Tap, then tap again
Your doodle runs on its own. A tap jumps. A second tap while it is already in the air gives the high jump — the one you need for tall stacks and wide gaps in the page. That is all there is to learn.
A stick figure doodled in the margin of your exercise book runs for it — the game you would sketch in the back of a school book in the middle of a lesson. Tap to jump the erasers. Tap again in mid-air to clear the stacks of books.
Your doodle runs on its own. A tap jumps. A second tap while it is already in the air gives the high jump — the one you need for tall stacks and wide gaps in the page. That is all there is to learn.
A hit costs a life, not the run. The page holds still for a beat so you can see what got you, then your runner flickers through anything for a moment and keeps going. The third hit ends it.
Play it now, free, in your browser
No download, no account, nothing to install. It runs in any modern browser on a phone, a tablet or a desktop, and on a keyboard Space or the up arrow jumps. The course is the same for every run on the same day, so each attempt teaches you the next.
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Run, but with love: a runner painted like the back of a Pakistani truck takes the highway, all flowers, brass and bold outlines.
A lone silhouette under a single-colour sky that keeps the score, from dawn through the day and dusk till dark.