#canabalt

[videogamepolls]

Have you played Canabalt (2009)?

Yes

No

I watched someone play it

I've never heard of it

Voting ended onMay 2, 2025

Requested by anon

[indietourney]

Woohoo! Time to break the mold! Yeesh, it's been crusting for months.

Where have I and Indie Tourney been? The simple answer is: college. It's been one ride after another both fun and challenging, sometimes one or the other, and other times both. I've been spending a lot of time meeting new friends, exploring my surroundings, and tackling a load of academics along with the search for internships and jobs. When it seems the world is throwing every responsibility at you, the best thing I can do is take my time and approach the way I think best, and that meant putting a hold on my projects... for now!

I've been itching to find a time where I can relax and populate this world once more. That time... has arrived!

Traveling Companions - A busy and bustling city of innovation and exploration, credited with popularizing the very term, "mobile", of course must fit the bill with snazzy, techy adornments. You can even spy various ships out in the river, stacked with valuable cargo and intrepid passengers hungry to unlock the secrets of the puzzle island. In the rural outskirts, you can also see Crazy Dave's Lawn, primed to play line defense.

The Chessmasters - We've spread our resources and set up camp throughout the forests. Hidden from the populous cities, these woods will allow us to carry out our operations and plot strategies with minimal chances of espionage leaking our plans to the enemy. Meet in the central camp right after our guided tour of the Pit. We are to discuss movement towards securing the Indie Artifact.

Like Clockwork - The grandest of optimizers have cleared an entire reach of the forest in the name of sheer statistics and economy. Their generators, conveyor lines, and automated logic circuits are unlike any other, and not only that... they seem to be diverging a handful of their power supply to fighting back against blue, ravenous fluid known only as Creeper. Goodness knows whether this scale of deforestation is truly justified...

[snoutup]

Do you remember Canabalt? About 9 years ago this was the game that inspired me to start making my own.

[tyraknifesaurus]

#batober Day 22: Run Words by @woodkidmusic Inks by @deinoninkus Based on the awesome 2009 game Canabalt by @adam_atomic #batman #batmananimatedseries #batmanandrobin #batmantheanimatedseries #thenewbatmanadventures #batmantheadventurescontinue #dcau #robin #timdrake #woodkid #canabalt #runboyrun https://www.instagram.com/p/CVWC49zPbBZ/?utm_medium=tumblr

[indietourney]

Bracket 6, Traveling Companions, have docked at our shores with a warm greeting prepared. Hear them now!

Conceived as an establishing link between the mainlands and an unexplored island of puzzles, the ports of this coastal civilization have since attracted visitors from a distant continent. They call themselves the most mobile of individuals, able to surf land, sea, sky, and even beyond the reaches of space. Upon their arrival, the visitors brought forth highly exotic gifts as an extension of friendship, with screens that could prompt action with the simple touch, and the ease of having a computer in your pocket. Their sheer utility was unmatched, but most of all, their pioneering games brought forth a whole new wave of genres in design.

The ports continue to operate as lift services to the island of Logic & Optics and now the continent of new games codified with a popular term, ‘mobile’. Many mainland denizens have already booked to travel to the new continent for studies and internships abroad.

Alto's Adventure (+ Alto's Odyssey)

Fruit Ninja (series)

Plants vs. Zombies (2009)

Canabalt

Full speed ahead! I'll be back again with new imported goods for y'all tomorrow. Take care until then! [Brackets Revealed: 68/96] [Next Reveal: The Chessmasters]

[godahlpresentslizziesmithson]

Actually, I'll come clean: for the bubsy game I wanted to make, I wanted to make an endless runner, cause I really hated Paws On Fire and I didnt think it engaged with the series history at all--the developers appeared to be positing that the only way to make a "good" bubsy games is to throw out all of the gameplay the series had had up to that point and make something that has nothing to do with it, subtly indicating the old games as unsalvagable--and I just don't think that's fair! What would a bubsy game look like that actually tried to understand what the old games were going for, what would a good version of THAT be? Instead they threw the baby out with the bathwater in the name of making a bit trip runner game, which is fine, but if I wanted that id just play bit trip runner!

So anyway I wanted to make an endless runner with bubsy that played a little more with speed and momentum, and was I guess a little closer to something like canabalt.

And I was imagining it would have an extreme variety of death animations! In my head I was thinking it would be cool to commission a bunch of animators to do a bunch of elaborate animations that would be rather long, and would be like little cartoon shorts that would play if you died after getting a particularly good score.

And...! And! I was thinking you wouldn't have to press a button to restart the game when you died--after the death animation bubsy would like wake up from a dream and immediately start running, beginning a new game without player input. I've done that kind of thing on a couple of the lizzie smithson games, and I think its a cool structure.

Anyway thats the bubsy game I wanted to make cause there's something wrong with me. Thanks for reading. There's something wrong with me.

[godahlpresentslizziesmithson]

I still think Canabalt is a good game. All the endless runner wannabes that came after it, they just don't got the right vibe! They don't flow right. Canabalt is the only one that got it figured out!

Heres a tag essay I wrote and then realized should be a part of the actual post:

Sometimes it's okay for videogames to be fake hard cause videogame challenge is bullshit anyway

[pleasestopthese]

canabalt is back

Canabalt Classic by Finji

The OG.