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Perimeter

Guard your side. Send the balls back.

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Play Perimeter
  • Players: 1–8 players; bots fill the empty seats
  • Full game: about 4 min
  • Quick version: about 1 min
  • Easy to pick up

Pong with a side for each player: send the balls back and guard your side. A ball through your side costs a life, and with none left your side turns to stone. Balls come faster and more often as the round goes on, and the last one guarding a side wins.

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How to start

  1. Open Gonfetti on your phone and start a room. Bots fill the empty seats, so you can play right away. Nothing to install.
  2. Friends join with the room's link or code, each on their own phone, side by side or far away.
  3. Or put Gonfetti on a TV, laptop or tablet everyone can see: everyone scans the QR code, and their phone becomes their controller. Gamepads and keyboards work too.

How to play Perimeter

Guard your side of the arena: send every ball back.

How you win: a ball through your side costs a life; lose them all and your side turns to stone. The last one still guarding a side wins. The Quick game is one round with 3 lives; the full game is best of three (or five) rounds, 5 lives each unless the setup says otherwise, with power-ups unless they are turned off.

  1. Your side, your paddle

    The arena has a side for each player: yours is in your colour, with your shape behind it. Slide your paddle along it to meet the balls.

  2. A ball through costs a life

    Your lives are the little shapes behind your side. Lose the last one and your side becomes a wall of stone.

  3. Aim, and punch

    The middle of the paddle sends a ball straight back; nearer the ends sends it off at an angle. Punch to send it back much faster.

  4. More balls, faster

    A new ball waits in the middle, its arrow showing where it will go. More balls join as the round goes on, and they all speed up.

  5. Power-ups in the full game

    When power-ups are on, a ball that passes a token takes it. Split turns it into two balls; Sticky makes the last paddle to hit it catch balls for a while.

Your controls

  • Slide your paddle along your side, as you see itthe stick, WASD, the arrow keys, the mouse: the paddle goes to the pointer or the on-screen stick
  • Punch the paddle jabs: a ball it hits flies off fasterA, Space, Enter, a click or the Punch button
  • Widen the paddle grows for a moment; ready again 5 seconds laterB, Left Shift, Right Shift, the right mouse button or the Widen button

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