The Crank Gym

Looking to strengthen your cranking arm to tackle some of those tricky Playdate titles? Well, look no further! The Crank Gym is here - and it's going to work those arms out until you're a lean, mean, crankin' machine.

As the newest member of Cassius's gym you can run sprint sessions on the treadmill, test your endurance on the rowing machine or lift weights until you drop - all in the name of high score chasing.  With three save files available, challenge your friends and family to see who can smash the club record - with the prize on offer having your name as the holder in their trophy cabinet! If you're a lefty simply spin the Playdate 180 during any activity and use your strong arm to dominate the competition - crank forwards, backwards, whichever way you choose! 

We will be keeping a global leader board for each activity running on our Twitter account - follow us and post your high scores.

If competition isn't your thing you can enjoy the relaxing yoga session on offer or help Cassius and his regulars Rita, Arnold, Nick and Kimmy solve problems to enhance their gym experience and build up your membership status. We hear three star members get a little reward.

The perfect game to share with the family  - you could even hook it up to the TV for a little cranking competition! Pass the Playdate around and show people how brilliant this tiny yellow machine is.

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Designed for Playdate and made using Pulp, The Crank Gym has indefinite replay value and is designed to encourage people to share their Playdate with others. The game autosaves as you progress and tracks to your file, so any personal bests, club records or gym member problems you solve will still be there when you return - with the club record running across all files. 

We built TCG with the aim to push the art capabilities and mechanics of Pulp and would love to hear what you think. All comments and questions are welcome. And if you'd like to rate the game the button is on the top right of this page - we'd really appreciate it. Thanks!

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To find out how to sideload a game onto Playdate, head here.

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The Crank Gym is made by fatnose games - whose first title for Playdate 'Along Came a Spider'  was nominated for Outstanding Visual Achievement in a Pulp Game, Outstanding Technical Achievement in a Pulp Game, and Pulp Game of the Year in the inaugural Playdate Community Awards 2022. 

If action adventure games are more your thing you can find that title here.

You can also hear George Banks talk about the project on the excellent Hello Playdate Podcast right here.

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You can hear the soundtrack for The Crank Gym and many other games in our collection of Playdate Pulp music NOW That's What I Call Pulp! - a collection of over 60 songs. Download for free here.

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We've just released a sequel to our debut game! Along Came a Spider - Valley of the Hollow. A massively expanded game from the first sees Eric traversing a dangerous new world, gaining powerups, uncovering its secrets and wielding the crank in fun and exciting ways as he battles toward 1 of 4 endings to his tale. You can find it here.

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Or if you fancy four new titles all in one go, grab our entire collection of games as part of The fatnose games Bundle!