One bullet. It enters from the left and never stops — walls bounce it forever. Click anywhere on the field and the bullet bends up to 60° toward your cursor: toward a target you want to hit, or away from a hazard about to swallow it.

You don’t move. The bullet does. You only steer it.

The twist

Most shooting games have you firing many bullets at fixed targets. Here the bullet is a persistent thing — a single object careening around a closed room — and your job is to babysit it. Every click is an investment: you spend a small bend now to put the bullet somewhere useful in two seconds.

The interesting decision is when notto click. Every nudge perturbs a trajectory you’ve already half-planned in your head. Resist the urge to over-correct. The bullet was already going to ricochet into that target on its next bounce — let it.

The math

The bullet moves at constant speed and reflects perfectly off each wall. On click, I take the angle from bullet to cursor, compare it to the current heading, and rotate by min(60°, |Δθ|)in the direction of the cursor. So a single click carves at most a 60° arc; reversing the bullet end-to-end takes three clicks at minimum, gated by a small cooldown so you can’t mash your way out of a bad situation.

Targets fade after a few seconds (less time as the run progresses). Hazards spawn at a point and grow outward to a capped radius, then sit there for a while before shrinking out. Hitting a fully-formed hazard ends the run; clipping one in its first half-second doesn’t, which gives you a beat to bend away from a bad spawn.

What I’m unsure about

Whether the bend size is right. 60° feels powerful enough to rescue a doomed run but small enough that you can’t just click frantically and live. Playtesting this honestly — well, I’m the only playtester so far, and I designed the bend, so my proprioception is biased toward thinking my own touch is correct.