Bad Friends Bowling: Alpha is live

Play it now

This is the alpha. It’s not polished, it’s not perfect, but it’s the complete intended experience end-to-end, enough to give you a sense of where I’m going and for me to collect feedback.

How to play

• 2 to 4 players on one screen, or solo in practice mode.
• Between frames use the mouse to select a card and which player it will apply to.
• Click the space bar to throw in three steps: lock your angle, then power, then spin

What’s in it

• A full 10-frame game: real scoring, strikes, spares, opens, the 10th-frame bonus rules, a winner at the end.
• 25 cards live: 6 boons, 18 banes, and 1 wild card that doesn’t even know what it is until it’s played.
• A cel-shaded, blacklight-poster look, with every sound (the ball’s roll, pin cracks, a locked Steel Pin’s clang) generated live from real physics instead of sampled.

Bring friends you don’t entirely trust.

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