{"id":9124,"date":"2009-09-04T12:47:02","date_gmt":"2009-09-04T11:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/friday-timewaster-canabalt\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:20:31","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:20:31","slug":"friday-timewaster-canabalt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/friday-timewaster-canabalt\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Timewaster: Canabalt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2009\/09\/canabalt.png\" title=\"canabalt.png\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2009\/09\/canabalt.png\" height=\"318\" width=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/adamatomic.com\/canabalt\/\">Canabalt <\/a><\/strong>is a pretty simple proposition &#8211; you have to make a daring escape. From where or what you&#8217;re never told, although the scenery might give you some clues. It&#8217;s a one button game &#8211; your tuxedo-ed protagonist runs automatically, and you need to jump to avoid falls and obstacles. It gets progressively faster, and if you die, you start again. It&#8217;s not clear if there&#8217;s an end, or you are just trying to get a high score (in meters). It doesn&#8217;t matter &#8211; with its great music, sound effects, and enigmatic black and white widescreen presentation &#8211; it&#8217;s just cool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canabalt is a pretty simple proposition &#8211; you have to make a daring escape. From where or what you&#8217;re never told, although the scenery might give you some clues. It&#8217;s a one button game &#8211; your tuxedo-ed protagonist runs automatically, and you need to jump to avoid falls and obstacles. It gets progressively faster, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/friday-timewaster-canabalt\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Friday Timewaster: Canabalt&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-9124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2019"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":335386,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9124\/revisions\/335386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9124"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=9124"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=9124"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=9124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}