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Mission LunaTrix Manual

03.10.2025   •   mission lunatrix


Mission LunaTrix

Synopsis

One small ollie for man, one giant kickflip for mankind.

“Captain’s log: stardate…something-or-other. It’s been about 3 days since the lander made a rather high-speed landing into the Moon’s surface. My oxygen supplies are running low, my only possession that survived the crash is my trusty skateboard, and I need to find a way back home. …Now, this might sound crazy—” [END TRANSMISSION]

When you find yourself trapped on the surface of an unfamiliar terrain, there’s only one thing that can bring you back to terra firma…EPIC SKATE TRICKS. Can you jump, grind and shred your way to escape velocity before time runs out? Mission LunaTrix is a radical sports-arcade game featuring innovative 3D terrain, plenty of strategy, and a bumpin’ original soundtrack.

Gameplay Basics

Controls

The d-pad and crank are required to play this game. The D-pad and A and B buttons are used to navigate menus.

Gameplay

Navigate the moon’s surface, in search of opportunities to perform epic skate tricks. There are five types of objects you may encounter in your lunar venture:

Ramp off craters, rack up points, and make your way back home! Or at least, to another moon…

It’s important to keep an eye on your oxygen levels. If they reach zero, you’ll be rather…stranded. You can replenish oxygen by picking up O2 Canisters, or by escaping the current moon. Your O2 gauge will re-fill on every successful escape.

Scoring

Ramping off of craters and performing tricks is key to your escape! When you’re sent into the air, use the crank in tandem with the d-pad to pull off different moves. Advanced ones can score big points!

When you reach a high enough score threshold, you’ll start flashing. This means you’ve got enough radical power charged up to escape the gravitational pull! Hit another crater, and you’ll be launched to the next moon.

Tricks

Combos

When you successfully land from a jump, your combo meter will increase. Hit more jumps to rack up the multiplier and score MASSIVE points! There’s no limit, so go wild! Your final score is displayed at the end.

If you skate around for long enough without hitting another crater, run into a rover, or get too overzealous with your tricks, your meter will reset back to x1.

Modes

Arcade Mode

In Arcade Mode, your goal is to hop from moon to moon, and survive for as long as you can without running out of oxygen. When you complete a level, your oxygen meter is replenished, and you’re sent to a new moon with a different, randomly-generated layout.

For each new moon, you’ll have less and less oxygen, and will require more and more points to be able to move on.

Daily Orbit

In Daily Orbit, you get placed on a single moon — randomly-generated, but the same for everyone each day. Your goal is to rack up as many points as you can before your oxygen runs out.

You only get one shot at the Daily Orbit each day. Give the mode a try and see if you can best your friends (or your enemies)!

On-line Capability

About on-line play

This game connects to Playdate’s on-line leaderboard API, to enable sending and receiving of high scores among players across the globe. To use on-line functionality in this game, make sure your Playdate has an active Wireless connection.

Submitting your scores

The Arcade Mode and Daily Orbit both support global on-line leaderboards.

To submit a new score to a global leaderboard, simply complete a game. When you reach the end results screen, your score will be submitted to the proper leaderboard automatically.

⚠️ Be careful — if you close out of the game without properly ending your run, your score won’t be saved or submitted!

My score didn’t send! What do?

If you obtained a new high score, but it didn’t get sent up to the appropriate leaderboard, there are a few things you can try:

  1. Give it a little time, and see if it sends up automatically.

  2. Try playing another round — it doesn’t need to be yet another new high score, but this might kick the OS’ caching into high gear.

Viewing global scores

You can view global scores using two primary methods:

  1. Visit the Mission LunaTrix game page in your Web browser, at play.date/games/mission-lunatrix. From here, you can view all available scores in the Scoreboards section. You can see top 10 scores in every available board.

  2. Enter the ‘Scoreboards’ menu within the game, accessible from the Title screen. When in this screen, you can use the A button to toggle between the Arcade Mode and Daily Orbit leaderboards. From here, you can see the top scores for the currently-highlighted board, as well as your own score and ranking (if available).

The Daily Orbit leaderboard refreshes automatically at 00:00 midnight GMT, clearing all scores from the past day. When viewing scores in-game, there’s also a handy timer to tell you when the boards will be cleared.

User Icons

In Mission LunaTrix, you have the ability to set a custom user icon, which appears alongside your score in scoreboards.

To set a user icon, press B on the Title screen, and use the crank to preview the options. Press A to choose your favorite! Your icon will be updated on the leaderboards page next time you submit a new high score to the board.

Credits

Changelog

Version 2.0.0

06.28.2025

Version 1.0.0

03.10.2025


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