Umm, is there a menu somewhere that explains how to play?
From reading comments on this review, 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.
If you’re talking about Canabalt, the only control is clicking to jump. Try not to die. That’s about it.
which game?
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
Was it SHIFT 3?
No, the one I’m thinking of had a more pixelly/dark humor/robotic/techno/distortion aesthetic to it.
But you always die. The only winning move is not to play.
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
The one in the OP.
Missed it by that much.
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