Modules: Arena
The Arena slot decides the board: its size, its walls, and whether it scrolls or wraps. One chip. Empty means Grid 16. Ingredient: glass pane. All slots
| Chip | What it does | Recipe (shapeless) |
|---|---|---|
| Grid 16 (default) | A 16 by 16 board with a wall border and optional obstacles. | Blank Chip + glass pane |
| Grid 32 | A 32 by 32 board with a wall border and optional obstacles. | Blank Chip + glass pane + glass pane |
| Ring 24 | A 24-wide tube that wraps left to right, with optional pillars. | Blank Chip + glass pane + chain |
| Strip 9 | A 9-wide lane that can scroll new wall gates toward the pawn. | Blank Chip + glass pane + rail |
Grid 16
The house board. A wall runs round the edge.
| Setting | Default | Choices |
|---|---|---|
| Obstacles | None | None, Pillars (a pillar every four cells), Light maze (a few short wall bars placed by the match's seed) |
Grid 32
The same board at four times the area. Light maze places more and longer bars than on Grid 16.
| Setting | Default | Choices |
|---|---|---|
| Obstacles | None | None, Pillars, Light maze |
Ring 24
A board 24 cells wide and 8 tall with a wall along the top and bottom. The left and right edges join: leave one side and you come back on the other. Up to four players start spread round the ring.
| Setting | Default | Choices |
|---|---|---|
| Obstacles | None | None, Pillars (short wall pairs across the middle) |
Strip 9
A lane 9 cells wide with no walls inside; the board's edge is the wall. With scrolling on, the lane moves one row at a time and new rows arrive at the far end: half are open, the rest have a gate of one to three wall cells (never more than three of nine blocked, never two gated rows in a row). A pawn caught by an arriving wall loses a life.
| Setting | Default | Range |
|---|---|---|
| Scroll | None | None, Down, Up |
| Period (ticks per row) | 10 | 4–40 |
| Length | 24 | 16–32 rows |
Odd combinations
- A 32 by 32 maze with a speed-1 cursor is slow, but it plays.
- A scrolling Strip 9 with the Stacker pawn scrolls the stack too.
- A scrolling Strip 9 with the Paddle pawn scrolls the goal lines away — it runs, but it is a joke game.
- A Paddle on Ring 24: the ball wraps left and right, so it only scores at the top and bottom.