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Banana Blaster: Rogue Drones
A swarm of rogue drones is descending on your position.
You have one weapon.
It is a banana.
This is fine.
A swarm of rogue drones is descending on your position.
You have one weapon.
It is a banana.
This is fine.
Banana Blaster is a mobile arcade shooter where your controller is a piece of fruit from your kitchen. Hold your phone with the screen facing you and extend a banana in front of the back camera — the camera that faces away from your face. The game locks on to the banana and tracks it in real time using computer vision, entirely on-device.
Rogue drone swarms descend in tight, symmetric formations — diamonds, arrowheads, twin-wing patterns, spirals. Move the banana horizontally to steer your ship and blast them before they reach you. Each wave — sorry, each Swarm — is tougher than the last, and when you whittle the numbers down, a colossal Mother Drone arrives to make things personal.
As the campaign deepens, Kamikaze drones detach from the formation and dive straight down at your ship — glowing red, marked with a warning arrow, tracking your position as they fall. Deal with them or take the hit.
Here is the twist: poke a drone with the banana tip to destroy it on contact — and it may drop a power-up capsule as it goes. Direct physical banana contact. The drones did not see this coming. Neither will you, the first time a laser beam fires out of your fruit.
Requires one (1) banana. Banana not included. Please source your own banana responsibly.
€2.99 one-time purchase — no in-app purchases, no ads, no subscriptions. Pay once, keep it forever. Just you, your banana, and several hundred angry drones.
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48 seconds of a grown adult waving a banana at their phone, achieving things.
Poke a drone with the banana tip to destroy it — and it may drop a power-up capsule. Bullets kill drones but do not drop capsules.
Your ship fires automatically — all you control is the banana. Move it left and right to steer your ship across the screen. Poke a live drone with the banana tip to destroy it instantly — and there is a chance it drops a glowing power-up capsule as it goes. Steer into the falling capsule to collect it. The banana is the only way to earn power-ups — bullets clear the swarm, the banana arm you for it.
A continuous pulsing beam lances across the screen in your aim direction. Cuts through entire drone columns in one pass. Very satisfying. Very loud.
A pulsing cyan energy bubble wraps your ship. Drone collisions bounce harmlessly off while a full-screen vignette reminds everyone you are untouchable right now.
The entire swarm stops in place, hanging motionless while you methodically pick them off. Drones do not enjoy this. You will.
Three bullets fan out from your cannon simultaneously. Covers wide formations in a single volley. Pairs extremely well with a crowded Swarm 1.
The ship's fire rate doubles. The drones do not appreciate this development. Your neighbours will hear it regardless.
Activates on collection — the entire bottom row of the swarm detonates instantly. Clears your most immediate threat in one go. Best used when the front line is close.
Your ship gets one more chance. Rare and precious, like a banana that is still green when you actually want to eat it.
High-Power Microwave pulse fries every drone's navigation computer. The swarm scatters into chaotic tumbling — and ceases fire entirely while their electronics reboot.
Distorts local spacetime around the swarm. Drones drop to 25% speed, enemy bullets crawl, and the Mother Drone lumbers in slow motion. You stay at full speed. Make it count.
From Swarm 20 onward — one random modifier per Swarm, announced before the shooting starts.
Survive the first nineteen swarms and the rules start changing. Each Swarm from 20 onward draws a random modifier that reshapes how that wave plays. A three-second banner announces it before the drones move — read fast. There is no negotiation.
The entire swarm marches 42% faster. Formation edges arrive sooner than expected. Your reflexes are about to be tested.
Every drone has reinforced armour — takes two hits to kill. Pop counts are gone. You will feel every extra shot.
The screen fades to near-black. Only your ship and the HUD remain visible. The drones are still there. Somewhere.
Drones fire twice as often. Enemy bullet density doubles. Keeping open lanes across the screen becomes the main challenge.
Drones drop no capsules on death. The banana tip still destroys drones — it just won't reward you for it. Survive this wave on what you already have.
Triple the normal rate of drone detachments. Multiple kamikazes dive simultaneously. Tracking them all is the game.
Each drone pulses in and out of visibility on its own random cycle. The formation is there — you just can't always see it.
The swarm drops twice as far when it bounces off a screen edge. It reaches your ship much faster than geometry suggests it should.
30% of drones have reinforced hulls marked with HP pips. Two hits each. The shielded ones are not distributed fairly.
Every drone fires a three-way spread — left, centre, right — instead of a single shot. Dodging any one burst means threading the other two.
Kill the Mother Drone to unlock an upgrade. They stack. They carry.
When the Mother Drone is destroyed, an upgrade selection screen appears between swarms. Pick one of three random upgrades — it stays with you permanently for the rest of the run. Stack upgrades strategically to build a loadout that can handle the modifiers waiting in the high swarms. The Lifesteal upgrade also rewards a bonus life for clearing any swarm without taking a single hit.
15% chance to deflect any incoming enemy shot — reversing its direction and turning it back on the swarm. Pairs well against Suppression Fire.
Absorbs one hit per Swarm for free — including kamikaze impacts. Recharges at the start of each wave. Essential on Blackout.
Permanently fires a three-bullet spread on every shot — no power-up required. Shreds dense formations and cancels No Power-ups entirely.
Bullets that reach a screen edge bounce back — once. Corner shots can arc across the entire swarm. Geometry becomes a weapon.
Power-up capsules drift toward your ship automatically. No more steering to collect — they come to you. Nice on high-density Swarms.
Clear a Swarm without taking a single hit and earn a bonus life. Instantly rewarding when you actually pull it off.
All your bullets deal double damage. Iron Carapace drones fall in one hit. Shielded Vanguard stops being a chore. Essential once the modifiers start.
Permanent 20% increase to fire rate — stacks on top of the Rapid Fire power-up when active. The ship practically vibrates. Neighbours will hear it.
Declassified. Probably.
Coordinates swarms too small to be taken seriously. Has filed 47 workplace grievances against bananas. Threat level: persistent.
Logs flight hours obsessively. Claims to hold a human pilot's licence. Does not hold a human pilot's licence. Very sensitive about this.
Compensates for poor aerodynamics with sheer aggression. Banned from three international airspace treaties. Won all three appeals.
Technically too heavy to fly. Does anyway. When asked about this, engineering shrugs. Physics are considered advisory.
Sleek, fast, and slightly smug about both. Has a personal vendetta against radar systems. Origin of vendetta: classified.
The only drone in the fleet that files proper paperwork. Meticulous, organised, thorough. Still absolutely wants to kill you.
Aggressive paint job. Aggressive flight path. Aggressive idle animation. Aggressively named. Just very, very aggressive.
Moves so fast its own targeting computer loses track of it. Engineering considers this a feature. Pilots consider it a problem. There are no pilots.
Other than the obvious reason, which is the banana.
CV tracks the banana tip and angle live on-device. No cloud, no latency, no explaining yourself to anyone.
10 seeded symmetric patterns — each Swarm number always generates the same layout, so you can actually learn and counter them.
Neon drone glows, silhouette bloom, laser pulses, shield vignettes, and explosion cascades — all GPU-rendered at 60 fps so the carnage looks premium.
Drones periodically break formation and dive straight at your ship, tracking your horizontal position as they fall. Red glow, warning arrow, no subtlety. Deal with them or lose a life.
Six detuned oscillators synthesize a drone buzz in real time. Quiet and distant at first — then the swarm descends and the sound fills the room. The audio is strikingly true to life: players consistently recognise it as an actual drone swarm. Banana Blaster is, among other things, an educational experience.
Actual gameplay. No marketing department was involved.
Open the fridge or fruit bowl. Select a banana of reasonable curvature. Hold your phone normally — screen toward you — and extend the banana in front of the back camera, on the far side of the phone. The game locks on automatically.
Tap "Allow" when the game asks for camera permission. This is strictly to see your banana. Nothing else. We wrote it in the privacy policy.
Move the banana horizontally and the ship follows. Your cannon fires on its own. Focus on staying alive.
Move the banana tip onto a live drone to destroy it instantly. Destroyed drones have a chance to drop a power-up capsule — steer your ship into it to collect. Laser beam, freeze blast, shield — all obtained by physically touching a drone with a banana.
When ≤8 drones remain, the Mother Drone deploys and crosses the screen firing aimed shots. Destroy it and an upgrade selection appears between swarms — pick one permanent ability that carries into every future wave.
From Swarm 20 onward, each wave arrives with a random modifier — speed surges, blackouts, split fire, stealth, and more. A three-second warning is shown before the swarm moves. Read it. Then deal with it.
Bug reports, feedback, banana varieties that work particularly well, and feature requests:
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