Gravity Shift

A ball and four walls, where down is whichever direction you choose. Every flip commits you to a fall, and the fall is watched rather than steered — the decision is made before it starts.

A fifth of a coin a point, on the same scale as ECHO and One Bullet: around 100 a room, with a perfect ladder near 1,000 points and 200 coins.

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

Flip late rather than early. The ball keeps its momentum through a change of gravity, so a flip made at the last moment travels further than one made at the start of the same fall.

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 112 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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