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Canabalt — neat experimental gameSeptember 2nd, 2009 |
Canabalt is a one-button game where you basically play an action hero or something. Doesn’t really matter, actually. 
Dev time: 5 days.
Regular version is at the link above, big widescreen experience here.
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Great game. 829m personal best so far, beat that!
2312! Took about 10 minutes or so…
Love the random events that occur each time.
It gets too fast tho’, at least for my LCD screen. You WANT to hit boxes to slow down a bit…
Great stuff!
4515m with my pro box-eating strategy!
OK, done now.
5144m at full-out sprint – no box eating for me!
Amazing bit of work, it flows brilliantly, and the artwork is great too. An AI mode would make for the perfect screensaver.
I’m still debating whether an online scoreboard would detract from the pure visceral thrill of the run or not. A two-player mode could be very interesting though!
Thanks Raph!
Lobosolitario – I actually do think that online scores detract from it a little bit, but we might be the weird ones! I put up a version on Kongregate that uses their high score system and people seem to love it. I think it is distracting and overly stressful though!
I think a leaderboard would be bad because the randomness means some runs are much easier than others. This is fine when you’re competing against yourself, but it makes any sort of objective comparison between players impossible.
That aside, it really is great. Everything is so finely in tune with everything else, and the music just sends it over the top.
Very interesting. 1501 is my best so far, but I haven’t been playing very long.
6838m by intentionally hitting a box every 7-10 seconds or so to slow down. Almost without fail, my runs end when I faceplant into a wall above a breakable window. Strangely addictive game. =)
Those bloody windows are eeevil.
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