MAGNET
A downloadable playdate game
🧲 You don't control the ball.
MAGNET is an arcade game about controlling a force, not a character.
Wind a magnetic field with the crank. Crank forward and the magnet pulls. Crank back through zero and it pushes.
Then comes the rule that makes everything click:
Build up speed. Read the trajectory. Then cut the field or flip it at exactly the right moment to throw the ball through the gate.
⚡ WIND. CONTROL. RELEASE.
🔥 The deeper you go, the harder it gets.
Every new band introduces another way to manipulate your trajectory. The physics stay simple. The situations don't.
Every gate is meant to be solved.
Every shipped gate has been proven playable through simulation — and tested to make sure it cannot simply be beaten by holding the crank in one direction.
🎮 THREE WAYS TO PLAY
No clock. No lives. Retry any gate as often as you like. A run ends when you decide to stop. The only measure is how deep you got.
Ten gates. The same ten gates for everyone. Come back every day and see how far you can push your run.
A physics sandbox with six arrangements. Experiment freely and discover what the magnetic system can really do.
WORLD BOARD
The World Board shows a live attrition curve: where players stop, how deep the community gets, and where you stand.
✦ FEATURES
🟡 PLAYDATE
MAGNET requires a Playdate console or the Playdate Simulator included with the Playdate SDK.
Unzip the download, then send the .pdx file to your Playdate.
Or transfer it using the Playdate USB data disk.
The World Board is optional. MAGNET is fully playable offline.
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