Gumball Tilt
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About the game
Gumball Tilt is a physics puzzle set on a wooden board in a candy factory. A swirled sweet drops onto the board and rolls along candy-cane ramps, around bolts and past other obstacles; you cannot touch it, you can only tilt the whole board to the left or the right, and the candy follows gravity. The goal is to get it to the funnel at the bottom.
Each candy that makes it through scores 50 points and takes you to the next level, out of seventeen, with a new layout of ramps and bolts. The clock keeps running and hurries you along. Later levels have trickier paths, so you learn to tilt a little at a time and wait for things to roll.
It is a quiet little game, and what it asks for is patience with a physics engine.
Playing it here
Click Play and the game starts in the page, with a small bar above it for the score, pause, restart and sound. On a phone or tablet it plays with the tilt sensor; on a computer, with the arrow keys. Nothing is installed and nothing is sent to other sites; the best score is not saved.
Controls
| Input | Action |
|---|---|
| Left / Right arrow | Tilt the board that way |
| Tilt (phone or tablet) | Tilt the board by tilting the device |
A few things worth knowing
Small tilts. A hard tilt sends the candy flying; short, gentle ones let you steer.
Wait. Often the right move is to leave the board flat and let the candy settle.
Credits and licence
Gumball Tilt is one of the mini-games of a holiday web app that Google published as open source (the santa-tracker-web repository). The code is under the Apache License 2.0 and the images and sounds are under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0, credited to Google LLC and the contributors of the project. The game is the same as the one Google published: for this site only the page around it was replaced (score bar, pause, sound), fonts and libraries are served from this site, and links back to the original app were removed, so the page never contacts other sites. The licence texts and the list of changes are in the licence file of the game. This is an unofficial copy and is not made, endorsed or sponsored by Google.
FAQ
How many levels? Seventeen.
I have no keyboard or sensor. The game needs the arrow keys or a tilt sensor.
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