Newtonian docking on the wrist.
SpaceDock is an Apple Watch game: a 3D docking simulator flown with the Digital Crown and the touchscreen. There is no iPhone app — it runs on the watch alone.
Two controls. The Digital Crown is the throttle: turn it forward for main engine ahead, back for reverse. It is a lever, not a spring — it stays where you leave it, so remember to bring it back to zero. Touch anywhere on the screen to fire the lateral thrusters; the direction you touch relative to the middle of the screen is the direction you slide. Your nose is always pointed down the docking axis for you, so there is no rotation to fly.
Speed is measured relative to the docking collar, not to the stars. The collar is mounted on the rim of a turning ring, so it is orbiting the axis you are flying down. A ship hanging perfectly still in space is still sliding sideways across a collar that is sweeping past it. You have to match the collar's motion, not stop dead.
Four things are judged separately at the moment you touch: how close to the centre of the collar you are, how fast you are closing, how fast you are sliding across the collar face, and the angle you arrived from. Sideways speed is always the tightest limit — a gentle head-on bump survives what a slide across the latches will not.
Holding station against a turning collar costs thrust every second of the approach, so the longer you sit in the corridor lining up, the more you spend. Getting roughly lined up early and coasting in is cheaper than creeping the whole way.
Finish the run — the result card that appears after a dock or a crash has a MENU button. There is deliberately no in-flight exit gesture, because holding a steady thrust is exactly what your thumb is doing while you fly. To leave mid-run, press the Digital Crown to go back to the watch face.
Your best level and best score are saved on the watch. CONTINUE on the menu picks up at your best level.
The app collects no data. Read the full privacy policy.
SpaceDock is published by druidori s.r.o.
Email info@druidori.com — happy to help.