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Crash Mole

Crash Mole is a retro arcade game for Playdate!

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Crash Mole is a retro arcade game for Playdate!

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    Crash Mole is a retro arcade game for Playdate! Enjoy a twist on the classic game of Whack-a-Mole Play as a curious mole and dodge attacks from falling hammers How to play Move the mole horizontally using left and right on the directional pad While in front of a tunnel, use the crank to climb up and down The game will end after the 30 second timer has ended or if the mole has been hit by a hammer 3 times Each time the mole peeks above ground, the timer is extended by 1 second On the Game Over screen, the reason for the game’s end is indicated by an icon in the lower-right corner The local top score can be reset in the Playdate System Menu New in v1.2 Catalog Release Online scoreboard support! Scoreboard can be viewed from the title or game over screens by pressing A New list view icon

    • Crank: Required
    • Tilt: Not used
    • Microphone: Not used

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    Design, art, development Kait Sousa Music "Blippy Trance" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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    This game uses the directional pad to move left and right, and the crank to move up and down. The A button is used to start a new game from the title and game over screens.

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                1. 1 TimCraig 140
                2. 2 suragran 111
                3. 3 Jonahsmom 94
                4. 4 tallyfoley 92
                5. 5 CGM 84
                6. 6 AbramB 82
                7. 7 Mazz 76
                8. 8 HarvardSteele 73
                9. 9 sauteedvegetables 63
                10. 10 M.Trenz 62

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                Age note: This game includes mild animated violence against small creatures, but is appropriate for everyone.

                AI: This game's developer created it without the use of generative AI.