Lobshot · Press kit
Take turns. Crank to set the angle, hold A to charge, and let go to lob a shell over the hills. Then pass the Playdate to your friend.
Six fighters, each with a special. Five arenas, each with its own music. Every shell digs a crater, and the wind never shows you a number: read the windsock.
23 seconds · 1920×1080, 30 fps · aim, lob, the fighters, the arenas and three specials · cut before Neko joined as the sixth fighter; see Neko’s reveal below · trailer.mp4
20.5 seconds · 1920×1080, 30 fps · the sixth fighter and the panic button · neko-new-challenger.mp4
Lobshot is a pass-and-play artillery duel for Playdate. Two players share one device and take turns: crank to aim, hold A to charge, let go to lob, then pass the Playdate. Six fighters, five arenas, and every shell digs a crater.
Lobshot is an artillery duel for two players and one Playdate. You take turns, and each turn lasts 30 seconds. Crank to set the angle, hold A to charge the power, and let go to lob a shell across the map. Then hand the Playdate to your friend.
The crank keeps working after you fire. Turn it while the shell is in the air to add spin and curve the shot. The wind bends it too, but the game never shows you a number: you read it from the windsock next to the minimap. A small marker under the power meter shows how hard you threw last time, so you can adjust from there.
Every blast digs a crater, so the ground changes as the match goes on, and a fighter who drops off the map is out. Supply crates parachute in every two turns. Walk into one or shoot it to collect an item: a double shot, a shell that splits in three, a warp to wherever your shell lands, or 30 HP of healing. You can carry three.
There are six fighters, and each has a special that charges as you deal and take damage. Bolt’s thunder shot ignores the wind. Fenn’s shell bounces twice. Moss grows a leafy bridge, Pip fires a laser in a dead straight line, Dune drills through the ground, and Neko’s panic button drops three bombs from the sky. Pick one of five arenas, from floating sky isles to a low crystal cave. After a match, press A for a rematch on a fresh layout.
Crates parachute in every two turns. Walk into one or blast it to collect a random item. You can carry three.
Five clips are cut from the trailer and rebuilt at the Playdate’s native 400×240; the panic button is a direct capture. All are shown at 2× in the screen’s own grey tones.
BoltStorm in a scarfThunder shotIgnores wind. Huge crater and blast.
FennThe tricky foxFox bounceThe shell bounces twice before it explodes.
MossSprout of the groveVine bridgeGrows a new leafy platform where it lands.
PipBeep-boop gunnerLaser beamDead straight. No gravity, no wind.
DuneThe sand diggerDrill shotBurrows into the ground, then blows up.
NekoThe lucky catPanic buttonMarks a spot. Three bombs rain down on it.The special charges as you deal and take damage. Portraits are the fighter select screen at 1×, in fighters/.
Every arena has its own music track. On the arena screen, Up rolls a new layout.
All 8 screenshots are in the press kit as screenshots/1x (native 400×240, pure black and white, exactly as the device draws them) and screenshots/4x (1600×960 in the Playdate screen’s grey tones).
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Pixel art is 1× at heart. Scale it by whole numbers only (2×, 3×, 4×) with nearest-neighbour sampling, so every pixel stays square.