Player 1
W
A
D
- A
- Move left
- D
- Move right
- S
- Change character
- W
- Jump, or step back a character on the title screen
Slime Volleyball
Two players, one keyboard, first to ten.
Controls
Player 2
I
J
L
- J / ←
- Move left
- L / →
- Move right
- K / ↓
- Change character
- I / ↑
- Jump, or step back a character on the title screen
Debug information
About Slime Volleyball
Slime Volleyball is the game that started it all: two blobs, one net, and a ball that refuses to stay on the other side. It first appeared in 1999 when Quin Pendragon, then a computer science student at the University of Western Australia, took a one-player curiosity that was doing the rounds of his course and rewrote it as a proper two-player game with far better physics. It spread across university computer labs, then across the internet, and spawned an entire family of slime sports.
This is that game. Not a remake, not a reimagining — the original Java version ported line by line to JavaScript so it runs in any modern browser with nothing to install. The ball arcs the way it always did, the slimes are exactly as round, and a good opponent still has that maddening knack for getting a slime under everything.
How to play
First to ten wins. Move your slime under the ball to return it; jump to spike. The ball can bounce off the net, the wall and your opponent's head, and it usually does. Two players on one keyboard — the keys are above.
Tip: the game is about positioning, not speed. Watch where the ball is going to land, not where it is.
Curious where the slimes came from? Play the 1999 one-player original that Quin rewrote — jagged pixels and all. Looking for the other sports? Try Slime Soccer for the same physics with goals, or Slime Cricket if you want something slower and more tactical.
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