Trace Circuit Runner

A spark racing a live circuit board, and one tap between you and the short. Trace is a one-touch arcade runner set on a scrolling PCB. The spark rides one of two parallel copper rails while the board streams past and steadily accelerates. Your only verb is a tap — it flips the spark to the other rail, a gravity-swap you'll time to the millisecond. The board is out to fry you. Axial resistors and electrolytic capacitors stand on the rails; glistening red solder blobs short you on contact; and the copper itself breaks in ragged gaps you have to be on the OTHER rail to clear. Five named districts arrive with distance, each with its own component mix. Arc gates jump their lethal arc between the rails on a readable rhythm — a shimmer telegraphs every jump. Magnet coils never kill you, but inside their field your flips land slow. Charge is the reward for greed. Mint charge pips sit on the rails; collect them without a miss and your combo multiplier climbs, so a fast, precise line banks charge far quicker than a cautious one. The further you push, the faster the board scrolls — distance is the whole score. Once a day the shop posts a DAILY CIRCUIT. The board is seeded from the calendar date — every shift that day rides the SAME layout — and one of six rotating modifiers reshapes the rules: pips that pay extra, magnet seasons, arc festivals, brittle copper, surge storms, quiet shifts. Three shifts a day, no more. Distance earns a bronze, silver or gold SHIFT MEDAL, and medals tally forever. And the shop floor runs on WORK ORDERS. Three contracts on offer; sign exactly one. An order is a multi-run quota — bank pips, walk arc gates, haul distance, ride daily shifts — and when it fills it pays a charge purse straight into your career. Tear one up and the progress is forfeit: signing is a commitment. Between runs, visit the SPARK BENCH. Career clearance ranks free spark chips — socket one to reshape the next run. Fourteen schematics wait to be etched by feats, each unlocking a new hue for your spark. Earned only. Never sold. • One touch — tap anywhere to flip the spark to the other rail • Daily circuit: one seeded board a day, six rotating modifiers, three shifts • Bronze, silver and gold shift medals tally on your service record • Work orders: sign a contract, fill its quota across runs, bank the purse • Five board districts, each with its own component mix and look • Arc gates jump rails on a readable rhythm — watch the shimmer • Socket one of nine spark chips to reshape a run • Etch fourteen schematics with feats to unlock spark hues • Best distance, clearance rank and streaks saved on device • Reduce-motion toggle · fully offline, no account, nothing collected Flip the rail. Ride the trace.