Bowling Lane MZ: Bowling Minigame Plugin for RPG Maker MZ

Bowling night, built right into your game.

Bowling Lane MZ is a complete ten-pin bowling minigame for RPG Maker MZ in a single plugin file. Bright skies, a polished maple lane, glossy rounded UI, big pop-up call-outs, and a bank of screens above the pins that cheer every strike and groan at every gutter ball. Your party members step up to the line as themselves.

No images, no extra plugins, no setup beyond one plugin command. Everything you see is drawn by the plugin.

Aim. Power. Spin.

• Slide along the approach and tilt the dotted guide line.
• Stop the power meter in the green sweet spot. Overshoot it and the release goes wild.
• Set the hook. The guide bends live with your spin so you can see where the ball will break.
• Easy, Normal and Hard: meter speed, guide line on or off.

Real pin physics

• Pins carry into each other, ricochet off the side kickbacks and bounce off the back cushion.
• Hit the pocket for strikes. A soft ball deflects and leaves pins standing. Splits happen for real.
• No two throws play out exactly the same.

Screens that react to every roll

• Three screens hang over the pin deck under a neon LED strip, just like a modern bowling center.
• 8 animated reels on the centre screen: Strike, Turkey / in-a-row, Spare, Split, Gutter, So Close, a flip-board pin count, and a fireworks podium for the winner.
• The left screen shows a live scoreboard. The right one is a "Lane Cam" with the pins still standing.
• After each roll the camera tilts up so you can watch the show.

Your party, your rivals

• 1 to 4 bowlers, any mix of party members and CPU rivals (skill 0–100).
• Each bowler appears at the foul line with their own walking sprite, plus optional face graphics and their own ball colour.
• Full scoring rules: strikes, spares, 10th-frame bonus balls, proper X / – marks, split detection, and Double / Turkey call-outs.

Four modes

• 10-Frame: a classic game for 1–4 bowlers.
• Practice: endless full racks that count your strikes in a row.
• Spare Trainer: 10 random leaves (the 7-10 split, the bucket, lone corner pins…). Convert as many as you can.
• Mega Rack: 91 pins on a wide lane. Same rules, huge crashes.

Hooks into your game

• Score, strikes and winner go to variables, plus a "player won" switch.
• Optional gold per pin and per strike, and a common event when the game ends.
• The all-time best score is kept in the save file.
• Script calls for full control: BowlingLane.start({...}), BowlingLane.bestScore(), BowlingLane.lastResult.

Made to drop in

• One .js file. Every lane, pin, ball, meter, card and screen is drawn by code.
• Sky, lane, gutter, accent and ball colours, plus the UI font, are all plugin parameters.
• Keyboard, gamepad, mouse and touch (drag to aim, tap to throw).
• Runs in its own scene, so it doesn't change your maps, battles or menus.
• Screen shake, dust puffs and confetti (one parameter turns them off), plus pin sounds that change with every impact.

Setup in 3 steps

1. Copy BowlingLane.js into js/plugins/.
2. Add it in the Plugin Manager and turn it ON.
3. In any event, run the plugin command Start Bowling (pick a mode and the bowlers) or Quick Match (party leader vs. one CPU rival).

What's included

• BowlingLane.js: the plugin
• LICENSE.txt: use it in your commercial and non-commercial MZ games

FAQ

Do I need any art or sound files?
No art. Sounds use whatever SE you pick in the parameters, taken from your own project.

Which RPG Maker?
RPG Maker MZ. MV is not supported. Can be converted though.

Can I use it in a commercial game?
Yes.

Can I restyle it?
Yes. Colours, font, difficulty, meter speeds, hook strength, rack size and every effect are plugin parameters.

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