Piñata Pop

Operational Brief

Piñata Pop is a one-swipe arcade slasher: piñatas and candy are flung into the air and you drag a glowing blade to slice them mid-arc for points and combos — while dodging the green stink bombs that cost you a life. Pick-up-and-play in a single screen, built for a browser tab.

Designed and engineered in-house at Studio Eighty Five as a showcase of fast, lightweight HTML5 craft: zero physics dependencies (hand-rolled parabolic kinematics), a juicy confetti feedback loop, and a steady 60 FPS on phones.

• Swipe-to-slash control — drag a blade trail across flying targets
• Combo multipliers with a brief slow-mo on big chains
• Golden frenzy piñatas for bonus point bursts
• Three lives, escalating spawn rate, local best-score chase
• Instant load — no install, no account; responsive phone to ultrawide

• Objects launch from the bottom on parabolic arcs under gravity
• A fast blade segment crossing a target's circle slices it
• Slice good = confetti + score + combo; slice a stink bomb = lose a life
• Let a good item fall off-screen unsliced and you also lose a life