A crash follows the silhouette
Players judge the gap by eye, from how the ship looks. A crash counts within 85% of the wingspan, and in a bank the strip gets narrower still. A wingtip can graze an obstacle without costing a shield.
Arcade space shooter
Neon Impact
You fly your ship into the screen, dodge obstacles and shoot down whatever is in the way. A boss waits at the end of every galaxy.
Coming soon to the App Store and Google Play
- Platform
- iPhone and iPad (iOS 15 or later), Android 7 or later
- Price
- Free, with ads and in-app purchases
- Languages
- English, Polish, German, Spanish, French, Italian
- Age rating
- 9+ on the App Store, PEGI 7 on Google Play
Real gameplay on film
Three moments from the game: weaving between walls in the first galaxy, firing three cannons at once and the fight with the Broodqueen until it blows up.
How to play
Steer with a finger
Slide your finger sideways to dodge an obstacle. Moving it up and down takes you forward or back.
Hold to fire
The ship shoots for as long as you hold the button. Energy cells you pick up on the way refill the ammo. Ten kills in a row add a cannon, up to three, and a crash takes them away.
Beat the boss
The tenth level of each galaxy ends with a boss fight. You shoot its parts off one by one, and every attack shows a moment before it lands.
Modes, galaxies and ships
The campaign has 5 galaxies of 10 levels each. A level gives up to three stars: for finishing it, for collecting 70% of the crystals and for losing no shield.
Campaign
Orion Belt, Crab Nebula, Ice Ring, Red Dwarf and Black Hole. A level always has the same course, so you can learn it. From the third level on, each galaxy adds its own hazard: mines, turrets, solar flares or gravity wells.
Bosses
Rockjaw, Broodqueen, Frostcoil, Lanternmaw and Abyss Eye. Each one attacks differently, and the first win gives crystals and a ship skin.
Run
A flight with no finish line that opens after you beat the first boss. Every 2000 m the area changes, with its own backdrop and music. Close calls, Fury, Tempests and a multiplier for flying without a crash push the score up.
Leaderboard
A Run score goes to the world, weekly and monthly leaderboards. The top 1000 of the week get crystals, and the monthly podium gets skins you cannot earn any other way.
Ships
Eight ships bought with crystals, from Iskra to Cień. Each has six upgrades with 10 levels. The four most expensive have a special ability, such as a Salvo of 10 rockets.
Free to play
You collect crystals in flight, from three daily missions and for a streak of days in a row. An ad shows after every three finished levels, never before a boss. The shop has crystal packs, skins and a No ads purchase.
What I did
Neon Impact is a shooter in the style of Space Impact from old Nokia phones, flown into the screen. I made it on my own, from the rules to submitting it to the App Store and Google Play.
- Rules
- A 50-level campaign with stars, a scored Run mode, eight ships with upgrades and their prices in crystals.
- Look
- Neon ships and skins, five bosses as space creatures, planets and black holes in the background.
- Development
- The whole game for iPhone, iPad and Android: flying, shooting, boss fights and saved progress you can move to a new phone.
- Music and sound
- Synthwave music with a separate theme for the menu, the boss fight and each of the 10 areas. Vibration with three settings.
- Leaderboard
- Three leaderboards with rewards, random pilot names in the player’s language and reporting of offensive names.
- Store
- Crystal packs, skins, ads and submitting the game to the App Store and Google Play.
Decisions
Neon Impact has a black space backdrop, glowing edges and strong neon colours. The game is played in landscape, with the camera flying behind the ship. Below are a few things I settled for a game played with two thumbs: one steers, the other fires.
Every boss attack shows first
An attack with no warning would leave no chance to dodge. The boss signals every shot, laser and wall, and laser lanes always leave one lane free.
Losing to a boss does not send you back
The Fight the boss button restarts the fight with the shields and ammo you had when the boss appeared. You do not fly the approach again.
Tips during the flight
At your first close call, first Fury or first Tempest, the game stops, highlights that spot and explains it in one sentence. Each tip shows once. You can bring them back in the settings.
Controls that fit your hand
Left-handed players can move the fire button to the left side. It comes in three sizes, and steering sensitivity goes from 50 to 150%.
Pilot names without slurs
Everyone on the leaderboard sees other players’ names. A filter blocks offensive words in six languages, also when written with digits in place of letters, and you can report or hide a pilot.
- campaign levels
- 50
- ships
- 8
- bosses
- 5
Screens
Neon Impact
The game is waiting for approval in the App Store and Google Play.