Trap floor

How to play Trap floor

Twelve small rooms, one door in each, and a floor that is actively out to get you. Move with the arrow keys or A and D, jump with space or W, and use the pad at the bottom of the screen on a phone. Nothing is signposted the first time round: a plain stone tile might hide a spike, crumble under your feet, drop you straight through or fire a dart at you. When a trap gets you, it gets marked with a red cross for good, so every death makes the room a little more readable. The rooms get nastier as you go, from a single hidden spike in the opening corridor to a floor that crumbles the moment you touch it. Deaths are the score, so the goal is to finish all twelve rooms with as few as you can manage.

Tips

• Slow down, almost every death here comes from walking into a room at full speed
• Crumbling stone shakes before it goes, keep moving and you will make it across
• A wall that flashes red is about to fire, jump and it sails under you
• Marked traps stay marked between visits, so your second run is the one that counts

About Trap floor

There is a whole genre built on breaking the promise every platformer makes, which is that the floor is the floor. Trap floor is a small, friendly version of that idea. It is unfair on purpose, but it is unfair in a way that teaches: nothing kills you twice without warning, because the game permanently marks every trap you discover. That turns dying from a punishment into the only way to make a map, and it makes the second run through a room feel completely different from the first. Twelve rooms is short enough to finish in one sitting and long enough that a clean run is genuinely worth bragging about.

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