Main Menu
On the game’s main menu you’ll see different color Vyker spacecrafts. Choose one and then press PLAY.
The color you choose makes no difference and gives you no extra advantage. You’re simply choosing whatever color you like. If you don’t choose one, you’ll be assigned one randomly.
Loading
After you press PLAY the game will load briefly. You’ll be assigned one of the following eight missions:
• Score The Most Points
• Score The Highest Rating
• Survive The Longest
• Log The Most Time As #1
• Match The Most Cargo
• Collect The Most Cargo
• Grow The Longest
• Kill The Most Enemies
The mission will display near the bottom of the screen…
You can follow your assigned mission or select a different mission by pressing the MISSION TOGGLE button.
You can also play without a mission. Learn more about missions on the FAQs page.
User Interface and Essential Controls
Game Start
Once the game begins you collect cargo to grow your Vyker longer and score points.
Attacks
You can attack enemies by smashing into their cargo. But be careful! If you smash into a color that is NOT YOUR COLOR you will lose some power. Each impact with an enemy will reduce your power by 5%, unless you impact your OWN color. Once your power reaches 0% it’s game over!
But smashing into cargoes that are YOUR COLOR will cause your enemy to explode and break apart! Only cargoes of their OWN COLOR will stop the explosion from reaching their head, which would’ve caused them to die instantly.
But enemies can do the same to you if you’re carrying THEIR COLOR. And if you don’t have any cargo of your OWN COLOR to stop the explosion from reaching your head you will die!
Flashing dots will appear over cargoes that are under attack. You can shutdown these attacks by striking the attacker’s head with a missile or with your nose!
If you want to play it safe you can protect yourself from attacks by collecting ONLY your OWN COLOR. But note: You score five times the points collecting OTHER color cargo, as a reward for taking the risk!
Locator Map
The locator map shows the locations of all cargoes that are your color, as well as beneficial objects (these are explained below).
Matching and Converting Colors
Since carrying other colors leaves you vulnerable to attacks, you may feel hesitant to collect them! But you can CONVERT these other colors to your OWN color. And this is where the fun really begins!
There are three ways to convert colors… #1: Collect a LIGHTNING object. This will convert all OTHER colors you’re carrying to your OWN color.
#2: Collect 10 of any single color (not your OWN color) and that color will automatically convert to your color. Use the Color Match Helper in the top-right to help you!
#3: Collect an EQUAL number of all OTHER colors. This is called “matching”. So, for example, if you collect ONE each of every OTHER color (not your own color) this is called Match-1. If you collect TWO each of every OTHER color (not your own color) this is called Match-2, and so on. All matched colors will convert to your color. So if you collect 2 each of all 9 other colors, all of them (18 total) will convert to your color. Use the Color Match Helper in the top-right to help you.
Matching colors scores you the most points. For example, if you achieve Match-9 you’ll score 25,000,000 points! Keep reading below for more information on match scoring.
So you must decide how you want to play… Play it safe by collecting only your OWN color? Or live on the edge by strategically collecting OTHER colors and then trying to match and convert them for big time points!
Special Objects
Collect these special objects to get benefits:
• Lightning: Converts all cargo you’re carrying to your color.
• Recharge: Restores your power to 100%.
• Missiles: Gives you 25 additional missiles (99 maximum).
• Music: Gives you one additional music play.
Avoid collecting these HARMFUL objects:
• Radioactive: Converts half of your colors to other colors (40 maximum).
• Bomb: Causes the back half of your Vyker to explode.
• Death: Causes your entire Vyker to explode. Game over!
Missiles
Striking enemies with missiles won’t do anything, unless they’re attacking you. If you’re under attack by an enemy (sometimes indicated by flashing white dots, as shown in the video below), one missile strike to their head will shutdown their attack and cause them to turn away.
Also use missiles to do these… Shoot free-floating cargoes or harmful objects, repelling them away from you to protect you.
Shoot harmful objects causing them to hurl towards enemies to possibly harm them. For example, if you shoot a DEATH object and then it strikes an enemy in a vulnerable spot, it will destroy it! And you’ll get credit for one enemy kill! — Fun!!
Note: This will NOT work if the object strikes the enemy’s OWN color cargo. Its own color cargo acts as a shield and will repel all harmful objects, which means the DEATH object may ricochet and hurl back at you!
Also, you can make enemies explode by causing two cargoes of the SAME color to collide. For example, if a silver Vyker is carrying some green cargoes, try to shoot a free-floating green cargo so it gets propelled and impacts their green cargo. See the video below. This will cause an explosion!
Note: In the above example, an explosion would NOT have happened if the enemy’s color was green instead of silver. Shooting a green cargo into a green enemy’s body will simply cause that cargo to get absorbed into them.
Be crafty by shooting your OWN color cargo so it gets propelled and impacts an enemy in a vulnerable spot (again, if it impacts an enemy at their OWN color it will bounce off). Then proceed to attack that enemy by striking them at the location where your cargo is! See below…
Personal Records and World Records
Try to score the highest marks for all eight missions! Set your own records… then try to beat them! Compete with friends and family to see who can do the best! And also try to set some world records!!
Turbo
Press the turbo button to go faster! Important: Turbo can only be activated if you’re carrying at least one of your OWN color cargoes. And one of these cargoes gets ejected every 25 seconds while turbo is active.
FAQs
Learn more on the FAQs & Tips page such as…
• Tips on how to score the most points
• Tips on how to survive the longest
• How to use your computer keyboard to play the game
• How our unique game rating works
• Customizing the display
• And much more!
Now go play!
