Netwhistle

Netwhistle is a penalty shootout cup. You take a kick, then you go in goal, and so on, five each and then sudden death. Win five rounds against five teams to lift the cup; lose one and you are out.

Shooting is three decisions: steer an aim that drifts more as the pressure rises, stop the power bar (too hard and it flies over), then pick a curl that bends the ball late. Keeping is about reading people: where the shooter runs in from, which way the hips turn, and whether he leans back.

• Drifting aim: the reticle wobbles more in later rounds, in sudden death and the longer you wait.
• Power and curl: two timing bars; curl beats a keeper who read your aim but risks the post.
• Run-up tells: approach angle, hip turn and lean back, more often bluffed by better teams, plus stutter steps that punish an early dive.
• Keepers who learn: the AI keeper reads your aim and remembers which side you favour.
• Five-round cup: Brookfield Rovers to Royal Meridian, five kicks each and sudden death.
• Score and best: points for rounds won, goals and saves; your best score is kept.

Code and text written with AI assistance; checked by PN Scripts with automated tests. Every shape is drawn and every sound synthesised by code; there are no AI-generated image or audio files.

Controls

• Shooting: arrow keys / WASD steer the aim, Space / Enter locks it, then stops the power and curl bars
• Keeping: arrow keys pick one of six zones, Space / Enter dives
• Touch / mouse: drag on the goal to aim and release to lock, tap for power and curl, tap a zone of the goal to dive
• P / Esc: pause, M: sound

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