Glasscade

You get one shard of light and one angle. Everything after that happens without you. Pull back on the launcher, watch the aim line count out the first two bounces, and let go. The shard climbs into a column of mirrors, glass and prisms. Mirrors bend it. Glass pays out and shatters. And a prism swallows it whole and spits out two — then four, then eight, until the board is a crossfire of tracers and the score is climbing by itself. You do not steer it. You choose where it starts. HOW IT WORKS • Mirror — a clean bounce. Never breaks, never slows the shard down • Glass — pays 10 × the number of shards currently alive, then shatters. The multiplier IS the drama: eight shards in the air means every pane is worth eight times more • Prism — eats one shard, releases two at a spread angle. One use only, which is why the first shot at a fresh board is the loudest • Motes of charge spill out of…