Here’s a little game that’s worth a look. Your 59p gets you a randomly-generated side-scrolling platformer, sitting comfortable next to Run, Canabalt, etc.


You’re a ball (though there’s no rolling or inertia or anything, so you might as well be a cube or a dead cow or a concrete statue of Leo Tolstoy or whatever) and you have to jump across platforms, avoiding deadly obstacles and the bottom of the screen. You get points for time spent alive and for collecting bonus gems. It all works well, with good controls and options, it has a global leaderboard (only a top ten, but no bugger seems to have bought it, so I’m actually in with a shot on getting on it) and I’m very much enjoying it. It’s also got a fairly dangerous, though not life-ruining, one-more-go factor.

Of course, all this only applies once you’ve realised that you can hit the jump button again to do a double jump. Until you work that out – embarrassingly late in my case – then the game seems impossible and a bit rubbish. But now you’ve read this, you’ll know. Thank me later.

It won’t change your life, but you won’t regret spending 59p on it. If you’ve just three-starred every level in Angry Birds and haven’t got anything to play, take a look.