Basketing

Pure Physics. No Scripted Matches.

Tired of basketball games where the engine decides who wins the ball or whether the shot goes in? Basketing is fully physics-based. Your momentum, your angle, and the bouncing ball dictate every single basket. No pre-calculated animations, no scripts—just pure, beautifully chaotic basketball.

Key Features:

Predictably Unpredictable Basketball: Control your sphere, dominate the court, and sink perfect shots. With real-time physics, every bounce, deflection, and buzzer-beater is completely unique. Dash & Defend: Jump and trigger a quick dash in any direction—including straight up—to intercept passes, block shots, or dunk with authority. Use it wisely—it takes 5 seconds to recharge! Arcade Mode Madness: Collect random power-up items spawning on the court to temporarily alter player behavior, turning a tense match into absolute comedic chaos. In-Game Soundtrack Controls: Keep the energy flow! Seamlessly skip and navigate between the game's diverse soundtracks at any time during gameplay by simply pressing the square brackets ([ and ]).

Play It Your Way

Grab your controllers and invite your friends over or use Steam Remote Play Together to experience the ultimate local showdown. Supports 1v1, 1v2, 2v2, or co-op matches against the CPU.

Make It Yours: Custom Skins & Courts

Want to play with your own team colors or custom artwork? Basketing lets you fully customize player and court textures!

Right-click Basketing in your Steam Library > Properties > Installed Files > Browse. Open the "conf" directory to find the template (.png) files and quick instructions. Open your favorite image editor, design your team's skins, and share your creations in our Steam Artwork community tab!

A Note From the Developer

Basketing is a true solo passion project built entirely from scratch without a commercial game engine. Developed natively on Linux using C++, custom OpenGL, and low-level libraries such as GLFW, Bullet Physics, OpenAL, and libzip, it stands as a tribute to raw code and the power of programming from the ground up. Windows was utilized strictly for cross-compiling and debugging. Every visual and audio asset was crafted leveraging the vast ecosystem of professional open-source creative software—utilizing tools such as Blender, GIMP, Inkscape, Ardour, and Kdenlive across the pipeline. If you appreciate independent, engine-free development and enjoy the game, leaving a quick review here on Steam helps a solo creator more than you know. Thank you for supporting the open-source spirit!