Hinge Alley

The boardwalk alley roller, folded into your phone. Stand it up like a laptop: the ramp and a brass plate of hexagon rings stand on the top half, and you roll the ball from the half on the table. It hops the fold and climbs the ramp. Nine balls. Chase the 100s.

Designed for iPhone Duo

Coming to the App Store.

A phone folded like a laptop, the arcade cabinet standing on the raised half and the maple lane on the half below. A ball has just dropped into the right corner pocket, 100! is lit across the brass plate and the bulbs chase pink.

Roll it over the fold

Flick the ball up the lane on the bottom half. Speed is everything: too soft and it dies on the ramp and rolls back, just right and it sails off the lip into the rings. The rings are hexagons cut in a brass plate, 10 on the outside to 50 in the middle, and a "C" corner pocket on each side is worth 100, with its own 100 LED. Nine balls make a frame, and a frame of nothing but 30s is par, 270.

Five ways to play

Classic Nine balls, every ring counts.
Hundreds Nine balls, and only the corner pockets count.
Rush 45 seconds, as many balls as you can roll, up to two on the lane at once.
Daily Alley Today's worn lane, the same for everyone, new at midnight UTC.
Pass & Play Two players, one phone, nine balls each. Most points wins.

Every way you hold it

Folded like a laptop is the way it is meant to be played, but nothing needs it. Opened flat, on its side like a book, or closed on the outside screen, it is the same game, and a frame you pause by opening or closing the phone waits for you. It plays on other iPhones too, with the fold drawn as a brass rail across the middle.

The closed phone playing on its outside screen: the cabinet above a brass rail where the fold would be, and the lane below it. — Closed, on the outside screen

An ordinary phone playing the same game, the brass rail drawn across the middle of the screen where a fold would be. — A phone without a fold

Made in code

Every sound is synthesized and every light is drawn in code: the chasing bulbs, the LED counters, the neon and the wood of the lane. There is no ticket economy: the ticket meter on the cabinet is just for show.

Free, with ads

Every mode is free. A banner sits under the menu and the results, never during a frame, and a full screen advert can follow a finished frame, at most every third one. When a Classic or Daily Alley frame finishes close to your best, you may be offered an optional video for three more balls. One purchase, Remove Ads, removes banner and interstitial adverts, not optional reward videos.

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