Rushed

About the game

Rushed is a fast boss-rush game written by ZyluxXD for Sprig, the open-source game console made by Hack Club that you program in JavaScript. You are a small astronaut in a starry arena, and each round throws three bosses at you, one after another, with a countdown ticking in the corner.

The shooting is easy: press I, K or L and your shot flies toward the boss by itself, so you never have to line it up. The hard part is staying alive. The first boss wanders around and shoots straight at you. The second one chases you and fires in four directions at once. The third one chases too and adds diagonal shots, and in later rounds both of the later bosses also aim at you. Touching a boss hurts, being hit gives you a moment of safety, and you win back one point of health after each boss you beat.

Every round is harder than the last: the bosses have more health, move and shoot faster, and you get a little less time for each fight. If you clear the fifth round, a bonus final boss is waiting for you, with a one-minute timer and a long health bar. You lose when your health reaches zero or when the clock does, and the game offers a quick retry with a short, cheeky message.

Playing it here

Click Play, then press J on the title screen to start. The arena is shown on the Sprig's own screen scaled up so the pixels stay sharp, with your health, the boss's health and the time at the top. There are short sound effects for shots, hits and boss arrivals. The game keeps no save, so closing the page starts you at the first round again.

On a phone or tablet, two groups of buttons appear under the screen, like the eight buttons of the console. On a computer, use the keyboard; the arrow keys work like W, A, S, D.

Controls

Tips

Keep moving. Standing still lets the aimed shots find you. Sidestep and fire in between.

Diagonals are not safe. The third boss shoots on the diagonals as well as straight, so the corners next to it are not hiding places.

Up close is fine. If you are right next to the boss, your shot hits at once.

Watch the clock, not just the health bar. A slow, careful fight can lose to the timer.

FAQ

Is this an official Sprig game? It comes from the public Sprig game gallery, where anyone can send in a game. This one was sent in by its author, ZyluxXD, and it runs here unchanged.

What is a Sprig? A small console with a 160×128 screen and eight buttons, made by Hack Club to teach programming by making games. Its games are plain JavaScript programs, and the engine that runs them is open source.

Does it save my progress? No. A full run is short, and every run starts again from the first round.