Punch Power: Boxing Machine

HOW HARD CAN YOU PUNCH?

You have seen the boxing machine at the arcade. You have wondered what you would score. Here it is, in your pocket.

Grip your phone tight. Throw one full-power punch into the air. The machine reads it, puts a number between 0 and 999 on the board, and the announcer makes sure everyone hears about it.

HOW TO PLAY

1. Hold the phone in your palm, screen facing you

2. Wait for 3-2-1

3. Punch the air

Read that again: the air. Do not touch the screen and do not hit anything. Not a wall, not a table, not a bag, not your friend. The phone measures the punch itself. It never needs to land.

WHAT IS IN IT

- Scored 0 to 999, across six tiers from WARM UP to MONSTER; K.O. (1000) is closed for now

- A real arcade announcer shouting on every hit, in English and Turkish

- Put any photo on the bag and it turns into a WANTED poster

- Your best score is kept, and the machine knows when you beat it

- No account needed: arcade plays offline while you have credits, and new credits need internet

- Optional Ranked mode: a weekly worldwide leaderboard through Google Play Games (needs internet)

RANKED

Three ranked tries a day, one punch each. When they are used up, you can watch an ad for one more try, up to two a day. Your best score goes on a weekly Google Play Games leaderboard. Tries cannot be bought: money and credits never add any. Ranked needs a Google Play Games sign-in; arcade does not.

NOW PASS IT ON

This game was not built to be played alone. Hand the phone over and say "go on then, your turn". That is where it actually starts.

ONE HONEST NOTE

This is a game, not a laboratory instrument. It reads the speed and sharpness of your swing through your phone's motion sensors and turns that into an arcade score. Competing on the same phone is great fun; we make no claim that two different phones score identically.

In Ranked, phones compete on three boards by sensor: each phone with phones like it, on its own board's scale; small differences between phones remain.

Ranked is not available on every phone: phones with a ±4 g accelerometer, some entry-level phones and tablets cannot compete in ranked. On those phones arcade works the same.

SAFETY

Give yourself room. Look around before you swing. Hold the phone tightly.