LOW PRESSURE

DISPATCH NOTES

ONE NIGHT.
SIX HOURS OF RAIN.

You drive a courier car from midnight to dawn. Drops appear ahead as lime beacons in one lane: be in that lane when you reach them. The sooner you arrive, the more they pay. A night lasts about four and a half minutes and ends at dawn, or when your hull runs out, or when the interceptor pins you.

• Drive: left and right arrows or A and D change lane, one press per lane. Hold up or W to boost, down or S to brake. On touch, swipe or use ◀ ▶, and hold BOOST or BRAKE. On a controller, left stick or D-pad for lanes, A or RT to boost, B or LT to brake.
• Heat: boosting, near misses and running red lights fill the five-segment meter. Coasting drains it slowly; braking drains it faster. At full heat the music turns and an interceptor comes up behind you.
• Pursuit: drops pay double and every bar of the chase scores. The interceptor follows your lane and closes whenever you slow down. If it rides your bumper for two seconds, you are busted. Boost to open the gap.
• Losing it: thread three escapes in a row: the lane under a closing barrier, an underpass, the gap between two trucks (cyan chevrons mark the lane), or a red light. Missing one resets the count.
• Hazards by hour: traffic from 00:00, then parked cars, wet patches that slide you a lane, roadworks, trucks, and fog at 05:00.
• Hull: three hits and the car is done. Each hit gives a short grace period.
• Start / continue: Enter, Space, or A. Pause with Escape or Start. Leaving the game pauses it.

Music: Wet Asphalt, Sodium Lights and Interceptor, written for this game. Sound is optional. Scores are public and client-reported. No account needed.