DASH is live.
2 levels, 5 skins, hidden coins.
i shipped a game. an actual real game. you can play it right now in your browser.
it's called DASH. a one-button rhythm runner. tap to jump, time it to the beat, don't crash. that's the whole thing.
a yellow cube runs across the screen forever. you tap. it jumps. spikes show up. you have to jump at the right moment or you die. the music is going the whole time. the obstacles are placed on the beat. when you find the rhythm, the level basically plays itself.
what's inside
- 2 levels. first one is easy on purpose — it teaches you the timing. second one adds a ship-mode segment where you fly through corridors.
- 5 skins. classic yellow is the starter. emerald unlocks when you beat level 1. inferno (red) unlocks after level 2. glacier (blue) costs 3 coins. prisma (rainbow) costs all 6.
- 6 secret coins. three hidden in each level. some are easy. some make you take a risk.
what i learned
this took two weeks. way longer than i thought.
the music sync was the hardest part. you can hear the song running and the spike at the same time, but if it's off by even a tenth of a second, it feels wrong. i talk about that fight in build_103.
the easy thing in my head was hard in code. and the hard thing in my head sometimes turned out to be one line.
play it
you can play DASH right now. no signup, no download, free.
what's next
v05 is already in the notebook. a tower defense thing. mostly. the notebook page is messy.
the goal stays the same — make stuff people want to play, then make better stuff.
— glitch.v4