We’ve been keeping a close eye on the App Store to ensure that some of our favorite old school iOS games are updated to 64-bit so they don’t fall into the dusty halls of App Store history when they launch. ‘iOS 11. Tonight Canabalt ($ 2.99) has been updated to be a 64-bit app, removing […]
Canabalt is a side-shift survival iPhone game. Canabalt Developer David Burela moved “Canabalt”, a popular game for iPhone and iPad, on Windows using Project Islandwood, one of Microsoft’s tools for moving applications to Windows with minimal effort. In a blog post, Burela describes Islandwood as a “great tool” and demonstrates how quick and easy it […]
I was sort of blown away last month when Semi Secret’s seminal endless runner Canabalt ($ 2.99) received a substantial update for the first time in nearly three years, but apparently it was just a warm-up. Today Canabalt version 2.0 has arrived on the App Store and it adds all the extra modes and local […]
Canabalt The new project from creator Adam Saltsman is a studio called Finji, which is designed to “create new games and create new opportunities,” he announced today. Saltsman is the director of Finji, while his wife, Rebekah, is a producer who helps design the game internally at the studio. The two originally founded the company […]
I thought I was done writing about Flappy Bird. Truly. I’m a little sick of hearing about it too. But that… that’s something special. The creators of Canabalt and Super Hexagon – two much-loved games that helped launch the entire ‘simple but absurdly difficult’ category that Flappy Bird has taken to a whole new level […]
Canabalt has remained one of the original and most enduring endless racing games – it even ended up in the Museum of Modern Art. Today he is making an important change, because Canabalt HD is revamped on Android. A recent update added a slew of new levels, which retain the basics of running and one-button […]
Capsule is uncomfortable to play. The game has you piloting a small ship, presumably underwater, using only a radar screen to guide you. All you can do is move and stay alive, but in fact, it’s not easy. There will be many times when you will find yourself drifting without electricity, panting as the last […]
It all starts with a circle. The very first level of Hundreds, a new puzzle game for iPhone and iPad launched today at a promotional price of $ 2.99, contains nothing more than a gray circle with the number zero in the middle. No instructions are given to you. But when you touch it, the […]
The Museum of Modern Art in New York has announced what it calls the “nursery†of a video game collection: 14 classic titles spanning the past three decades. Games, including Pac-Man, Myst, EVE online, Dwarf fortress, Portal, and Canabalt, were chosen as “outstanding examples of interaction design”, whether because of the way they encourage certain […]
Konami brought their wacky Japanese reaction game Tomena Sanner to the iPhone last week. The game that was originally published for mobile phones in Japan made the trip to the United States. In fact, Konami plans to bring the title to WiWare in the first quarter of 2010. IPhone / iPod Touch owners were greeted […]
Adam’Atomic” Saltman’s one-button action opus Canabalt (covered earlier in a previous column) will likely become the biggest viral surprise of 2009 – no less than Saltsman himself, who admitted at this year’s Austin GDC Indie Games Fest to wasting and then struggling to capitalize on the game’s success almost instantly seen (the first 120,000 players […]
With its simple tap-to-jump gameplay, high-speed scrolling, and grainy dystopian atmospheres, Canabalt proved to be a successful Flash-based sensation when it was recently launched online. The game has now been released for iPhone and iPod touch, one of the first truly successful Flash games on the platform. We spoke to Adam Saltsman and Eric Johnson […]
I had a first glimpse Semi-secret software Canabalt [App Store] back at GDC Austin, I received a preview a few days later, and since then the game has absorbed an extraordinary amount of my free time. Canabalt has the same appeal as other extremely simple games for the iPhone like Doodle Jump [99¢] or the […]