Games Like PinUp Archery

A little archery range, made by one person

Hi! I'm the solo developer behind Pinup Archery, a first-person comedy archery game. You play a cupid in training, and every cupid has to start somewhere: a toy bow, a quiver of rubber suction-cup arrows, and 1950s pinup posters for practice targets, popping up from behind cover, sliding along rails and ducking away again before you're quite ready. Your goal is simple: stick as many arrows on her hot spots as you can, set a high score, and collect every pinup for your gallery. I wanted to make the kind of game I'd love to find on a lazy evening: simple, relaxing and a little cheeky. Pull back, hold your breath, let fly. Thwock. The arrow sticks, the board wobbles, the score pops. And when you miss, the game will gently remind you: "Wind. Definitely the wind."

What's in the game

Draw, aim, thwock

Ride the arrow

Land one of the trickiest hot spots and the trick-shot camera chases your arrow in slow motion and watches it land, all the way to the smooch. I still grin every time it happens. (Not in the mood? Press Space to skip it, or switch it off in the settings.)

Hit the hot spots

Every pinup has her hot spots, and each one has its own points, its own reaction and its own little joke. The board pays a little, the girl pays more, and a hot spot pays best. I placed every one of those spots by hand, poster by poster.

Collect 'em all

Every pinup on the range is also a card in your gallery. Each girl starts as a dark silhouette. Land a hot spot on her and she's yours, and every spot you hit reveals a little more of her in black and white, from the shoes up, while she waits on her "Still Under Wraps" page. Land them all and she's Pinned Up: her card turns full color, together with her Girl of the Month page with her name, hobbies, turn-ons, turn-offs, ambitions and a signature line.

Straight off a calendar from 1955

I wanted the whole game to feel like flipping through an old pinup calendar in a sunlit garage: pinup illustrations on sturdy poster boards, bright little ranges full of trees, grass and props, menus dressed in satin ribbons, starbursts, halftone and ink, and carefree swing music playing underneath it all.

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Thank you

Pinup Archery is a small game made by one person, and every poster, sound and joke in it has passed through my hands more times than I can count. Thank you for stopping by and giving it a chance. If it makes you smile, a wishlist means the world to me.