Have you ever been bowling on Wii Sports and thought, 'I wish these lanes were kinda like a giant floating puzzle?' Well boy, oh boy, do we have the game for you.
Super Funky Bowling has released on the Switch eShop today, taking the principles of bowling and making it, well, funky. This is less a sports sim than it is an action-based puzzler, where you will have to navigate a series of winding lanes to knock down all of the pins.
The title has been developed using FUZE4 Nintendo Switch - an application to bring accessible coding and game design to the console - and was built by first-time developer Nathaniel Strub. For a brief rundown of what this little games involves, check out the following summary from the game's eShop page:
• SUPER FUN – Lose yourself in immediately accessible, intuitive gameplay!
• SUPER FUNKY – Awesome original music compositions and sound effects!
• SUPER CHALLENGING – Master advanced movement techniques in order to beat the clock!
• SUPER SECRETS – Unlock hidden levels, player features and secret times by completing more and more difficult challenges!
If this game looks a little more like a mobile app than you were expecting, then rest assured that it has the price to match. Super Funky Bowling is currently available to buy for £2.99 / 2.99€ / $2.99, which is a small price to pay to support a first time developer. While it might not have the most groundbreaking graphics or mechanics, it certainly looks fun enough to pull-off a pick up and play style of gaming which is usually cornered by mobile.
What do you make of Super Funky Bowling? SPARE a moment to STRIKE up conversation in the comments below!
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This looks to be zero-parts bowling and all parts marble roller, but with a vague bowling theme.
I mean, it looks fine, just a bit barebones compared to other marble rolling type games. Marble It Up and Glyph remain the best options on the eShop.
Funny how that rhymes with Super Monkey Balling.
It's the first game developed in Fuze4 on the console itself to be published on the eShop! Amazing stuff and a big congratulations to Scrubz for getting his game published!
The amazing thing is that anyone can who makes games in Fuze now has the opportunity to get their stuff published in this way. I'm very excited for this!
Isn’t the title a reference to Nester’s Funky Bowling on the Virtual Boy?
@vinicity
If that's how this came to be, that's very cool that people can self-develop and publish small titles on the Switch like that!
This is a superb game considering the low price and a massive step forward for Fuze. Just think, anyone can now buy fuze and make a game that could end up being sold on the eshop. it's amazing and very exciting indeed.
Haven't picked up the full game yet but I'v played the original makings of it on Fuze and the physics are solid as well as the level design. Can't wait to get the full version!
@vinicity So wait. This is a game... Made IN a game?
@NatiaAdamo Well you could put it that way if you want. Fuze is much more than a game though, it’s a whole programming environment enabling you to create your own games and share them. It also has an awesome and very helpful community as well as great tutorials to learn from if you are a newbie.
If you want to see examples of stuff made in Fuze, you could for instance check out the monthly Fuze game jams here:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPC0FDpMfaXA2KTSBpxDFqO1jRwGVU5zG
Not to be confused with Nester’s Funky Bowling?
Super Funky Bowling sounds like what you'd get if you combined the TWO bowling games released on Virtual Boy (its library of only 22 released games still included two Tetris games as well).
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