A game for the Playdate

Turn the crank.
Keep the coffee up.

You are driving an espresso machine balanced on a single wheel. The crank drives that wheel — and the reaction pushes the whole machine the other way, exactly like a self-balancing scooter.

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Free · v0.7.0 · sideload to your Playdate

World board

Connecting

#	Player	Score	Survived
1	NonoM33	10 712	104.9s
2	sfy	7 754	76.1s
3	Rick	3 854	37.8s
4	AAAA	2 712	23.6s
5	Shadow B G	2 480	22.7s

Your run is sent on its own when the console is online. 500 points per second is the ceiling the game can produce, so anything above it is refused.

Nothing about the balance is scripted

There is a real 2D rigid body simulation under it, and the only way to save a fall is to drive the wheel underneath the machine before it goes over.

The cups on the tray are held on by friction and nothing else.

Then the rocks start falling.

The machine leaning hard forward on its wheel, a cup already on the ground behind it

6 modes

MISSIONS is hand-built and has no board. Every other mode has its own world ranking.

CLASSIC

Endless. It only gets worse.

RUSH

60 seconds. Score as hard as you can.

FRAGILE

The cups are your life bar.

CHAOS

Starts where the others give up.

SERVICE

Catch what falls.

MISSIONS

24 hand-built shifts, four acts, three stars each. The one to start with.

The machine caught at the last degree before tipping over

The closer you ride to falling over, the faster you score

Play it safe and crawl up the table, or hang at the edge for a x5 multiplier and see how long your wrist holds.

x5multiplier, at the edge

It falls over a lot

None of these images are staged. They come out of the physics engine replaying a real run.

The machine flat on the ground, wheel still spinning — A wipeout. The wheel keeps turning.

Rocks falling over the machine on a dithered slope — The rocks do not care about your run.

Controls

Crank: Drives the wheel. This is the whole game.
Left / Right: Same thing, if you would rather keep the crank docked.
A / B: Menus.

Facts

Platform: Playdate
Version: v0.7.0 — The World Update
Languages: English, French
Price: Free

Get it on your Playdate

Download the .zip from itch.io and unzip it.
Drop the CRANK-CHAOS-0.7.0.pdx folder on the Sideload page of your Playdate account. play.date/account/sideload
Pull the game down from your console.

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v0.7.0