Belt Runner

Fly a small ship through a drifting rock field, break the rocks apart and dodge the saucers.

Best score 0

How to play

How to play

Turn, thrust and fire through a wrapping field of rocks that split as you shoot them, with saucers that shoot back. Keyboard and touch controls, best score saved on your device, and it works offline.

You fly a small ship in a field of drifting rocks. The field wraps: leave one edge and you come back in at the opposite one. Shoot a rock and it breaks in two, large to medium to small, until only dust is left. Clear the field and the next wave arrives 2 seconds later, with one more rock each time up to 11.

Controls

ActionKeys
Rotate leftLeft arrow or A
Rotate rightRight arrow or D
ThrustUp arrow or W
FireSpace
HyperspaceShift
Pause or resumeP or Esc

On a touch screen the five buttons under the field do the same. You can have 4 shots in flight at once and each lasts 1.2 seconds. Hyperspace jumps your ship to a random spot, but it fails 1 time in 6.

Scoring

TargetPoints
Large rock20
Medium rock50
Small rock100
Large saucer200
Small saucer1,000

Lives and saucers

You start with 3 lives and earn one more at every 10,000 points. A new ship appears in the middle once that spot is clear of rocks, and is safe for 2 seconds. From wave 2 a large saucer crosses the field now and then and fires at random. After 10,000 points the saucers are small and aim at you.

Your best score and your sound setting are saved in this browser. Nothing is sent anywhere. Belt Runner is drawn on a canvas, so it cannot be played with a screen reader.