Basketball Line
Same destination, a hoop, but you draw the route instead of walking the ball.
Basket & Ball
Basketball
How Basket & Ball plays
Move the basketball across platforms and bounce it over traps until it reaches the basket.
Basket & Ball
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What Basket & Ball is
Basket & Ball is a platform route. You move the basketball across platforms and bounce it over traps until it reaches the basket.
Holding a direction into a trap is an instant miss. The spacebar bounce has to happen before the edge, not after the ball is already in the hazard.
It is not a shooting-aim game. Treating the level like a hoop meter wastes the platform route the stage is built around.
Core mechanics
Direction keys carry the ball along the platform. They do not aim a shot at a distant rim. The basket is the end of the route.
Spacebar is the bounce that clears a trap or a gap. Timing is before the edge. A bounce after you have fallen does not rewind the miss.
Basketball Line would solve a similar picture by drawing. Here you have to walk the ball, which means every trap is a movement problem.
Highlights
- Move the ball across platforms to the basket.
- Spacebar bounces, and it must happen before the edge.
- Holding a direction into a trap is an instant miss.
- Aiming a shot meter does not clear the course.
- The route is the puzzle.
What this page covers
- Basket & Ball is the platform walk. Spacebar has to bounce the ball before a trap, or the direction key carries it in.
- Basketball Line draws a path around bombs. There is no spacebar bounce and no platform edge.
- Dunk Fall drops one ball for a score. It does not ask you to cross a course.
How to play
- Move along the platform toward the next safe gap.
- Press spacebar before the edge when a trap or a hole is coming.
- Land, then choose the next direction. Do not hold the key through a hazard.
- Repeat until the route reaches the basket.
- If you miss, restart the approach earlier instead of aiming a shot from the trap.
Controls
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PC
Use arrow keys to move the basketball in all directions. Press spacebar to make the ball bounce and jump over obstacles.
Mobile Device
Touch and drag to move the basketball. Tap to make the ball bounce and jump over obstacles.
Strategy
Bounce early
Spacebar after the edge is too late. The direction you are holding will already have taken the ball into the trap.
Release the direction
Holding forward through a hazard is the instant miss. Let go, bounce, then press the next direction.
Follow the platforms
The level is a route. A shooting arc from the start does not replace the platforms.
Common mistakes
- Holding a direction into a trap is an instant miss. The spacebar bounce has to happen before the edge.
- Treating it like a shooting aim game wastes the platform route the level is built around.
A run from start to finish
Walk the ball toward the next trap and press spacebar while there is still platform under it. Holding the direction key across the edge is the instant miss. The bounce has to happen first. After you land, choose the next direction. Do not keep the old key held from before the jump.
If you start aiming at the basket like a shot meter, you will skip the platforms the level is made of. Basketball Line would have drawn this route. Here you have to bounce it. Restart the approach one platform earlier whenever the bounce was late.
Hold the direction key until you are close to a trap, then let go and press spacebar while the ball still has platform under it. If you keep holding the direction through the edge, the bounce is already too late and the miss is instant. After a landing, pick the next direction on purpose. The key you held before the bounce will carry you into the next trap if you never released it. Aiming at the basket from the start skips the platforms. The basket is the end of the route, not a shot meter at the far side of the screen.
- Read the next trap before you hold a direction.
- Walk up to the edge.
- Bounce with spacebar while you still have ground.
- Choose the landing direction.
- Continue until the basket is the platform you reached.
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Questions about Basket & Ball
When do you press spacebar in Basket & Ball?
Before the edge. The bounce has to happen before a trap. Holding a direction into the trap is an instant miss.
Can you beat a level by aiming a shot?
No. The level is a platform route. Shot-meter habits skip the path the stage is built around.
How is this different from Basketball Line?
Line draws a path around bombs. Here you walk the ball and bounce it.
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