Mike Klubnika Releases Kuso UI Championship Game Volume.art For Free In Browser
Volume.art turns the pastime of building deliberately terrible UI into a playable collection, and its r/badUIbattles credit ties a browser toy to a community that has been trading bad sliders for years.
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Mike Klubnika, known for Buckshot Roulette and Machine Party, released Volume.art on October 1, playable free in a browser. Development began in June, and 29 works from 23 developers arrived by the end of August. Every mini-game uses a slider-style UI resembling volume adjustment, with a bar and a crown mark showing the target. The collection credits the Reddit community r/badUIbattles as an inspiration, and a soundtrack by IODINE is free on Bandcamp.
The pitch is one control repeated 29 times: a slider, a volume bar, a crown marking the target. What sits behind the slider is the joke. In "A man named Bow," players draw an arrow to launch it and the distance flown sets the volume, so the task becomes archery until the bar nears the crown. In "CTRL+ALT+DATE," correct answers in a robot-girl romance scene raise the volume and wrong ones lower it. "capital gains" has players buying and selling four stocks with left and right clicks while the volume tracks the money held, and the fallen prices stay fallen long enough that the volume objective fades into trading.
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