Arcade

Scrolling shooter: Dragonfly Patrol.

Fly a dragonfly up the garden and fire seeds at waves of gnats, moths, beetles and wasps, with a garden boss every fourth stage.

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Enable JavaScript to play. Your game saves stay in this browser.How to playArrow keys or W/A/S/D fly, Space fires, P pauses. On a touchscreen, drag anywhere on the garden: the dragonfly follows your finger and fires while you hold.

Each stage sends pests along their own flight routes. Moths and beetles shoot spores; wasps hesitate, then dive at you.

Pollen (P) widens your shot up to three seeds, nectar (N) speeds up firing for ten seconds, and a dew bubble (D) absorbs one hit. Golden pests always carry pollen.

Every fourth stage a boss arrives — Thornback Beetle, Hornet Queen and Shellback Snail — and fights harder once it is half beaten. A hit costs one of three lives and a level of pollen; after the twelfth stage the garden repeats faster.

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How to play

Goal. Fly the dragonfly as far up the garden as you can, clearing waves of pests and a boss every fourth stage.

Flying and firing

Arrow keys or W/A/S/D fly in any direction across the lower garden; Space fires seeds.
On a touchscreen, drag anywhere: the dragonfly follows your finger's movement, so your finger never covers it, and fires while you hold.

Pests and power-ups

Gnats weave, moths swoop and shoot spores, beetles settle into a row and fire downwards, and wasps hesitate before diving at you.
Pollen (P) widens the shot from one seed to two and then three. Nectar (N) speeds up firing for ten seconds, and dew (D) gives a bubble that absorbs one hit. Golden pests always carry pollen.

Bosses and lives

Thornback Beetle, Hornet Queen and Shellback Snail guard stages 4, 8 and 12, and fire harder once half beaten.
A hit costs one of three lives and one level of pollen. After stage 12 the garden repeats, with faster pests and more spores.