A two-code Gaelic football and hurling scoring game. Draw the flight of the ball with your finger and get it over the bar.
Drag your finger to the gap above the crossbar you want the ball to go through. The line runs from the ball to your target, and the ring shows where you are aiming. Yellow means the shot is on; red means it is not -- either you are out of range or the ball would go under the bar.
In a passing moment, drag to the patch of grass you want the ball to land on. You are not passing to a player, you are passing to a space -- whoever gets there first has it, so put it in front of a man who is running onto it. Tap SHOOT at any time if you fancy a long one instead.
Draw a curved line rather than a straight one and the ball will bend that way, left to right or right to left. It still finishes on your target, so the bend costs you nothing -- use it to go around a defender.
The wind is shown blowing across the pitch and in the corner of the screen. It genuinely moves the ball, so allow for it. Heavy ground plays shorter than firm ground.
There is no clock. Hold as long as you like to line a shot up -- what matters is that your aim is steady when you lift your finger. Hold near the left or right edge of the screen to swing the camera round and look across the pitch.
Scores are Gaelic: a goal is worth three points and is written first, so 1-05 means one goal and five points, worth eight in total. In football, a score from outside the 40 metre arc is worth two points.
Every level has a par to beat rather than a pass or fail. Three stars are available on each: one for reaching par, and two more for the objectives listed on the briefing screen before you start.
That is deliberate. Longer levels start too far out to shoot, and the ball has to be worked up the pitch with passes first. If the aiming ring is red, the shot is not on from where you are standing.
No. The game is fully playable signed out, and nothing is locked behind signing up. An account exists for one reason: it copies your progress to our servers so a career is not lost with a phone.
If you were signed in, sign in again on the new device and your levels, stars and best scorelines come back with you. If you were not, progress lived only on that phone -- deleting the app removes it, and it does not follow you to a new one. There is no way to recover it after the fact, so signing in before you change phones is the thing to do.
The game itself plays fully offline. A connection is only needed to sign in and to copy your progress to our servers; without one you can still play every level.
In the app, open Account from the button at the top of the main screen, then Privacy. The statistics are anonymous -- which level was played, how a shot ended, range in metres -- and they exist so I can see which levels are too hard or too easy. Turning them off changes nothing about how the game plays.
Open Account from the top of the main screen and choose Delete my account. It permanently removes your account, your email address, the answers you gave to the opening questions and your saved progress.
If something is broken, it helps enormously to include your iPhone model, your iOS version, the app version (shown in Settings → General → iPhone Storage → Over The Bar), and which level it happened on.
Get in touch:
davidcarrpi2@gmail.com
Replies usually within a few days.
You can play the whole game without an account. If you create one, we store your email address and your saved progress so it survives a change of phone, and you can delete all of it from inside the app at any time. There is no advertising, no tracking across other apps, and nothing is ever sold or shared. The privacy policy sets out exactly what is collected and why.
Over The Bar is an independent game. It is not endorsed by, affiliated with or connected to the Gaelic Athletic Association or any county board, club or competition. No official crests, badges or team kits are used.