Pig Eat Ball is a sport a couple of pig. A magical, flying princess pig who likes consuming tennis balls. Eating tennis balls makes her rounder, so she can’t match by way of small gaps, forcing her to… regurgitate the balls to deflate, re-consume them, and proceed on to snarf but extra. Pig Eat Ball is actually bizarre, which ought to come as no shock provided that it’s from the thoughts of Nathan Fouts, aka one-man studio Mommy’s Best Games, creator of the fever-dreamish Serious Sam: Double D.
Mommy’s Best Games’ output is rarely something wanting imaginative. While their video games riff off different genres (similar to Serious Sam Double D being a tackle platform shooters like Abuse) there’s at all times some mechanical twist slightly below the bizarre, lurid, doodle-styled floor. In the case of Double D, it was the flexibility to stack practically your complete arsenal of weaponry on prime of one another and hearth all of them with a single button. In Pig Eat ball, it’s a continuously reinventing array of puzzle-mazes and motion challenges primarily based round consuming and vomiting tennis balls.
It works fairly properly, too, or so I reckon. It’s been in improvement for years now, however to assist drive the (at time of writing) 66% funded Fig crowdfunding drive over the end line and safe funding to correctly polish up Pig Eat Ball, Mommy’s Best Games have launched a large playable demo. 18 ranges from the ultimate sport’s deliberate ~200, supplying you with somewhat underneath a tenth of the pig to poke round. An analogue gamepad (ideally XInput-based) is beneficial, though you may nonetheless play with mouse and keyboard.
There’s a very good quantity of depth wrung from the straightforward idea of consuming, spewing and re-eating tennis balls within the demo alone. Recently spewed balls will nonetheless be sticky, inexperienced and gross, and whilst you can eat them once more instantly, they’re a tough meal to abdomen. Downing three inexperienced balls in a row will upset your pig’s abdomen, supplying you with a 3 second countdown till you mechanically vent your guts throughout the extent. You can maintain on only a little bit longer by consuming extra stuff, nevertheless it’s solely delaying the inevitable. This offers you at the very least some strategic choices for repositioning for straightforward recapture of your misplaced balls.
Just strive it. It is smart if you’re enjoying it. Kinda. The speaking clams are nonetheless a bit unusual, I have to admit. Feel free to carry associates and further controllers as properly, as the sport contains the aggressive Party Mode as properly, with a small subset of ranges from the deliberate remaining reduce.
You can seize the Pig Eat Ball demo off Itch.io here. If you prefer it, the sport is currently crowdfunding on Fig, with slightly below per week left.
