Pocket Midway is a little boardwalk arcade you can carry around. Roll a ball up the lane, ring the targets and watch the tickets feed out, then spend them at a prize counter of handcrafted 3D toys you can play with in your toy chest.
Pick a favorite board from Boardwalk, Spaceport, Grand Arcade, Tidal Cove and Switchback. On iPhone Duo, Arcade Mode stands the phone half open like a tiny cabinet, and the angle of the fold sets the ramp. It is made by Rich Weiss at RDub Studios, a small independent studio.
Pocket Midway in 12 seconds, with sound.
New in Version 1.1
Version 1.1 opens new boards, brings friends into the game through Game Center and adds in-game events, starting with a Thanksgiving contest.
Tidal Cove and Switchback
New boards join the midway. Tidal Cove tucks its cups into seaside tide pools; Switchback climbs mountain terraces toward the 50. Each has its own look and music.
Friend challenges
Send a friend a score to beat on any board through Game Center. They play when they can, and you see who scored higher.
Event cards
Cards on the Home screen show what’s happening now, like contests and challenges, and how much time is left.
Thanksgiving Showdown
Earn tickets from November 12 through the end of Thanksgiving Day, Pacific Time, to climb the Game Center “Thanksgiving Tickets” leaderboard. The top 10 each win a mystery prize, delivered in a later update. Free to enter. Official rules are in the app. Apple is not a sponsor.
Find Your Angle
An iPhone Duo challenge: fold it up to lob it in, or open it out to skim it. Sink the same target both ways in one game to earn the Two Ways In achievement.
Made for iPhone Duo
Arcade Mode has been part of Pocket Midway since launch. Stand iPhone Duo half open and it becomes a tiny arcade cabinet: the lane lies on the lower half and the board stands up behind the fold.
Fold it upright for a steeper ramp and a higher lob.
Open it out for a flatter shot that skims in.
Close it and keep playing on the outer screen.
Lay it flat and the game plays as one screen.
A live RAMP gauge in the game shows the angle as you play.
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Screenshots and videos are the App Store media for Version 1.1.
Hardware in hand
BrainDrain on iPhone Duo, propped open for typing.
New hardware needs people willing to make something for it. Independent developers prepared for the iPhone Duo launch, then kept working with hardware in hand, refining the little interactions that make the Duo delightful.
“I’m Rich, the developer behind RDub Studios. Opening my Duo and seeing BrainDrain already adapted and working was an amazing feeling.”
Pocket Midway was designed with the Duo in mind. Arcade Mode shipped at launch, and Version 1.1 keeps going: new boards, friend challenges, in-game events and Find Your Angle, a challenge built around the fold.
BrainDrain and dinnerrr are also on the App Store, and dinnerrr is optimized for Duo. Different apps, the same ambition: give people a reason to enjoy the device in their hands.
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