OPEN SOURCE · BY Karl Daniel

Channel Runner

Guide a tiny square through a scrolling green channel for as long as you can.

Endless runner · Keys or buttons

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Press Play to load the game from Joywisp. No external game service is loaded.

How to play

  1. Press Space or the Start / retry button inside the player.
  2. Use Up and Down, or the two on-screen buttons, to change your square's direction. It keeps moving in that direction until you change again.
  3. Stay inside the green passage. Touch a wall and the run ends; press Space or Start / retry to play again.

Controls & screen size

Space starts or retries; Up and Down change direction. Touch players can use the large Go up and Go down buttons. There is no hold-to-stop control.

A little tip

Alternate directions early and keep near the centre of the passage. Holding a direction is not needed: each input changes the continuing movement.

Creator, source & licence

Channel Runner is by Karl Daniel, hosted here under the MIT licence. It is a third-party open-source game, adapted for Joywisp; it is not a Joywisp original or an endorsed partnership.

Displayed as Channel Runner to distinguish this independent entry from unrelated commercial games. Original repository title: BitTrip (js13k 2018). Joywisp adds touch buttons, responsive layout, prevents arrow-key scrolling and reuses one quiet audio context instead of creating one per sound. No commercial brand affiliation is claimed.

Source version: bc484b3b50ee. The adapted source is in Joywisp’s repository.

Your game data

Scores and the current run stay in memory for this player session only.

Joywisp privacy · Closing or stopping the player ends its running scripts and sound.

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