Spiral Mode

Spiral mode builds a spiral tunnel out of individual boxes and throws a ball into its mouth. After the throw nothing pushes or steers the ball. It travels on its own momentum, knocks the boxes around, and slows down until it runs out of speed. The boxes are real physics objects with their own mass, so the tunnel bends and scatters as the ball passes.

The mode is a sequence of runs. Each run throws the ball harder than the last, so it gets deeper into the spiral. On the default ladder there are four runs, and the fourth is thrown hard enough to reach the centre, which triggers a victory blast. A run ends when the ball has used up its speed, reaches the centre, leaves the screen, or hits the Interval time limit. Then the next run starts, and after the last run the sequence starts again from run 1.

In the Studio preview you can press B on the keyboard to throw the ball.

Space Spiral Settings needs Creator. The Round Sequence Planner inside it (where you edit the runs) needs Pro. The run sequence itself is always on: without the planner unlocked, the mode still plays the default four-run ladder, you just cannot edit it.

Basics, the first item on the Studio rail, shows a short list of the settings that change the video the most, under Mode settings. Engine on the rail shows every control the mode has, in its own collapsible sections, and the mode's own sounds are in the Audio section. Both edit the same settings, so a change in one shows up in the other.

Where the ball starts.

The shape of the tunnel. Changing these rebuilds the spiral.

How the boxes look. Colouring the boxes along the spiral (Rainbow or Gradient Flux) is what makes the tunnel read as depth rather than a flat pattern.

Mass, bounce and the throw. The ratio of Ball Mass to Box Mass decides how the run feels: a heavy ball against light boxes ploughs through and scatters the tunnel, while a light ball against heavy boxes rides along the tunnel wall.

Box Mass, Ball Bounce and Box Bounce apply to every run: changing one here updates all runs of the sequence. Throw Power sets Run 1's throw and scales the later runs by the same amount, so each run still throws harder than the last. With the Round Sequence Planner (Pro) you can then fine-tune a single run; the latest change always wins.

Three sound pickers. Each lists the built-in effects plus sounds you have uploaded.

Shows which run is on screen, for example "Run 2 / 4". Every run starts the same way, so without the label viewers cannot tell the fourth attempt from the first. The switch in the group header turns it on or off. The label text is each run's Label in the planner.

The planner is the list of runs, and it is always on in this mode (the "Always On" badge). The ball is thrown into the spiral and then left alone. Each run throws it harder, so it carries further before it runs out of momentum. Runs play in order and loop.

Start from the defaults and change one thing at a time. The default ladder is measured so the last run reaches the centre.

What to check when the spiral does not behave as expected.