Download the drivers for this new, cutting edge trackball controller from Thwacksoft®

Included in Installation Package:

  • Driver for your trackball controller
  • Sample game Thwacksoft® Thwackball® Adventure to calibrate your new controller


About

I made this game for the A Game By Its Cover 2020 Game Jam in about four weeks. Being a big fan of alternative controllers, seeing the cartridge in the Famicase exhibition sparked my interest in designing an alt control game playable by anyone without the specific hardware. 

This game is released! Happy to make more levels if there's any interest.  Any feedback is greatly appreciated! For more alt controllers, feel free to follow me on Twitter! 

*not responsible to any damage of keyboards

StatusReleased
PlatformsHTML5, Windows, macOS
Release date Oct 14, 2020
Rating
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Authorjwhop
GenrePlatformer
Made withUnity
Tagsalt-ctrl, ball, Controller, keyboard, marble, Physics, roller-ball, wacky, windows-95, windows-98
Average sessionA few minutes
LanguagesEnglish
InputsKeyboard, Gamepad (any)

Download

Download
WinBuildV1.02.zip 39 MB
Download
MacBuild.app.zip 40 MB

Comments

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(+1)

Dude, do you actually need to use a trackball?

Anything can be a trackball if you try hard enough.. check out the opening cutscene 0.0

Umm, does it work on laptop

give it a try! Might have to have backwards controls 

Ouch. My Chromebook has a cover on it, Ill try and take it off

(+2)

Awesome!
Highly recommended especially if you want to clean your keyboard.

(+1)

this may be one of the stupidest concepts for a game i've ever seen... i love it, 100000/10

(+1)

This is really neat, I love the concept of this being a demo game for the trackball, and those win 9x aesthetics are on point. The control scheme was a bit confusing at first since I was playing on a laptop and thus didn’t use the keyboard-ball combo, but I eventually figured it out.