Robot Unicorn Attack is the newest game up on adultswim.com. It's like Canabalt for the trapper keeper generation. The player sends their unicorn bounding across purple floating platforms, grabbing fairies and smashing stars for points. With each star you smash or fairy you grab without missing any, the point value of each increases.
The game also adds double-jumping and dashing to the Canabalt control scheme, and therefore a second button, so while it lacks the perfect zen of a great game of Canabalt, RUA has a degree of frenzy all it's own. The game moves faster and faster the higher your score climbs, until your inevitable demise. It reminds me of Tetris or Lumines late in a game, where you know the end is coming, and no matter how well you play you're never quite in control.
Last but not least Robot Unicorn Attack has a truly perfect soundtrack, a syrupy 80's fantasy that matches this game as well as (and more hilarious than) the woeful techno beats pursuing Canabalt players. I'm sure not-so-friendly comparisons will be drawn between the two, but the emphasis here on point multipliers really makes it a different kind of game. Try it for yourself.
Fun lil' game!
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