Every once in a while, a game will come along that will make you stop what you’re doing and just watch. Canabalt [App Store] IS that game. A flash game originally, Canabalt was developed by Adam “Atomic” Saltsman. He made it in just 5 days for the Experimental Gameplay Project. Over the course of a relatively small development cycle, Canabalt was ported to the iPhone by Semi Secret (formed by Saltsman and partners Eric Johnson and Danny Baranowsky).

Upon firing up the game, you’re immediately thrust in to an apocalyptic world with rumbling skyscrapers and shattered glass. You control a nameless, suited man, running for his life from the impending doom that surrounds him.

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