Interceptor

Pilot a fighter jet through escalating waves, refuel mid-flight, and bring down the Stormwing bomber.

Objective

Fly a top-down fighter through four escalating waves of hostile aircraft, then engage the Stormwing heavy bomber. Your machine gun fires automatically; conserve homing missiles for armored targets. You start with 3 lives and a finite fuel tank. The run ends when you take a hit with no lives remaining, run out of fuel and stall into the ground, or destroy the bomber to win the mission.

Controls

Input	Action
← ↑ ↓ → / WASD	Fly — thrust in any direction
Space (hold)	Launch homing missile (consumes 1 ammo)
Mouse / touch	Drag to steer toward pointer; hold to fire missiles
Esc	Pause
Space / tap	Start, respawn, or restart from the title or game-over screen

How it works

• Wave progression — the mission runs through four sky phases before the boss arrives. Phase 1 spawns only light Type A scouts; Phase 2 adds Type B seekers that drift toward you and shoot back; Phase 3 adds Type C sin-wave fliers that lock and launch homing missiles.
• Fuel burn — your tank drains at 0.3 units per frame. The HUD bar turns yellow below 60%, red below 30%, and pulses with a low-fuel alarm under 20%. Hit zero and the engine stalls — you free-fall with no control until you crash.
• Fuel pads — green tanker pods drop in every 30–40 seconds. Fly over one to refuel at +6 per frame (about a full tank in 5 seconds), but each pad only carries 1500 units before it empties.
• Power-ups — enemies drop crates with a 4% chance (8% from Type C). Double Barrel upgrades your guns (lost on death), +10 Missiles adds homing ammo, and Shield grants 30 seconds of one-hit invulnerability.
• Homing missiles — Space launches a missile that auto-locks the nearest target inside a 90° forward cone. Missiles deal 4 damage and bypass the boss's armor; MG bullets deal 1 but get reduced to 0.3 off the boss's weak point.
• Stormwing boss — the bomber has 60 HP and three combat phases: heavy MG only above 75% HP, adds spread volleys below 75%, and deploys escort drones below 50%. Its cockpit strip is a weak point that doubles damage.
• Lives & respawn — one hit downs you. You respawn with full fuel and 120 frames of invincibility, keep your missile stockpile, but lose any Double Barrel upgrade.

Scoring

• Type A kill: +20 — the gray scouts.
• Type B kill: +40 — red seekers (2 HP).
• Type C kill: +80 — purple missile-platforms (3 HP).
• Stormwing kill: +2000 bonus on top of all the hits along the way.
• Survival bonus: +1 per second of mission time, awarded when you destroy the bomber.
• Double Barrel pickup while already armed: +50 consolation points.

Strategy

• Hoard missiles for the boss. Each missile deals 4 damage anywhere on Stormwing, versus 0.3 from an off-target MG round. A stockpile of 15+ homers turns a long armored slugfest into a 30-second execution.
• Aim for the cockpit strip. The narrow band near the top-center of the bomber doubles damage. Slot yourself directly below it and pour the MG straight up — it's the only place bullets are efficient.
• Refuel early, refuel often. Tanker pads scroll past quickly. Pass over one even at 70% fuel — you may not see another for 40 seconds, and a stall during the boss phase is unsurvivable.
• Outrun homing missiles vertically. Enemy missiles can only deviate 70° from straight-down. Climb above the launcher's altitude and they physically cannot turn back — this is your free escape any time you hear the lock-warning beep.
• Kill Type C first. The purple sin-wave fliers are the only mid-wave threat that launches homers. Drop a missile on them the moment they appear in Phase 3 — they're worth +80 and drop crates at double the rate.
• Save the shield for Phase 3 or the boss. A 30-second shield wasted on a Phase 1 scout is a tragedy. Pocket it visually (it auto-expires) and trigger it only when the screen fills with spray volleys.
• Don't camp the bottom. Enemies despawn at y > H+30 with no penalty, but you lose easy points and risk Type B drifting onto you. Cruise around mid-screen so missiles can lock forward targets and you have room to dodge sideways.

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