SPACEDRIFT

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How do I play?

You pilot a scout ship in an asteroid field. Survive each wave — clear every hostile on screen and the next wave begins, a little harder. Rotate, thrust to drift, and fire. That's the whole game. Your score climbs with every kill and every wave you clear. New here? Tap Free Flight and just fly — it's the full game, no wallet and no stakes.

How do I earn?

1. Enter a paid mode — Daily Ranked or Wave Streak, for a small entry fee.
2. Score high — your run posts to the on-chain leaderboard.
3. Get paid automatically — top finishers split the prize pool, sent straight to your wallet. No claim button, no middleman.

You never touch crypto directly — you pay in everyday dollars (stablecoins) and win in dollars.

Controls

Left / right rotate your ship. Thrust drifts you forward through the vacuum — momentum carries, so feather it. Fire launches vector rounds. Toggle between the button cluster and the thumb stick from the in-game control switch.

The Swarm

• Drift Stones — inert debris. Split into smaller shards when hit. Low threat.
• Swarm Drones — seek your position. Medium threat.
• Sniper Shade — thin silver rhombus, fires from range. High threat — strafe it.

Powerups

• Spread — triple-shot for a short burst.
• Shield — absorbs the next hits.
• Rapid — faster fire rate.
• Temporal Slow — bends time, slowing the whole field while you keep pace.

Stages

• Nebula Drift — waves 1–4. The calm before.
• Ion Storm — waves 5–9. Charged debris, faster swarm.
• Ember Reach — waves 10–14. Heat-warped field.
• Void Rift — waves 15+. The deep dark. Maximum threat.

Paying & stablecoins

SpaceDrift runs on three Celo stablecoins — USDm, USDC and USDT — all worth ~$1. You never pick one by hand: the game auto-detects your balances and routes each payment to the right token, shown simply as USD.

• Cosmetics, extra lives & callsigns — buy anytime with USDm, USDC or USDT. No restrictions.
• Daily Ranked & Wave Streak pools — each stablecoin runs its own independent prize pool. Enter with USDm, USDC or USDT and you compete in that token's pool, paid out in that same token. No shared round, no "first entrant sets the token" — pick whichever you hold.
• It resets every round — Daily Ranked at midnight UTC, Wave Streak at the top of each hour. Each token's pool resets on its own.

If nobody scores in a pool by the time it resolves, entrants can reclaim their entry — no prize is stranded.

Extra lives

In any paid run (Daily Ranked, Wave Streak, 1v1) a +LIFE · $0.02 button sits at the top-centre of the screen while you're flying. Tap it to buy one more life on the spot — it's added instantly once the payment confirms. You can buy up to 2 extra lives per run. It's not available in Free Flight (no stakes there). Use it to protect a high score or a match you're winning.

Prizes & payouts

1v1 Arena: both entries form the pot; the winner takes it minus a small rake (e.g. a $0.20 entry each → $0.34 to the winner). It's paid to your wallet automatically the moment the match settles on-chain. If it ever doesn't arrive, open Profile → that match → Settle payout to trigger it yourself.

Daily Ranked: the top 3 by score split the pool when the day resolves at midnight UTC. Note: the all-time leaderboard is read live from the chain, which stores name + score + wave (not hull), so the Hull column is blank on the All-Time tab — use the By Hull tab to compare ships.

How earnings work

Entry fee → shared prize pool → automatic payout by the smart contract. Daily Ranked splits 80% among the top 3 by score at midnight UTC. Wave Streak pays pilots who survive past Drift Wave 5, split by waves reached. No human discretion — the contract settles everything onchain.

Zero-Action Claims: Because the game is fully governed by the smart contract on Celo, payouts are automatic. Winning balances (USDC, USDT, or USDm) are pushed directly to the winning pilot's wallet address immediately upon match resolution (for 1v1 Arena) or at midnight UTC (for Daily Ranked). No manual "Claim" action is needed.

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