Grade: C-
Play on a one-button retro arcade game.
I took a little break tonight to play Pocket Square. This is a game of 12 games, which all have one-button control. It’s built as an atari emulator, and it does that well. There’s simply a green screen with some squares that move around.
So what are these ten games?
- First, there’s Breakout, which was the traditional version break the bricks without dropping the ball atari classic.
- Next was baseball, but really this was simply swinging at a ball going varying speeds.
- In Golf, you adjust the swing power to hit a hole of varying distances.
- In Mini Golf, you do the same thing, but for putting.
- Next was Pong, and the AI is easy to trick with a simple juke.
- After that, there was Basketball which was more like free throw practice.
- Next, there’s four different platformers in a variety of styles. (Hurdle Jump, Cave jump, Flappy, Platformer)
- Next to last was Frisbee, which involved catching a square flying at varying heights.
- And finally, there was Shooter – which was just a move and shoot thing.
Pocket Square felt like a starter project for a dev that was learning unity coding more than a game you would publish that you’d want others to play. However, the amount of creativity/variety they could implement within their self-imposed dev constraints was impressive.
On to the next game!
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