The Incident is a game about dodging and climbing falling stuff. Most of the falling stuff is bad. But it is also a game of rising stuff. Most of the rising stuff is good.

The stuff that rises does so by being tethered to a balloon. We call these power-up balloons. We do this despite the fact that some of them are actually power-downs. Shrug.

Here is an example of one such power-up balloon: the coin.

Collecting 10 coins will give you an extra life. Note that the balloons won’t appear quite as frequently as this in the game.