Game

Hoop Quest started the fair in Broom & Blade, the chore game I built for my family: it felt like a carnival game, so the guild hall grew a booth for each game. You drag a ball up off the rack and flick it at the hoop: thirty balls, two points a basket, and three for a Sky Shot thrown from down low that flies over the backboard. The basket holds still for the first ten balls, then starts to slide from side to side. Three baskets in a row set the ball on fire, eight turn the fire blue, and the callouts climb from NICE! to LEGENDARY!. Pip the guild mouse rides the top of the backboard: he watches the ball, cheers every make, backflips for a swish, waves a pennant on a streak and hides his eyes when you miss. A secret Space Shot, flicked so hard it leaves the top of the screen and still drops in, is worth five and turns Pip into a giant hype man. Every sound is made by the game as you play, with no recordings, and the whole game is one file. Here every round is free.