Stillbolt

Bolts ricochet around a press bed in five fluorescent inks. You never aim, you never throw anything, and nothing falls from the top. You have exactly one verb. Tap a bolt and it stops dead. An arrested bolt becomes a STUD — a hard bumper the rest of the bed bounces off. And every one of those ricochets does two things at the same time: • the bolt that bounced BANKS A PIP, so the next collector cup it lands in pays (1 + pips) times its base value • the stud TAKES CHARGE, and the ring around it fills green, then yellow, then orange Fill that ring and the stud OVERLOADS. That costs a life, and you only get three. So every stud is a score amplifier with a fuse. Tap it a second time and it flies off along the summed shove of everything that ever hit it, paying out coins and a discharge bonus — but the amplifier goes with it, and the bed cools back down. Hold your studs too long and you blow up. Cash them out too early and you never build a real multiplier. That single decision, made three or four times at once across the board, is the game. WHAT ELSE IS ON THE BED • Collector cups drift, run out of time and relocate — a cup you're setting up for might not be there when the bolt finally arrives • Soot bolts dump nearly triple charge into a stud and FOUL any cup they enter, killing your combo • Drifting tokens are collected by any loose bolt: SLOW PRESS, DOUBLE INK, GROUNDED (dumps every stud back to zero) and WIDE CUP • Every ten cups triggers a SURGE — more bolts, another cup, and 1.5x scoring BUILD YOUR PRESS Coins from cashed-out studs buy permanent upgrades in the Supply Room: a higher overload ceiling, more studs pinned at once, wider cups, a deeper bank, and a bigger payout. Three difficulty settings actually change the simulation — bolt count, speed, soot cadence, cup lifetime and how much charge a stud tolerates. PRINTED, NOT RENDERED Stillbolt looks like a risograph poster: warm newsprint, five saturated spot inks, and no black outlines anywhere. The depth comes from deliberate misregistration — every shape is printed twice, an offset ghost plate under the real one, exactly the way a two-drum duplicator slips. Paper grain, halftone dot screens, printer's corner ticks. The menu is an abacus rack of beads on rails; the other screens are perforated postage stamps. COMPLETELY OFFLINE No ads. No analytics. No crash reporting. No accounts. No internet permission at all — the app literally cannot talk to a network. Your best score, coins and upgrades live in one file on your device and nowhere else. Plays on a plane, plays in a tunnel, plays forever. Built in Kotlin and Jetpack Compose with no game engine: every bolt, cup and ink plate is drawn from primitives, and the whole simulation is one plain Kotlin class covered by 38 unit tests.