Documentation

Everything about how Thalorite plays, from the first time you tilt the phone to the last Morgon base. The game teaches the basics as you play, and HOW TO PLAY on the title screen sums them up. These pages go further, with the numbers.

It’s the 26th century, and humanity is at war with the alien Morgons. Long ago the Thalorans spread out among the stars and then vanished, leaving their artifacts behind, and that technology runs on one mineral: Thalorite. It lies in the asteroid fields, and it’s the only thing the war is about.

You fly a lone ship in a contested star system. Break rocks for Thalorite, get it home to the human stations, spend it on repairs and upgrades, defend the stations from Morgon raids, and fly the trench run to destroy every Morgon base.

• Getting started The title screen, your first minutes, saving, and how a run ends.
• Controls Tilt to steer, hold to fire, slide the throttle, and the buttons and settings.
• The HUD The readouts, the damage control line, the markers, collision warnings and the message log.
• Your ship Flight, energy, shields, hull, guns, the tracking computer and damage to the ship's components.
• Mining and Thalorite Asteroid fields, breaking rocks, chain reactions, collecting Thalorite, the cargo hold and the Thaloran artifacts.
• The Morgons Where the Morgons come from, how they find you, how they fight, and how they take the system.
• Stations Docking, delivering Thalorite, repairs, the four kinds of shipyard and every upgrade.
• The sector map and hyperwarp The star system, the long range sector map, flying on impulse and aiming a hyperwarp jump.
• Morgon bases and the trench run The Morgon bases, their trenches and turrets, their defenders, and the shot that destroys them.
• Ratings and achievements How a run is rated, the ranks, your best run, the leaderboards and the achievements.