Pushover

Started by VorticonCmdr, August 07, 2026, 01:31:07 PM

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VorticonCmdr

I worked on another classic puzzle game: Pushover

You can find a HTML port of the game engine at Github and it's playable on Github pages but you need to have the original game files. (I bought the game for less than 5 Euros on gog.com not sure if you can extract the original game files from a Steam copy.)

I was able to RE the whole thing and even found two previously undocumented secrets:
  • there is an unused tile set called "cavern" with no levels
  • there is a cheat/debug code nobody seems to have written/published anything about. In the main menu you can enter the level code + BOWIE and then OK and the level will automatically play through following a "solution tape" included in every level file. (there are, interestingly enough, a handful of tapes which don't resolve)


geoo

Hey! Happy to see more Pushover fans here!

I haven't had the chance to dive into your HTML port yet, but did you disassemble the whole game and reproduce the physics?
Either way, this is really lovely, especially as there's a level editor out (well technically two), so maybe it could be another way to play custom levels!

Let me point you at a few other posts:
Topic: Someone made a fangame called IshiSoft Pushover with custom themes. Also, the level files contain demos of intended solutions that can be watched using an Alpha version of Pushover.
Topic: I made a crappy level editor back in the day.
I also made a good level editor now: https://github.com/geoo89/pushover-tiledextension
There's also another remake which I believe stays close to the original physics but does have differences: https://github.com/pushover/pushover.github.io Based on this there's also an Android version out.