Swipe Swoosh

The pitch

Swipe Swoosh is a fast-paced basketball skill game where every swipe matters. Aim, control your power and sink baskets to complete increasingly challenging levels. Master moving hoops, use helpful power-ups, complete daily challenges and achievements, and unlock a collection of unique basketballs as you climb the ranks.

Controls & how it runs

Aim carefully and shoot the basketball through the hoop to complete each level. Adjust the direction and strength of your shot, score the required baskets, and avoid running out of attempts. Use available power-ups to overcome harder challenges. Desktop Controls: Mouse: Click and drag from the basketball to aim and set power. Release Mouse Button: Shoot. Left Click: Select buttons and power-ups. Mobile Controls: Swipe: Drag from the basketball to aim and set power. Release Touch: Shoot. Tap: Select buttons and activate power-ups.

Getting a run going takes exactly one press: Press start, up top, and the game boots inside this page — nothing downloads in the background and no form wants your details before the first jump. The cabinet is drawn for a flexible screen and listens to mouse, keyboard or touch, whichever the game prefers. It reshapes itself for tall and wide screens alike, so phone, tablet and desktop all get the full picture. Given a fullscreen button, use it — scores look better at full size, that's just science.

Pro tips for arcade cabinets

• Treat your first run as a scouting mission. Arcade cabinets hide their cruelty in the second minute, not the first — learn where the difficulty spikes before you start chasing numbers.
• Small scores compound. Grab the easy pickups on every pass instead of gambling the whole run on one heroic line; heroes respawn, banked points don't evaporate.
• Watch the edges of the screen. In classic arcade design the next problem almost always enters from somewhere you weren't looking — build the habit of scanning the borders.

Swipe Swoosh — quick-fire questions

Does Swipe Swoosh cost anything to play?

Not a token. The cabinet is free from the first run to the five-hundredth — no wallet, no sign-up, no toll booth hiding three levels in. The adverts around the page are what keep the floor's lights on.

What sort of game is Swipe Swoosh?

It stands on our Arcade row — that's the family it plays most like. The pitch above is the publisher's own rundown of what it throws at you and what it hands back.

Can I play Swipe Swoosh on my phone?

Happily, yes. It runs inside the browser on phones and tablets the same way it does on a computer. It reshapes itself for tall and wide screens alike, so phone, tablet and desktop all get the full picture.

Do I need to install anything first?

Nothing whatsoever. Swipe Swoosh is an HTML5 game: hit the start button and it boots on this page, and shutting the tab sweeps the cabinet clean behind you.

Before you wander off

Personal best banked, or still chasing it? Either way the full Arcade row is powered on and waiting — The main floor: 415 cabinets of pure arcade stock — the quick, the loud and the gloriously unfair. If it beeps, flashes and dares you to beat a number, it lives on this row.