Prisma Duel

browser. You fly one fighter in a mirrored arena strewn with dichroic crystals. Nothing

Everybody plans at the same time, against a clock. When the last pilot commits — or

executes for everyone at once. There is no initiative order and no waiting your turn. The

Drag the handle at the end of your course line. The direction you drag is your heading;

how far you drag is your speed. The arrow keys do the same job if you prefer them, with

Shift for a finer step when you are threading a shot through a crystal.

Speed is bought from the same power the laser capacitor wants. A long drag is a fast run

with nothing left to charge with; a short one is a tight turn that fills the capacitor. The

the whole interface. Your course carries over between turns, so holding a curve is what

The beam is welded to your nose. There is no turret, no lead indicator and no lock.

somebody in the beam for a whole turn is fatal. Because hitting anything means turning to

Firing spends the entire capacitor and suppresses shield regeneration for that turn.

Shields absorb before hull, and they only come back on turns you keep the laser cold.

and angle, generated from the arena seed — so no two arenas look alike. They are solid

cover, and they refract. Fire through one and your beam bends, disperses into a rainbow fan,