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Game · Arcade runner · 2024
Driftcourse
Thread a paper glider through a canyon that never ends.
- Play rating
- 4.5
- Time to soft launch
- 9 wks
- Daily races
- 2.3 / player
Overview
A fast, tilt-and-tap endless runner with daily seeded courses and asynchronous ghost races against friends. Built small and quick, then grown through weekly updates.
The challenge
Ship a polished soft launch in nine weeks and find the retention hook before scaling.
What we did
- 01Soft launch in three markets with weekly A/B tested tuning
- 02Daily seeded courses so every player races the same canyon
- 03Ghost replays stored as compact input streams, under 6 KB per run
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Emberline