zeroemdashes: Fly

There are 9,999 em dashes standing between you and zero. They are coming from the right. You are a glowing dot. Tap to rise, release to fall. Navigate through the gaps. Each one you dodge counts down. Each one you hit adds a penalty, permanently, to your total. No resets. No second chances. Your count is your score, and it follows you forever. That is the game. --- 20 hand-crafted levels. Each one harder than the last. The columns get tighter. The gaps get narrower. The em dashes accelerate. By level 20, you will understand why they needed to be eliminated. A perfect run through all 20 levels reaches exactly zero. This is called zeroemdashes. It has a Hall of Fame. The bar is high. --- HOW IT WORKS Tap the screen to make your dot rise. Release to fall. Navigate through columns of approaching em dashes. Each column you fly through cleanly reduces your count. Each column you hit does not reduce it. That damage stays in your total, permanently. There are no hearts. There are no lives. You do not die from hitting em dashes. Fly off the screen, too high or too low, and the level ends. Retry from the same level, or go back and replay an earlier one. Your permanent count is the sum of your best run on every level. You cannot reset it. The global leaderboard ranks everyone by their count, lowest first. If you want to climb, you have to play better. --- THE LEADERBOARD The global leaderboard ranks players by count. Lower is better. Closer to zero is better. The player at rank one has dodged more em dashes than anyone else on the planet without taking unnecessary damage. The leaderboard syncs when you are online. The game works fully offline. Your progress is never lost. --- THE HALL OF FAME Reaching exactly zero requires a perfect run through all 20 levels across your entire career. Not a single avoidable hit. Total count: 0. If you reach it, your name goes into the Hall of Fame. It stays there. --- YOUR IDENTITY You play under your Google Play Games display name. One name. One permanent count. One Hall of Fame. The same identity carries across every game in the zeroemdashes series. --- WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE Dark background. Gold glyphs. Space Mono font. No tutorial popups. No energy bars. No timers counted in coins. One number on screen: your count. Watching it fall is the point. --- WHY EM DASHES They are the most overused piece of punctuation in the English language. They show up everywhere they do not belong. This game exists to address that. zeroemdashes is a series. FLY is the first entry. More games, same villain, different mechanics. Same goal: eliminate every last one of them. --- Free to play. No ads. No in-app purchases. Just you, a dot, and 9,999 things that need to be avoided. Your count starts at 9,999 the moment you begin. The only direction it should go is down.