Current: The Daily Charge

Somewhere under the floor there is a machine, and every morning it is wired a little differently. Current gives you one run at today's machine, and every machine is numbered, so the one you played is the one everybody else played that date. You get one attempt: start a stage and it counts. Lose, leave or close the app mid-stage, and the charge you reached is what goes into the day's total. Three stages, in order, scored as a single number: the charge you delivered. DRIFTLINE — hold to climb, release to fall, take the teal stars and stay away from the coral ones. SWITCHBACK — two rails, tap to cross, collect the pulses and miss what is falling. DROPSTACK — land five blocks to clear the tower, and the next one comes faster. The run is built from the calendar date, so players on the same dated machine get the same run. Anyone who beats you on the same date beat the machine you played, not an easier one. Tomorrow the whole thing is rebuilt. When the day's run is gone, it is gone. You can practise the three stages as long as you like — practice never counts towards the daily. • One seeded run a day, identical for every player on that date, scored as a single charge total, with a numbered machine so you and everyone else are talking about the same one • Three stages that ask for three different kinds of touch: hold, tap, and time • Optional Game Center leaderboards for the day's charge, lifetime charge and each stage's best • A streak that counts the days you finished, a lifetime charge total, and a result card you can send to anybody • Every line of art drawn by the app as it runs, every sound made on your phone as it plays • No adverts. No purchases. Core gameplay works offline; Game Center features require a connection.