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Canabalt

Canabalt is a one-button endless runner designed by Adam Saltsman for the Experimental Gameplay Project in 2009. The 2D side-scrolling video game was originally written as a Flash game, then ported to iOS, Android, PlayStation Portable, Ouya, and HTML5. An authorized version for the Commodore 64 called C64anabalt was released on cartridge. Canabalt has…

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Genre
Endless runner
Composer
Danny Baranowsky
Designer
Adam Saltsman
Engine
Flash · Flixel (Flash, iOS) · HaxeFlixel (HTML5) · Adobe AIR · Unity
Mode
Single-player
Platforms
Browser · iOS · Commodore 64 · Windows · OS X

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Legacy

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Canabalt

Nodes59
Edges58
Triples112
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.033898
Components1

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Canabalt

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related to Release and ports · 24
Canabalt → Adobe Flash, Android, Android/Ouya, Beatshapers, Chrome Web Store, Commodore, Humble Bundle, In, In March, It, January, Kittehface Software, Kongregate, Newgrounds, Originally, Ouya, Paul Koller, PlayStation Portable, Saltsman, Saltsman's
related to Legacy · 23
Canabalt → Ben Gilbert, Crash Bandicoot, Derivative, Disney's Aladdin, Doom, Eurogamer, Game, Halfbrick Studios' Jetpack Joyride, Halo, Jetpack Joyride, Joystiq's, Kieron Gillen, MIT License, Moon Patrol, One, Robot Unicorn Attack, Saltsman, Scott Rogers, Scramble, Similarly
related to Reception · 12
Canabalt → Bonnie Eisenman, Doodle Jump, Flash, GameRankings, I've, If, Metacritic, The, The PSP, Tighter, TouchArcade's Eli Hodapp, TouchGen's Torbjorn Kamblad
Platforms · 9
Canabalt → Android, Browser, Commodore 64, iOS, Linux, OS X, Ouya, PlayStation Portable, Windows
Release · 8
Canabalt → BrowserWW: September 2009iOSWW: October 1, 2009Commodore 64WW: January 10, 2012PSPEU: March 15, 2012NA: April 3, 2012AndroidWW: March 19, 2012OuyaWW: March 28, 2013, EU: March 15, 2012, NA: April 3, 2012, WW: January 10, 2012, WW: March 19, 2012, WW: March 28, 2013, WW: October 1, 2009, WW: September 2009
related to Development · 8
Canabalt → Adam Saltsman, He, In, Saltsman, Saltsman's, The, The New Yorker, When
related to Gameplay · 7
Canabalt → As, Bombs, He, Missing, Some, The, Unlike
Engine · 5
Canabalt → Adobe AIR, Flash, Flixel (Flash, iOS), HaxeFlixel (HTML5), Unity
Publishers · 4
Canabalt → Beatshapers (PSP), Kittehface Software (Ouya), RGCD (C64), Semi-Secret Software (Flash, iOS)
is a · 3
Canabalt → gem that daringly mixes simple gameplay with an incredibly complex world, one-button endless runner designed by Adam Saltsman for the Experimental Gameplay Project in 2009, wonderful twitch game that strikes the right balance between skill and luck

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game version ios saltsman android endless flash ouya portable html5 also released adam playstation commodore 64 runner character video cartridge

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
CanabaltComposerDanny Baranowsky1.00infobox
CanabaltDesignerAdam Saltsman1.00infobox
CanabaltEngineFlash1.00infobox
CanabaltEngineFlixel (Flash, iOS)1.00infobox
CanabaltEngineHaxeFlixel (HTML5)1.00infobox
CanabaltEngineAdobe AIR1.00infobox
CanabaltEngineUnity1.00infobox
CanabaltGenreEndless runner1.00infobox
CanabaltModeSingle-player1.00infobox
CanabaltPlatformsBrowser1.00infobox
CanabaltPlatformsiOS1.00infobox
CanabaltPlatformsCommodore 641.00infobox
CanabaltPlatformsWindows1.00infobox
CanabaltPlatformsOS X1.00infobox
CanabaltPlatformsLinux1.00infobox
CanabaltPlatformsPlayStation Portable1.00infobox
CanabaltPlatformsAndroid1.00infobox
CanabaltPlatformsOuya1.00infobox
CanabaltPublishersSemi-Secret Software (Flash, iOS)1.00infobox
CanabaltPublishersRGCD (C64)1.00infobox
CanabaltPublishersBeatshapers (PSP)1.00infobox
CanabaltPublishersKittehface Software (Ouya)1.00infobox
CanabaltReleaseBrowserWW: September 2009iOSWW: October 1, 2009Commodore 64WW: January 10, 2012PSPEU: March 15, 2012NA: April 3, 2012AndroidWW: March 19, 2012OuyaWW: March 28, 20131.00infobox
CanabaltReleaseWW: September 20091.00infobox
CanabaltReleaseWW: October 1, 20091.00infobox
CanabaltReleaseWW: January 10, 20121.00infobox
CanabaltReleaseEU: March 15, 20121.00infobox
CanabaltReleaseNA: April 3, 20121.00infobox
CanabaltReleaseWW: March 19, 20121.00infobox
CanabaltReleaseWW: March 28, 20131.00infobox

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