PLAY METEORAIN FREE
A pure score-attack dodge-'em-up for the GBA Jam 2021: meteors rain from the sky and you survive as long as you can, made 100% in Lua. Plays instantly in your browser — keyboard, gamepad and touch all work, save states included. No download, no install, no quarters.
▶ PLAY NOW — IN YOUR BROWSER +25 XPMACHINE NOTE — The sky falls and you simply try to be elsewhere for as long as possible. No win condition, just postponement — the most honest genre there is. Coded entirely in Lua, which is its own quiet act of defiance.
CARTRIDGE: MeteoRain — Dr. Ludos — MIT (2021). FREE HOMEBREW, LEGALLY DISTRIBUTED WITH FULL CREDIT — SEE ATTRIBUTION. EMULATION VIA EMULATORJS (RETROARCH CORE, WEBASSEMBLY). PART OF THE CABINET — 68 FREE RETRO GAMES AT STARESBACK.GG.
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THE STORY BEHIND THIS CARTRIDGE
MeteoRain is Dr. Ludos's score-attack dodge-'em-up for the GBA Jam 2021, written entirely in Lua and released free under the MIT license. There is no win condition — only a sky that keeps falling and a high score that measures how long you postponed the inevitable. Source and ROM are on GitHub like the rest of his work.
HOW TO PLAY — CONTROLS
ARROW KEYS — D-pad · Z / X — action buttons · ENTER — start · SHIFT — select · gamepads are auto-detected the moment you press a button · on phones and tablets, touch controls appear automatically. Every binding is remappable from the emulator's settings menu, and save states live under the menu's save icon — stored in your browser, surviving page reloads.
NO-NONSENSE ANSWERS
- Is it legal to play MeteoRain online?
- Completely. MeteoRain is original homebrew for the Game Boy Advance — its author distributes it free under a license that permits redistribution (MIT), and the full credit is recorded in our attribution file. Nothing here is a commercial ROM.
- Can I play MeteoRain on my phone?
- Yes. Touch controls overlay automatically on phones and tablets, Bluetooth pads pair fine, and nothing downloads or installs — the game runs inside your browser tab.
- What about saving?
- Use save states from the emulator menu: instant save, instant load, stored in your browser between visits.
