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Trophy Town

New in town. There’s a pickup game running at Pine Street Courts.

Trophy Town
Works on phone, tablet and desktop · No download · No account

What it is

You’re new in town, and the regulars at Pine Street Courts are one short, so a game is the first thing on offer: three on three on half a court, first to 11. Make your athlete whenever you like: skin, face, eyes, hair, build, height and the number on your back.

Every sport has its own place. Hockey is on the Rink’s ice. Baseball is at the Ball Diamond, where you lead off and play shortstop in the field. Soccer is five-a-side in the Cage, where the ball stays in and plays off the walls. Football is seven-on-seven backyard tackle on the Field. All year but winter there’s two-on-two volleyball on the beach, and in winter the lake freezes for shinny.

The climb

Basketball, hockey, baseball, soccer and football each have their own way up. It starts with pickup games, and a coach watches them and asks you to a tryout. League games come round on the town’s calendar, and there’s a weekend cup, such as the Harbourside Cup or the Lakeshore Shield. At the top is the Town Trophy, against the Regional All-Stars at the Stadium. Each sport has its own level, and new moves come with it: a dunk, a deke on the ice, a bunt at the plate.

Pickup games can be Full or Quick, which is about half as long. League, cup and Stadium games are always full.

Between games

The town keeps its own time. The clock runs while you play. The weather comes and goes (cloud, a shower, a storm, fog, and snow in winter), and the TV at your place gives the forecast. The seasons turn, too, and the beach court comes down for the winter.

You walk the town. There are shops for shoes and kit, a barber, the Training Gym, the Harbour Café and the Lighthouse, which you can climb. You have your own place to furnish, and a stray from the beach can come home with you. People about town talk to you, and some will come and play. Rivals turn up to challenge you. Three goals a day pay a little extra, and games pay money for the shops.

The year ends with the Town Games, a week of all the sports. Take four golds and the Games are yours, and on closing night the town names its Athlete of the Year. Your team gets a name you choose, its own colours and a crest, and the Stadium’s trophy hall keeps every trophy in town.

How to play

  • Walk in townTap where you want to go, or the stick bottom left
  • Look aroundDrag; pinch to zoom
  • At a doorThe round buttons bottom right
  • In a gameThe stick runs; the buttons say what they do
  • How to play a sportThe ? button

On a desktop, click as you would tap, and the wheel zooms. Or use the keys: WASD or the arrow keys move, J or Space is the first button, K the second and L the third. On the ice, J passes, K or Space shoots, and from Hockey level 3, C dekes. In town, Q and E turn the view and + and − zoom. M opens the town map and H brings How to play back. Escape closes the map or How to play, and in a game or a drill it asks before you leave.

What isn’t settled yet

It is one player. Your teammates and the other side are the computer’s, and nobody else can join, on this screen or another. Volleyball has no climb of its own: it is pickup on the beach and one of the sports at the Town Games. Hockey plays as Rink Rattle does, with its own buttons in its own order and its own keys.

Your town lives in one browser. Nothing is kept anywhere else, so clearing the site’s data, or playing on another device, starts the town again. There is no gamepad support, keys can’t be remapped, and it isn’t playable with a screen reader. An older phone may struggle: when frames come slowly, the picture steps down by itself, first to fewer pixels, then without the sun’s shadows.

Build Log

  1. Build 77

    Hitting was measured over whole games played the way a phone plays them, where a touch and a screen each arrive late by their own amount. A thumb a tenth of a second late reached base about a third of the time. The game began learning your tap: how early or late you had been on average came off before your timing was graded, and was kept with your progress. Your swing’s window grew by nearly a third. The same thumb then reached base about half the time.

Credits and licences

Built on three.js, used under the MIT licence with the copyright notice retained in the shipped file. Typefaces are the ones already on your device — nothing is downloaded. Cover drawn from the game’s own court, player and light code.

Trophy Town is original work by Launchway Games.