held breath and a track that hurries the shot costs you the room.

A fifth of a coin a point, the puzzle rate. The same roughly 1,000 points for a clean ladder, and the same absence of any way to grind it.

The cabinet pays 0.2 coins per point of score, before the daily cap described on the arcade page.

Use fine aim. On a keyboard that is Shift, and the difference between a coarse and a fine adjustment is most of the rooms in the back half of the game.

That is the third-highest of the 5 rates in use, shared with 2 other cabinets. The rates are not arbitrary: a cabinet with a natural ceiling pays more per point than one you can play forever, because the second kind can be farmed by playing longer and the first can only be farmed by playing better.

The tempo is a design parameter rather than decoration. A cabinet is allowed its own BPM and nothing else about its music, because tempo is the one musical thing a game has an opinion about — a game played in bursts wants a different pulse from one played in a held breath. At 96 this is among the slowest here, deliberately.

Payouts are computed on the server, not in your browser — a balance the page holds is a balance a player can edit. The first 500 coins a day come at full rate and everything after that at a fifth.

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