If you took any normal online game, stripped it down to its simplest form and increased the ‘one more go’ factor by a million, the resulting game would be a lot like Canabalt.

In Canabalt, all you really need to do is jump – the running’s all taken care of. You just jump whenever an obstacle gets in your way or you need to leap to a new ledge. And yet something about Canabalt is thrilling. It might be the animation, it might be the unseen foe – either way, it’s great.

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