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Loudnik dev diary: how the game plays its own songs
There isn’t a single audio file in Loudnik. Here is how the game plays its own songs, why the shots are so quiet and how the whole screen moves to the beat.
The story
A bright vertical space shooter where your weapons are music tapes and every station you free gets its colour and its song back.
Out in the Airwaves, the galaxy where sound carries through space, every planet is a radio station with its own song. Then Monotone, a conductor machine, decided there is only one right sound in the universe: a clean A at 440 hertz. Everything else is noise.
His Jammers switch the stations off one by one. The music dies, the planets turn grey, people whisper. Only one pirate station is still on air: DJ Volta’s little ship. With Bobina, her cassette robot, she turns everything up to full.
Ten stations stand between Volta and Monotone, from Pirate Cove and Disco Rings to Bell Garden and beyond. Every station has its own world and its own song, played live by the game.
- Length10 stations
- Free to play3 stations free
- Plays onComputer, tablet, phone
- AgeAll ages
- LanguageEnglish
What you’ll do
Insert a tape
Five weapons, each with its own sound: Beat, Chord, Solo, Trill and Bass. Five steps of volume per tape, then overdrive.
Drop a record
Four kinds of bombs, from a bass drop that turns bullets into notes to a wall of sound.
Bring the colour back
Every Jammer you down gives the station some colour back. Beat the boss and it goes on air.
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Game details
| Genre | Retro vertical space shooter |
|---|---|
| Stations | Ten stations, ten songs, ten bosses |
| Price | The first three stations are free; the full game is $4.99, paid once |
| Controls | Drag with one finger; arrows or WASD on a computer |
| Released | October 2026 |
| Developer | Turbo Pudding |
Questions
Is Loudnik free to play?
Yes. The first three stations are free to play in your browser. The full game, all ten stations, is $4.99, paid once.
Do I need to download anything?
No. Loudnik runs in your web browser on a computer, tablet or phone. Open loudnik.com and press Play.
Do I need an account?
Yes, a free Turbo Pudding account. You sign in with Google or with a code sent to your e-mail, and the same account works in every Turbo Pudding game.
Who is Loudnik for?
Everyone. It’s easy to start for kids and has plenty to discover for grown-ups.
Who made Loudnik?
Loudnik is made by Turbo Pudding, a small studio making cozy games that open right in your browser.
From the blog
Loudnik: meet Volta, Bobina and the Jammers
Who’s who in Loudnik’s first three stations: a pirate DJ, a cassette robot, a machine that loves one note and the gray army that switches the galaxy off.
Loudnik: the color rules that keep every bullet visible
Three ships on paper, a palette where every color has a job, the 1.3 to 1 problem that gave every bullet a dark rim, and the black-and-white test.
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