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Pocket Broomball
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About the game
Broomball is a winter sport that is played on an ice rink, but with shoes instead of skates and a broom-like stick instead of a hockey stick, and Pocket Broomball turns it into a quick game for one finger. You see the rink from above, with the goal at each end, and you move your player around to hit a ball into the other team's goal before they hit it into yours.
There is a mode for every mood. Tournament puts you in a cup or a league: you pick a team, play your way through the group stage, the quarter-finals, the semi-finals and the final, and earn coins that unlock more teams. Arcade is an endless mode against a computer player that gets better after every goal you score; collect the coins and the freeze power-ups that appear on the ice and spend the coins on speed, power and freeze upgrades. 1 Player is a single match against the computer, from Easy to Legend. 2 Players is a match for two people on the same screen, and Bot vs Bot lets you watch. Between matches, the Shop sells balls, sticks and helmets, the Hall of Fame keeps your stats, and the Settings let you change the number of goals needed to win, the music and the language (English, German, Italian, French or Spanish).
The original game has real teams and their logos. This version does not: the leagues and the more than a hundred teams you can unlock are made up, with names such as the Amber Foxes or the Azure Pilots, and each has a crest drawn for this page. They keep the colours, the speed and the power of the original teams, so the game plays exactly as the original does.
Playing it here
Click Play and wait for the game to load (about 8 MB to download, only when you press the button). The game is made for a phone held upright, so it shows up as a tall window; on a computer, it works the same with the mouse. Your progress (coins, unlocked teams, items and stats) is saved in your browser.
Controls
| Input | Action |
|---|---|
| Press and move the mouse (or your finger) inside the field | your player runs towards the pointer, and hits the ball when it touches it |
| Pause button (top right of the rink) | pause the match |
| 2 Players mode | each player uses their own half of the screen |
Tips
Go behind the ball. The player moves towards the pointer, so place the pointer behind the ball in line with the goal, and then run through it.
Do not chase every ball. Let the ball come to you and keep your player near the goal when the other team is attacking.
Use the upgrades. In Tournament, you can raise a team's speed and power with the plus buttons. In Arcade, the freeze power-up stops the computer for a few seconds, which is the time to score.
Pick up the coins. They unlock new teams, balls, sticks and helmets. They come from the Tournament prizes, from league matches and from the coin power-ups on the ice in Arcade, where a good run pays well.
Raise the difficulty slowly. In 1 Player, Easy, Medium, Hard, Extreme and Legend set how fast and strong the computer is.
FAQ
Are these real teams? No. The original game uses logos of real broomball teams that we cannot redistribute, so this version has made-up teams, leagues and crests.
Does it work on a phone? Yes. It was made for phones and uses touch.
Is my progress saved? Yes, in your browser. Clearing the site data erases it.
Is it free to share? Yes. The code is under the GNU AGPL v3 or later, and the source of this build is linked from this page.
Credits and licence
Pocket Broomball was made by Simon Dalvai with Godot Engine. The code is under the GNU AGPL v3 or later and his own art is under CC BY-SA 4.0. The commentator voices, the click sound and some icons are by Kenney (CC0), the snowflake is by mkwong98 (CC0), and the music and sounds are from Freesound: furbyguy and giddster and santino_c (CC0) and the hit sound by volivieri, under CC BY 3.0 (https://freesound.org/people/volivieri/sounds/37155/). The fonts are Carlito (Lukasz Dziedzic) and DSEG7 (Keshikan), under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. The made-up teams and their crests were created for this version by FredyGames, and the crests are released to the public domain. It runs on Godot Engine 3.5 (MIT). The changes (the made-up teams, and the removal of links and of the exit button) are in the patch script that is linked from this page, together with the licence texts and the full source of this build.