XSwing Plus

💡 Trivia

The original game was named Swing Plus -Total Mind Control (Marble Master) and was developed by Software 2000 a German game developer and publisher. It was released in 1997 for PC, PlayStation and Game Boy Color.

My goal was to bring this masterpiece of arcade action back to life. I wanted to recreate the original graphics and game mechanics as accurately as possible. The game is written in Java and runs on Windows, Linux, Mac and Android.

⭐ Features

⭐ Spiffy addictive gameplay  
⭐ Hot Seat multiplayer mode  
⭐ 45 Challenging Levels  
⭐ Offline and online highscore  
⭐ Particle and sound effects  
⭐ Multilingual (German and English)  

📖 Manual

The objective is to simultaneously disband as many heavy balls as possible. To do this, simply place  three balls with the same color in a horizontal row. Now these and all adjoining balls of this color will disappear. Five balls of the same color in a column will shrink to one heavy ball.  Every 50 balls  you reach the next level and a new color will be added.  Pay attention: One stack can only take up to eight balls.

🎮 Start

Simply install the game with the provided installer for your platform. The installer wir place a Desktop shortcut.

If you want you use the portable cross-platform ZIP instead of the installers,  you have to download and install Java runtime environment (JRE) by your own:
You can get it for any platform here.
For example on Windows choose:
 Operating System:  Windows, Architecture: `x64` | Package Type: `JRE` |  Version: `8 - LTS`.  And download the `.msi` installer.

⌨ Controls

 ←/→: Move the crane
 ↓: Drop a ball
 N: New Game
 B: Change the ball set
 E: Disable particle effects
 ESC: Exit the game
 F2: Toggle Fullscreen
 S: Change game size (experimental)

🎵 Music

Thank you, Michael Motschmann (_MiMo57m), for the great background music tracks.

The source code is available on GitHub.