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What Street Ball Jam is

Street Ball Jam is a one-touch basketball shooting game made by Maksim Eliseenko, with a release date of March 2017 listed on CrazyGames. The aim is straightforward: put as many balls through the hoop as you can. It is a portrait-format game that runs in a desktop browser and on mobile, and it is played with the mouse or a finger rather than the keyboard.

How to play

Everything is done with a single input: a click with the mouse, or a tap on a phone or tablet, sends the ball toward the hoop. A short tutorial with a pointing finger shows how to throw on your first visit. Each round shows a GOAL number and your current SCORE, along with a game clock, so each level is a race between the target and the time left.

Scoring extras

The game files include a few ways to push your score past a plain basket:

• PERFECT! callouts for the best shots.
• Combos, shown with a combo sign on screen.
• A fireball effect with its own fire bar.
• Time bonuses that add seconds back to the clock.
• Gems that you collect and spend in the shop.

Your best score is saved and shown as BEST on the main screen.

The shop

Gems are the currency for the shop, which is split into four tabs:

• Balls: different basketball designs.
• Characters: other players to shoot with.
• Courts: new court styles to play on.
• Extra balls: a separate tab for additional balls.

Items start locked and are unlocked with gems. The scenery in the build ranges from day and night skies to a beach backdrop with palm trees and sea, and some hoops use a chain net.

Tips

• Keep one eye on the clock. The GOAL, SCORE and timer sit on screen together, so check how many baskets you still need against the seconds left.
• Pick up gems as you go. They are the only shop currency, and every locked ball, player and court costs gems.
• Learn the throw in the tutorial. With only one input, the whole game comes down to getting that single action right.

Who it suits

Because the whole game runs on one click or tap, it is easy to pick up at any age. CrazyGames files it under sports, with basketball and mouse tags.