NEON STRIKE

CONTROLS

• A ← Thrust left
• D → Thrust right
• Shift Dash (2.4s cooldown)
• W X Ctrl Fire cannon, or left click (0.32s cooldown)
• Esc P Pause
• M Mute
• F Fullscreen
• B Show hitboxes

READING THE GRID

• Warm pink / red will hurt you.
• Cool cyan & violet is scenery — never lethal.
• Bright green, yellow, white means a power-up.
• A laser always paints its lethal lanes on the floor first, then charges, then fires. Move during the charge.
• A flickering cyan targeting zone is a fake-out. It never fires. Respecting it costs you nothing.
• The forward cannon can shoot down bullets at range — lasers cannot be shot. They're always read-and-dodge.

SCORING

• Survive: 14/sec · Clean dodge: 12
• INTERCEPT: 18 — shoot a bullet down before it reaches you.
• NEAR MISS: 25 — pass within a hair of a hazard.
• Wave cleared: 200 × wave · Power-up: 50
• Every dodge and graze adds +1 combo, and combo multiplies everything up to ×5.
• Taking damage resets the combo to zero. The greedy line and the safe line are not the same line.

POWER-UPS