Hit Master Rush

Start screen and tutorial

A title card, then four tutorial cards

The title screen shows the stacked logo HIT MASTERS RUSH above a single blue PLAY button, and it carries no score, clock or counter of any kind. Pressing PLAY does not drop you into a stage: it opens a TUTORIAL screen whose four cards pair one pose of the character with one instruction.

The four cards, word for word

The cards read PRESS LEFT MOUSE BUTTON TO SHOOT, PRESS W TO JUMP, PRESS S TO SLIDING and PRESS SPACEBAR KEY TO USE SLOWMOTION, with a mouse icon, W, S and Spacebar printed under them. Those same four lines exist inside the build as its own text objects, so the tutorial is the control list rather than a hint that scrolls past.

The build also carries a touch set for a mobile frame: TOUCH SCREEN TO SHOOT, TOUCH THE BUTTON TO JUMP, TOUCH THE BUTTON TO SLIDING and TOUCH THE BUTTON TO SLOWMOTION.

The labels around a stage

Score in metres, health at 20

Five fixed labels sit around a stage: SCORE and HIGHSCORE while you play, RESULT once the stage ends, and SHOP plus OPTION on the menu side. The score is drawn as a distance, because the build appends the letter M to the running total and feeds that total from a variable named mileage, which is reset to 0 for a run.

Twenty points of health

A run is tracked with a health bar rather than a hit count. The build initialises hpMax to 20 and hp to 0, then tweens the bar from that pair as damage lands. Gold starts at 0 as well, and it is spent in two separate shops: L_ShopChar for characters and L_ShopGold for coin packs.

The stage art adds eleven design layouts, L_Design together with L_Design1 through L_Design10, and three enemy sprite sheets named enemysheet1, enemysheet2 and enemysheet3 beside a single player sheet.

Slow-motion, platforms and firing rate

What one stage is assembled from

Shooting is drawn in three angles: the build holds shoot_up, shoot_mid and shoot_down animation sets, and the events that fire them run from ShootUp1 through ShootDown3. Slow-motion is a resource rather than a free switch, with its own bar event named Game Set Bar Slowmotion and a SlowmotionActived flag in the global set.

Platforms are generated, not fixed

The ground is built while the stage runs. CreatePlatform and CreatePlatformInit place new platforms, and xLastPlatform and yLastPlatform remember where the previous piece ended so the next one connects to it.

Enemies fire bullets of their own, and turrets are a separate object with their own hit, shoot and explode sounds. The repeat rate is short: one branch of the build sets the shooting delay to 0.15, another to 0.12, and the Shoot animation is given a duration of 0.4.

Hit Masters Rush FAQ

Controls, health and the score readout

These answers stay with what the tutorial cards state and what the build initialises: four named controls, a 20-point health bar, and a score written as a distance.