Highwire Hero

HOW TO PLAY

1. You're a performer on a tightrope strung across a night circus. Hold the left and right arrows (or gamepad d-pad) to walk along the wire — you're clamped to its length, so you can't walk off the ends. Every 30px you cover on foot banks a small distance bonus.
2. Flaming hoops roll in from the right edge and sit on the wire. Press Space (or gamepad A) to jump — sailing over the top is safe and scores a clear, but the real artistry is threading the hoop's glowing centre on the way up: a CLEAN trick worth 15 points times your chain multiplier. Chained cleans build the multiplier up to ×5; a hit, or a hoop that slips past unthreaded, breaks the chain. Jumps are forgiving thanks to a few frames of coyote time and input buffering.
3. It's not just hoops out there. Night birds swoop in at head height — hold ArrowDown (or S) to duck under them, or clear one near the very top of your jump arc. Low balance bars hang above the wire: ducking is the only practical way through. Wind gusts flash warning streaks before shoving you sideways — brace or walk against them. Strings of stars hang at walking and jumping heights and pay out multiplied by your chain.
4. A hit costs one of three lives and grants a brief invulnerability window — the performer flashes while you recover. Lose all three lives and the run ends in the net. Survive the full mode timer to take a bow and win.
5. Scroll speed ramps up every ten seconds with a milestone stinger, and spawn cadence tightens as the run goes on, so the final stretch is always the hottest. Pick Matinee for a gentle warm-up, Grand Show for the standard act, or Daredevil for faster hoops, the full hazard mix and a stronger wind. Your per-mode personal best is saved between sessions.

Controls

• Walk left along the wireArrowLeft / A · D-pad / left stick
• Walk right along the wireArrowRight / D · D-pad / left stick
• Jump — thread a hoop's centre for a CLEAN trickSpace / Enter / ArrowUp · Gamepad A · Tap the wire
• Duck / slide under birds and low barsArrowDown / S · D-pad down / left stick down
• PauseEscape / KeyP · Gamepad Start

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