Tube dash

How to play Tube dash

Tube dash is an endless three-lane runner. Your character sprints forward at a steady speed that climbs over time. Use the left and right arrows or the A and D keys to switch lanes, the up arrow or the space bar to jump, and the down arrow or the S key to slide. On a phone, swipe up to jump, swipe down to slide and swipe sideways to switch lanes. A tap also counts as a quick jump. Watch for four obstacle types: short red walls you have to jump over, yellow overhead bars you have to slide under, blue pillars that block the whole lane, and orange carriages that drift sideways into your lane as you approach. Coins give you score and fill your stash. Pick up a magnet to suck nearby coins toward you for six seconds, a jet pack to fly over everything for five seconds and auto-collect coins, or a score multiplier to double every point you earn for six seconds. One hit and the run ends. The game saves your best score and best distance on your device.

Tips

• Commit to a lane before the obstacle reaches you, half-switches still count as collisions
• A slide cancels a jump and a jump cancels a slide so you can chain inputs
• Jet packs are the best moment for a multiplier, fly through a coin line for big numbers
• Trains start off-lane and drift into the lane as you approach, the safe lane changes as you get closer
• Pillars never move, switch lanes well in advance
• Magnets only pull coins, not power-ups, so you still have to grab boosts directly
• The speed climbs about 0.4 metres per second every ten seconds, the late game is mostly about reading the lane ahead
• On a phone, swipes outside the play area do not register, swipe inside the canvas

About Tube dash

Tube dash is our take on the lane-based endless runner that took over phones a decade ago. Subway scenes, three lanes, jumps and slides, scrolling coins, brief power-ups. We wanted a second 3D game in the arcade with a totally different feel from Crypt rush, so this one trades the dark first-person dungeon for a bright trailing-camera tube and a chunky low-poly look. Everything is procedural, we generate fresh segments ahead of you and recycle the ones behind so the track is technically infinite. The 3D scene renders into a small canvas and gets scaled up with image-rendering pixelated, matching the rest of the arcade.

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