News

Bogus Canabalt HD Hits App Store Just In Time To Scam Off Indie Mega-Sale

You may have heard that Canabalt’s on sale this weekend as part of the Because We May sale. But if you see something called Canabalt HD on the App Store, don’t buy it. It’s a fake.


March 23, 2012
PC

Passagebalt Combines Canabalt And Passage To Make You Excited About Being Sad

Small, well-crafted indie games can be great about delivering unfiltered experiences. In Adam Saltsman’s Canabalt, you ran and jumped until you couldn’t any more. With Jason Rohrer’s Passage, you wandered around a pixellated world that represented life’s journey, meeting a spouse and making your way together until that stopped, as it ultimately has to.


March 19, 2012
PlayStation

Canabalt Runs Onto PlayStation Platforms This Week

Adam Saltsman’s Canabalt, the 2009 flash game sensation and mobile gaming hit, is making its way to PS3, PSP and PS Vita through the PlayStation Mini offerings in the PlayStation Store.


February 17, 2012
Mobile

Canabalt Creator Diving Into The Hunger Games For iOS

Adam Saltsman, the man behind games like Canabalt and Gravity Hook, has signed on to develop an action game based on the popular Hunger Games book series. It will “go along with” the film, which releases this March. [Adam Saltsman]


December 6, 2011
Retro

Canabalt Parkours Back In Time To The Commodore 64

This isn’t something done for internet shits and giggles. It’s an “official conversion” of awesome death simulator Canabalt running on… the Commodore 64, one that will soon be going on sale. Like, it’ll come on a cartridge. Amazing.


July 18, 2011
PC

Mirror’s Edge + Canabalt + Acid? Yes Please

Kotaku AU

I’m in no way condoning drug use of any kind (except for Panadol, because I have a headache and I’m about to take some) but Fotonica is Mirror’s Edge + Canabalt + Acid, and I think it looks incredible – as if someone put the one-button-jump game inside a Rez style universe that continually invents itself through motion. It’s a pretty incredible experience.


July 7, 2011
In Real Life

Canabalt, Sword & Adventure Time!

What happens when the creators of Sword & Sworcery meets the man behind Adventure Time? Green screen insanity, Canabalt high scores and


May 6, 2011
Mobile

iTunes Flash Game Ripoffs Get More Brazen With Canabalt Clone

Last week, the outright theft of a Flash game, republished for sale on the iTunes App Store with Apple’s approval, jarred the Flash development community. Though the app later was removed, anecdotal reports of similar ripoffs came trickling back.


March 11, 2011
News

There’s Always Virtually Running For Charity

When I was a kid we had charity walkathons at my school. We walked around the playground, making money each lap for a cause I’ve forgotten.


January 4, 2011
News

Daring Escape Jumper Canabalt Goes Open Source For A Good Cause

If you’ve ever wanted to dig into the guts of Flash game and iPhone hit Canabalt, its creators are giving you that chance, making the indie game open source as part of a charity celebration.