Crash Mole

Crash Mole

Made by Kait Sousa

Crash Mole is a retro arcade game for Playdate!

  • Enjoy a twist on the classic game of Whack-a-Mole
  • Play as a curious mole and dodge attacks from falling hammers

How to play

  • Move the mole horizontally using left and right on the directional pad
  • While in front of a tunnel, use the crank to climb up and down
  • The game will end after the 30 second timer has ended or if the mole has been hit by a hammer 3 times
  • Each time the mole peeks above ground, the timer is extended by 1 second
  • On the Game Over screen, the reason for the game’s end is indicated by an icon in the lower-right corner
  • The local top score can be reset in the Playdate System Menu

New in v1.2 Catalog Release

  • Online scoreboard support! Scoreboard can be viewed from the title or game over screens by pressing A
  • New list view icon

Design, art, development
Kait Sousa

Music
"Blippy Trance" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Scoreboards

Top Scores

1
TimCraig
140
2
suragran
111
3
Jonahsmom
94
4
tallyfoley
92
5
CGM
84
6
AbramB
82
7
Mazz
76
8
HarvardSteele
73
9
sauteedvegetables
63
10
M.Trenz
62

More cool info

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  • 11.8 MB.
  • First published 08/15/2023
  • This game includes mild animated violence against small creatures, but is appropriate for everyone.
  • This game uses the directional pad to move left and right, and the crank to move up and down. The A button is used to start a new game from the title and game over screens.
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