Bolt Timing

Bolt Timing - a timing game built around one horizontal meter with a moving pointer, a green segment inside it and red segments on both sides. The round begins as soon as the game screen opens: the pointer travels from edge to edge without stopping, and a press on the round button under the meter is counted at the exact position the pointer holds at that moment. A press inside the green segment counts as a precise hit, it adds points that grow with the current level and with the length of the ongoing series, raises the series counter and adds twenty percent to the lightning charge shown at the bottom of the screen. A press over a red segment breaks the series and takes a quarter of the charge away, and when the charge falls to zero the round is over. A full charge is released at once and turns into a large amount of extra points, after which the charge drops back and starts filling again. Every four precise hits raise the level: the green segment gets narrower, from forty two percent of the meter down to eight percent, and the pointer moves faster, so the same press asks for finer timing. Panels at the top of the game screen show the points, the current series and the level, and the line under them repeats the width of the green segment in percent and the level number. A pause button freezes the pointer, the timers and the animations and opens a small panel with buttons for continuing, starting the round over and going back to the menu. The closing panel of a finished round shows the points, the longest series, the number of precise hits and the accuracy in percent, and offers a repeat of the round or a way back to the menu. The highest points total is kept between launches and is shown on the menu screen.