GravPool

GravPool is a pool game set in space, where you use a cue stick to hit balls beyond the boundary of the playfield. You aim in three dimensions, with six degrees of freedom, and try to score while avoiding traps. It has several single-player and local multiplayer modes.

Aim your shots

Balls hover in space, and you can move around the billiards in room scale to line up a shot. In seated mode, you drag the arena around using precise positioning designed to avoid motion sickness. Bombs can spoil your score if they explode, so you need to hit them out of the playfield first.

Game modes

• Single-player: pursue a high score across several arena shapes.
• Endless survival: see how long you last as the difficulty increases.
• Competitive hotseat: take turns playing against a friend.

The game’s history

In GravPool’s fictional history, billiards began as a noble game in the 1600s, played by kings and princes and referenced by Shakespeare. In the 1900s, its association with gambling and underground clubs linked it to a perceived decline in morals, particularly among young people. By the late 1900s and early 2000s, it had become more widely accepted and was played in rec rooms around the world.

After the great starship migration of the 2300s, space pilgrims adapted billiards for low gravity. They first called it Gravity Pool, then shortened the name to GravPool. Though the migration has ended, the game presents a simulation of the version those pilgrims played to pass the time. It modifies a flat, frictionless physics game into three dimensions: instead of aiming for pockets on a flat surface, you use six degrees of freedom, with obstacles adding further complications.