Flicking

Activities theme

Uses flicks for all or part of the game control.

7
games
3
platforms

Alternate names: Swiping, Flick-based controls

Usually seen with touch screens where the player touches down on an object and then flicks there finger across the screen in direction the object should be thrown. Often required to do so repeatedly.

Note that this is not limited to specific controller as same can be accomplished with mouse, joystick, and other potential controllers (though with buttons this is near impossible to implement).

Popular tags

arg physics

Parent groups

Controls, Touchscreen gameplay

Games by year

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The first Flicking video game was released on October 5, 2010.

The Pokemon Company and Chillingo published most of these games.

Platforms

Android 4
iOS 2
Windows 1