Pingball

The phone is the paddle — bounce a real ball off it and keep it alive.

Status: beta

Platforms: Web

Live at: pingball.theperfectship.com

Hold your phone flat like a paddle, bounce a real ping-pong ball off it, and keep it alive. The accelerometer feels every impact and the gyroscope tracks flips and barrel rolls between bounces, so the game is played with a real ball in a real room — the screen just shows a big score and an orb that pulses with the motion, because mid-rally you cannot look at it anyway.

Five modes: endless classic, rhythm against a metronome, tricks that pay for flips and barrel rolls, multi-ball that infers how many balls you are juggling from your bounce rate, and a no-ball tap mode for when you do not have one. Combos multiply, a dropped ball ends the run, and a daily challenge and global, country and friends leaderboards give the score somewhere to go. It installs as a web app; there is no app store involved.

It has accounts and a public leaderboard. Playing as a guest stores nothing on our server — guest runs stay in your browser. If you sign up, your username, country, and scores are stored in a hosted database and the leaderboard rows are visible to everyone. The privacy page lists every field that is stored, and the deletion page removes all of it.