Scamper Lane

About the game

Hop a small animal across roads, rivers and railways, one square at a time.

Sixteen small animals, eight places and forty crossings. Hop one square at a time across meadow roads, harbour tramlines, frozen rivers, desert railways and a neon circuit where everything is fast. Cars squash, water drowns, trains do not wait, and a bank of mist rolls up the lane behind you and never stops. Ride a log, time a gap, gather acorns and bring home a duckling, a fox kit, a panda cub or a fawn. Includes an endless run for every place, a lane builder for making your own crossing, eleven languages and full gamepad support. Runs entirely offline in a single file.

How to play

1. Swipe or tap to hop forward, back, left or right. Every hop moves exactly one square, so you are choosing squares, not steering.
2. Cars, trucks, buses and trams. Watch a lane for a moment and the gap will show itself. A truck is long; a gap behind one is not.
3. You cannot swim. Land on a log, a lily pad, a floe or a barge, ride it, and hop off before it carries you out of the lane.
4. The lights on both sides flash before a train comes. When they flash, the track is not a place to stand.
5. A bank of mist rolls up the lane behind you and never stops. Standing still is not a plan.
6. Gather them as you go. They buy new critters, and each crossing has a target worth a star.
7. Three lives for a whole crossing, and nothing gives them back. Get caught and you resume from the last checkpoint. Endless gives you one.
8. Change the view with the camera button, C or V, or the gamepad's View button (or RB): chase, close-up, face-cam, high or low. In the face-cam you watch your critter coming toward you, so the arrows follow the screen: forward is down. Arrows at the edge warn of traffic you cannot see yet.

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