Canabalt (Run for your life!)

[Ruldra]

http://adamatomic.com/canabalt/

[D]

Awesome
3057 meters on third try, great idea

[drboom]

Pretty fun, but a lot of it seems too random and there are wicked jumps to make with little to no notice. Got to be on your ties to play this one. I do love the graphics and music. Stunning.

[Dragoforce]

Cool, but a bit too much random elements that made certain passages impossible.

[Acid King]

It's not that tough if you periodically run into blocks to manage your speed. I don't know if it's that good or not, but I got to 5400 doing that pretty easily.

[D]

It's not that tough if you periodically run into blocks to manage your speed. I don't know if it's that good or not, but I got to 5400 doing that pretty easily.

5400 is good!
bump for this great game.
I noticed the bumping into things too.
I had a building crumble down on me one time, great random stuff happens.

[ZOM]

NICE!
Love the speed, music and graphix. I too think it's a bit too random tho.
2038 on 2nd try - will do another run later.

[Ruldra]

The randomness is actually good because memorizing the path won't help you here.

Got about 6km then ran into a bomb.

[D]

5128

[Lordstar]

2234 on my first try. then i kept getting worse from there.

the trick is just to watch the very right of the screen and just gauge how hard to need to jump its the bit where you have to jump or or down in to windows which keep fucking me up.

[Ruldra]

Got 8km yesterday and some huge ship appeared on the background.

[drboom]

pics or it didn't happen...

is there an end to this?

[saucykobold]

6237 was the best I could do after about twenty minutes.

The randomness is actually good because memorizing the path won't help you here.

[Limbrooke]

Ah but it did...

pics or it didn't happen...

is there an end to this?

I haven't seen one, probably after 100k or something otherwise I'd bet no.

[drboom]

Got 11,643 on a run this morning. This game is strangely addictive, even with its problems.

[moozooh]

I had a 9594m attempt within 30 minutes of playing the game, every other 6k+ attempt got thwarted by bad randomness (particularly the buildings where you have to jump in a window that is way below your current height).

[pcb_revival]

This is similair to the "Skating Board" game in WarioWare Inc for GameBoy Advance.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JA603x9TPEM

[moozooh]

So I decided to return to this game and got this within two attempts: http://img688.imageshack.us/img688/1931/snap0184.png

[Dragoforce]

Anyone tried the shameless clone? http://games.adultswim.com/robot-unicor ... -game.html

[Jon]

After playing for about fifteen minutes I have only managed 4739 Strangely compelling though. I really like the music, too bad i can't turn it up at work.

[UnscathedFlyingObject]

Most of us would be lucky to do anything fun at work.

[Ghegs]

Anyone tried the shameless clone? http://games.adultswim.com/robot-unicor ... -game.html

I played quite a bit of it some time ago. 97028 is my best.

[MadScientist]

Somebody at Ubisoft is also a big Canabalt fan apparently;

http://www.kongregate.com/games/Ubisoft ... flash-game

[shake_zula]

5226m is my best, I'll beat it later

[dcharlie]

I played quite a bit of it some time ago. 97028 is my best.

fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuk, wow - that's quite a score.

I managed to get to around 38k on the "older" iphone version that lacked the large ships that crash down and take out buildings, after that, stuck around the 15k mark.

Awesome little game.

[linko9]

Fun game. I saw the huge mothership too.



In the upper right corner.

[TrevHead (TVR)]

Does anyone know the name of that Canabalt sequel or clone that looks stylistically simler to canabalt but is red and black instead of greyscale and has you running from a tenticle monster. I remember seeing it on a episode of bytejacker sometime last year.

[MadScientist]

Does anyone know the name of that Canabalt sequel or clone...

That'll be rComplex.

http://rekcahdam.blogspot.com/2009/11/rcomplex.html

[Ruldra]

The Prince of Persia one is really cool. I wish rewinding also affected the timer, it'd remove all the frustration from speedrunning attempts.

As for the unicorn one:



I'd play more, but too much pink

[Scientist_x]

Man why is it that even now there isn't anything anywhere about Canabalt's achievements? I cant seem to find either the mothership or the Dark Tower for the achievements, and I have no idea what the secret achievements are!