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Crowd runner playable ads

Math gates are a hook anyone gets in a second: +10 or ×2, pick a side. Crowd runners are also easy to make unwinnable by accident, so balance matters more than art.

Play them here

Made with Playbaker, next to reference builds from the genre playbook. Tap a card to play it in a phone frame.

What makes a crowd runner playable work

From the studio’s crowd runner playbook: the rules the agents load before they build, and what went wrong in earlier builds.

  1. 01

    The number is the hero

    The crowd count floats above the runners and jumps at every gate. Good gates are wider and sit on the natural path.

  2. 02

    A rival to beat

    Mid-run a rival crowd about 60% the size of yours meets you head-on and cancels one for one, so the gates you picked pay off.

  3. 03

    Let a random player reach the end

    Our first version wiped a casual player by second 8. Now a hidden rescue gate appears if the crowd drops under six, so everyone sees the stairs and the boss.

  4. 04

    Hundreds of runners, one draw call

    The crowd is a single instanced mesh, so 200 runners stay smooth on a mid-range phone.

A 30-second beat sheet

What the player sees, in order. A playable that hits these beats ends before attention runs out.

  1. 0–2 sThe crowd is running, two gates ahead, a hand shows the drag
  2. 3–8 s+ and × gates grow the crowd fast
  3. 8–15 sSaws and minus gates at the sides, then the rival crowd
  4. 15–25 sMultiplier stairs; the crowd is thrown at the giant
  5. EndThe boss falls, then the end card

Start from this prompt

Swap in your store link, or describe your own game. Edit anything after the first build by asking for it.

Crowd runner starter prompt
Make a 3D crowd runner playable ad for my game: <your store link>. Drag to steer a crowd through +10 and ×2 gates, dodge a saw, beat a smaller rival crowd head-on, then finish on multiplier stairs against a giant boss and the end card.

One build, 10 exports

Every crowd runner build exports as a single file with its art, sound and libraries inside, packaged for each network.

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Crowd runner playable ads

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