VELTRAIL 1.0 · The game
VELTRAIL is a team game for iPhone and iPad: three couriers against three. You lay rails just by moving, send pulses of energy from your generator to the receiver — and cut the rival route before their pulses get through.
01 / The loop
There is no build menu. You skate, the rail follows, and the network you draw decides who scores. Six ideas are all you need.
Laying is on from the start, so wherever your courier skates, a rail appears behind it. New rail costs resource — 1 per metre from a reserve of 100 that refills while you’re not spending. A rail you stop riding over fades after 30 seconds.
Each team has its own generator. The arena has three receivers, and one of them is active each round. When your rails link the two, the generator sends a pulse every 3 seconds. It rides the shortest powered path by itself at 8 m/s — and every pulse that arrives is a point.
Your pulse tool breaks enemy rails up to 6 m away. A pulse on a broken rail drops out as a spark. Rails of different teams never join, even where they cross — to get through, you cut.
Anyone can pick up a spark — just touch it. Stay inside the active receiver’s ring for 0.4 s to deliver it. Deliver the other team’s spark and it is an interception: the point is yours.
Rails of both teams within 1.6 m of the active receiver can’t be broken. Nobody wins by camping at the door — the fight happens on the approach.
Bring a powered rail to a bridge terminal and the bridge opens — for everyone, rivals included. If the power is lost, it warns for 3 seconds, then closes.
02 / The match
Two teams of three couriers. The team with more points after three rounds wins. Between rounds the field resets: pulses and sparks in transit vanish, rails and bridges disappear, the score stays — and the next receiver lights up. The order of receivers is shown before the match.
A tie goes to overtime on the central receiver: up to 20 seconds, and the first delivery wins. Simultaneous deliveries — or none — make it a draw.
Match timeline: 3-second countdown, then three rounds of 45 seconds with 4-second breaks; overtime of up to 20 seconds only after a tie.
Team colour always comes with a shape, so the sides stay readable without relying on colour alone.
03 / Modules
Before the match you choose one of three modules. All three are available from the start. A module sets your role, but everyone can build, repair and intercept — speed, resource and power are the same for all.
Escort and intercept
A second dash charge. Each dash covers about 3 m; charges recover one at a time.
Route defence
Shields one of your rail segments from breaking — every cut in that window bounces off.
Quick repair
Restores a recently broken section of your network for a few seconds. Ride over it with laying on and it becomes a normal rail again.
These rules reflect the first balance pass for version 1.0 and may change in a later update.
04 / Controls
VELTRAIL 1.0 is played with touch, in landscape. The camera looks down at a fixed angle and never rotates, so north is always north.
05 / Ways to play
On this device
An offline 3 vs 3: you and five bots — two on your team, three against you. No connection needed. Pick the arena, your side and the bot difficulty.
Harder bots only think faster. They never get more speed, resource or power than you.
Online
Quick match finds players for you. Or create a room, share its code with friends, and the host starts when everyone is ready. Empty slots can be filled by bots, and bots are always labelled BOT — they are never passed off as people.
7 short steps, one idea each:
6 short solo drills built on the real game systems:
After a match, “Watch the key moment” shows the moment that decided it — an interception and delivery, a rescued spark, a last-second or overtime delivery. It appears only when the match had such a moment.
Cosmetic items unlock as you level up by playing; some can be unlocked earlier by watching a rewarded ad. Appearance never changes speed, size or how visible your signals are.
06 / Arenas
Each arena has its own routes, levels and bridges. The receiver order is fixed per arena and shown before the match.
An open arena: central receiver, two flank routes and a bridge.
Ponds, coil towers and the bridge shortcut.
iPhone 17 Pro Max · development build, 3 Oct 2026 · bots
Levels and ramps: routes cross over each other without connecting.
No bridges here — rails on an upper deck are out of reach from the ground.
Version 1.0 code, rendered on a Mac · touch interface · bots
Two bridges and an always-open safe route.
Quays over the cloud sea; the bridges are faster, the ring is safer.
iPhone 17 Pro Max · development build, 3 Oct 2026 · bots
07 / Straight answers
See the release status for every platform, or read the full rules of the team match.