# Goodby Productivity! (flash game) **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [December 4, 2009, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodby-productivity-flash-game/519932 "2009-12-04T01:49:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2009, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodby-productivity-flash-game/519932/21 "2009-12-13T05:44:05Z")
Umm, is there a menu somewhere that explains how to play? ---
**Author:** ![Number](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/number/32/242_2.png) [@Number](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Number)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2009, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodby-productivity-flash-game/519932/22 "2009-12-13T20:10:23Z")
From reading comments on [this review](http://jayisgames.com/archives/2009/09/canabalt.php), I’ve picked up a couple of interesting tidbits. Though it’s often masked by the music and other noises, if you listen closely, you can occasionally hear a “crack!” sound, like an artillery shell being fired. This indicates that a bomb will land on the next rooftop. Starting at 4000m,a big junky-looking airship appears in the sky in the upper-right. I don’t know of any other milestones, which is sort of a shame. Those little rewards are what can keep a person addicted to a game for a long time. So far nobody has mentioned an ending. I don’t think there is one. However, I’ve noticed that if I play long enough, my vision starts to swim in a very interesting way. > [@Oslo Ostragoth](#): > > Umm, is there a menu somewhere that explains how to play? If you’re talking about Canabalt, the only control is clicking to jump. Try not to die. That’s about it. ---
**Author:** ![GameHat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ed655f/32.png) [@GameHat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GameHat)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2009, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodby-productivity-flash-game/519932/23 "2009-12-13T20:18:55Z")
> [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](#): > > Umm, is there a menu somewhere that explains how to play? which game? ---
**Author:** ![GameHat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ed655f/32.png) [@GameHat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GameHat)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2009, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodby-productivity-flash-game/519932/24 "2009-12-13T20:29:31Z")
And shoot, help me find another flash game I played a few weeks ago. It was a puzzle platformer. The aesthetics of the game were intentionally very pixelly and 8-bit looking. I seem to remember the core puzzle mechanic was being able to flip the game world between 2 (4 on some levels?) I dunno, spectrums or whatever. Certain objects only existed in one spectrum so there was a lot of run, flip, jump puzzles. Company of myself kind of reminded me of it. I also remember the very last puzzle of the game you could either kill your shadow double (the first and obvious method, resulting in a bad ending) or somehow save him (not obvious, good ending). I screwed up my first playthrough by killing him, didn’t feel like playing through it again. I might revisit it though if I can remember what it was called ---
**Author:** ![Number](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/number/32/242_2.png) [@Number](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Number)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2009, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodby-productivity-flash-game/519932/25 "2009-12-13T20:44:27Z")
Was it [SHIFT 3](http://www.kongregate.com/games/ArmorGames/shift-3)? ---
**Author:** ![GameHat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ed655f/32.png) [@GameHat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GameHat)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2009, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodby-productivity-flash-game/519932/26 "2009-12-13T20:53:19Z")
> [@Number](#): > > Was it [SHIFT 3](http://www.kongregate.com/games/ArmorGames/shift-3)? No, the one I’m thinking of had a more pixelly/dark humor/robotic/techno/distortion aesthetic to it. ---
**Author:** ![GameHat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ed655f/32.png) [@GameHat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GameHat)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2009, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodby-productivity-flash-game/519932/27 "2009-12-13T20:56:11Z")
Never mind, figured it out. [Time Fcuk](http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/511754) (sic) It’s worth a play. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Urban\_Spaceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8c91f0/32.png) [@The\_Urban\_Spaceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Urban_Spaceman)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2009, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodby-productivity-flash-game/519932/28 "2009-12-13T21:26:04Z")
> [@Number](#): > > Try not to die. That’s about it. But you always die. The only winning move is not to play. ---
**Author:** ![Bearflag70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Bearflag70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bearflag70)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2009, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodby-productivity-flash-game/519932/29 "2009-12-13T23:09:08Z")
> [@Number](#): > > So far nobody has mentioned an ending. I don’t think there is one. However, I’ve noticed that if I play long enough, my vision starts to swim in a very interesting way. Someone posted a score of over 80,000 with no ending, FWIW. I played for a while in the dark and noticed when the game stopped, it looked like my monitor was drifting to the right. My current high: 7200 ---
**Author:** ![A\_Spoonful\_of\_Awesome](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@A\_Spoonful\_of\_Awesome](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/A_Spoonful_of_Awesome)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2009, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodby-productivity-flash-game/519932/30 "2009-12-14T00:21:30Z")
> [@Bearflag70](#): > > Someone posted a score of over 80,000 with no ending, FWIW. > > I played for a while in the dark and noticed when the game stopped, it looked like my monitor was drifting to the right. > > My current high: 7200 That happened to me too. Also happens occasionally when I watch the credits at the end of movies. Interesting. Current best = 7090 ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2009, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodby-productivity-flash-game/519932/31 "2009-12-15T21:56:42Z")
> [@GameHat](#): > > which game? The one in the OP. ---
**Author:** ![Bearflag70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Bearflag70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bearflag70)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2009, 8:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodby-productivity-flash-game/519932/32 "2009-12-16T08:11:40Z")
1. Missed it by that much. [/Maxwell Smart] [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodby-productivity-flash-game/519932.md?page=1)