Play the alpha demo at itch.io !
The 90s are back! In pog form
P.O.G.S. – Power of Golden Slammer is a game about being a kid in the 90s during the pogs craze!
Power of Golden Slammer is about riding your skateboard around different parts of town, winning and losing pogs battling other kids, hanging out at arcades, parks and malls, mowing lawns to earn money to buy more pogs at the video store and collecting rad items like electronic LCD handheld games, slap bracelets and wearable items which increase your coolness!
You can play an alpha demo of POGS now at itch.io ! It currently features
- a single area of town with 2 characters to battle
- a special quest with an unlockable item
- a customer for your lawn mowing business
- slap bracelets and an LCD handheld electronic game
The Park
Each area of town to be featured in P.O.G.S. will have it’s own unique atmosphere, characters to meet and battle, quests to do, items to unlock and pogs to win. Once you’ve become the cool kid on the block you can unlock the next part of town!
For now you can play in The Park. Along with some decent pavement to ride your skateboard (in third person and first person) this zone has a video store to buy pogs from, check out the VHS tapes and read magazines, meet your friend and do some quests.
Authentic POGS battles
You may be wondering “How does a pogs battle actually work in P.O.G.S.?” To summarize, the player and the opponent take turns slamming a stack of pogs with their slammer and keep whichever pogs flip over on their turn.
For the player this means either doing a normal slam by clicking the “SLAM” button as it appears or using your one shot SPECIAL SLAM to attempt using the power of leverage to get a really sweet payout. This technique was so powerful it was often outlawed! But P.O.G.S. is still the wild west.
Make no mistake however the SPECIAL SLAM can cost you dearly if you are too greedy and attempt to lever too many caps or can be wasted if you wait to use it when there are only a few caps remaining. Using the SPECIAL SLAM properly requires some amount of strategy and skill to time the drop while your GOLDEN SLAMMER is angled just right.