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Hexapuss Cosmic Gate

Game Design Document

Title: Hexapuss Cosmic Gate
Spelling: Hexapuss (two s)
Status: Concept / pitch (2026-09-01)
Name lock: Official dripping HEXAPUSS wordmark above a cinema marquee. Marquee reads COSMIC GATE only. HEXAPUSS is never on the board. No fake HEXAPUSS typeface.

Concept

You play Hexapuss Cosmic Gate: not Hexapuss the VR pinball. Portrait 2D, one thumb. Three colored energy orbs (orange, green, purple) orbit above a dark concert stage and mosh pit. A faint center-gate reticle marks the slam window. As the three cluster they telegraph: glow, pull, connecting lines: then TAP to SLAM. A clean slam is huge: blinding white flash, the orbs fuse into a lingering white-hot ball, tentacles reach farther through the rip, a score popup punches, the gate depth meter fills. Hexapuss (gigantic black cat head, six tentacles) grows more visible behind the light as the gate deepens. After a beat the white ball splits back into three. Miss the window and the balls kick apart, the gate shrinks. Too many misses and the gate collapses. Score is clean slams / gate depth. First run is clean, no ads.

Loop

• Readable slam window. Faint center-gate reticle. Orbs telegraph (glow, connecting triangle) as they cluster. Converge holds a real overlap so a clean tap is possible.
• Lingering gate energy. After a slam the three fuse into a white-hot ball for a beat, then split. Not instant reset.
• Huge slam / shrinking miss. White flash, tentacles reach farther, score popup, gate depth meter. Misses kick with a visible scatter and the gate shrinks. Too many misses collapse it.
• Hexapuss behind the rip. Silhouette is clipped to the gate and grows more visible as depth fills: the script payoff.

Score / fail

• Score: clean slams / gate depth.
• Fail: too many misses: the gate collapses.

Ads pattern

Fail-only stubs, no banners. WATCH AD continue then cosmic-void interstitial. First run clean.

• Fail and Hexapuss’s eyes light up: watch a rewarded ad, get one more slam chance. Continue, one per run.
• Skip it or fail again and a cosmic void / white-gate fill plays as the interstitial stub, then you restart.

Script lock

• Ian Kessner & Steve Hinan Hexapuss short film: concert climax; a tricolored energy ball of ORANGE, GREEN and PURPLE light forms above the mosh pit, draws power from the moshers, splits into three solid colored balls that SLAM together creating blinding white light that opens a massive COSMIC GATE; behind the light, Hexapuss (gigantic black cat head with six tentacles) approaches.
• Cats if shown are black with colored tails only. No new lore.
• Not Quest pinball. Not Meteor Attack. Not Mist / Divide / Rift / Latch / Pack.