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Space Rocks

Space Rocks

Pilot a ship through a wrapping asteroid field. Touch and hold to aim, thrust, and auto-fire.

How to play

Touch and hold anywhere on the screen. The ship rotates to point at your finger, thrusts forward, and auto-fires every 0.25 seconds.

More: full rules and tips

Release to coast — the ship keeps its momentum (no friction in space). Move your finger to a new spot to change direction; the ship will swing around and accelerate toward the new heading.

The arena wraps: ships, bullets, and asteroids all leave one edge and reappear on the opposite edge.

Asteroids come in three sizes:
• Large = 20 points. Shooting a large one splits it into two mediums.
• Medium = 50 points. Splits into two smalls.
• Small = 100 points. Destroyed clean.

Clear every asteroid to advance to the next wave (one more large, slightly faster). Touching ANY asteroid with the ship ends the game. Score = sum across waves.

Tips & strategy

Inertia is your enemy until you learn to use it. Beginners hold the finger down constantly and end up screaming across the screen into the next asteroid. Tap-release-tap-release to manage speed: short bursts of thrust keep you maneuverable; long bursts get you into trouble.

Use the wrap. The screen wrapping is a free teleport — bullets that leave the right edge instantly threaten asteroids near the left edge. When surrounded, aim near a screen edge to fire 'around the world' — sometimes your own bullet wraps and hits an asteroid behind you.

Finish one rock family before cracking the next. Small rocks only exist because you broke something bigger: every large rock becomes two mediums and then four smalls, and the whole family is worth 520 points (20 + 2×50 + 4×100), most of it from the smalls at the end. The score is the same whatever order you shoot in, so the order is purely about safety — split one large, clean up its fast little pieces while you can still track them, and only then start on the next. A screen full of small fast rocks from three broken families is much harder to survive than a few slow giants.

Don't fire constantly into open space. Auto-fire continues whenever you're holding — bullets near you can occlude your view of incoming asteroids. Release your finger briefly when no asteroid is in your line of fire; the moment of quiet helps you reassess.