Jason Rohrer is going to break into your house.

You have time to prepare- then, you must find out if you can survive 5 minutes trapped in a room with Jason Rohrer.

Complete the game and you get to play my acclaimed art piece "passage".

"You're older than you've ever been and now you're even older." - They Might Be Giants, "Older"

Introducing Passagebalt™

Passage™. Canabalt™. Two masterpieces of the indie game world. But what would happen were they to join forces? Passagebalt™ finally answers this question... and the answer is "the most amazing game of all time".

Passagebalt™. Because Life is a Race™.

Versions:

Windows (original version, features full SID player)

Windows (no music)

HTML5 (SD)

HTML5 (HD)

Known issues:

In the original version, SXMS (or possibly Game Maker) is super-buggy. If you get an error message, try playing one of the other versions! The game also starts out of focus, probably because of the SID player I implemented out of pure foolish desire.

The HTML5 versions run a lot slower, but I feel they still communicate the idea sufficiently. The font is also way uglier in the HTML5 version as GameMaker HTML5 refused to scale it to the size I wanted. The music doesn't seem to loop in these versions, so try not to play for more than 2 minutes!

Attempt to credit everyone I ripped off:

Jason Rohrer
Creator of Passage, main character sprites, title font, concept

Adam Saltsman (Adam Atomic)
Creator of Canabalt, background / environmental art, sound effects, concept

Eric Johnson
Canabalt iPhone port

Danny Baranowsky (danny B)
Original music for Canabalt

Mikkel Hastrup (encore)
Commodore 64 song #1: 'Canabalt'

Niklas Sjösvärd (Zabutom)
Commodore 64 song #2: 'Space Fish'

Johannes Bjerregaard
Commodore 64 song #3: 'Rockbuster'

Jeroen Tel
Commodore 64 song #4: 'Golden Axe'

Tomas Danko
Commodore 64 song #5: 'Plastic Pop'

Alan Petrik (Factor6)
Commodore 64 song #6: 'Magic Afternoon'

Rob Hubbard
Commodore 64 song #7: 'Nemesis the Warlock'

Edwin van Santen
Commodore 64 song #8: 'PCW-Tune '88'

Thomas Mogensen (DRAX) & Søren Lund (Jeff)
Commodore 64 song #9: 'Beyond'

Anders Carlsson (Goto80)
Commodore 64 song #0: 'Datahell'

Mark Overmars
Game Maker 7

Brandon Rohrer (Shaltif)
SXMS WinAmp Wrapper for Game Maker

Nullsoft
WinAmp

Peter Pawlowski
Nullsoft DirectSound Output

Zbigniew Ross
in_sidplay2 WinAmp module

Simon White
libsidplay2 engine

Dag Lem
reSID library

Zeh Fernando
Nokia Cellphone FC Small font

Panya Thanyaprasertkul
bmp2ico

Sergio Cornaga
Director, additional art, concept, 'coding', 'design'

A decidedly Andrew W.K.-styled alternate take on Jason Rohrer's indie artgame classic artgame indie.

Sonic The Hedgehog, running through the passage!
Sonic The Hedgehog, running through the passage!

Pulp Passage, or Passage Fiction, I really don't know.

An incredible satire of Jason Rohrer's Passage.

All this talk of Passage made me do it. GOTTA GO FAST!

An action-packed sequel to http://www.glorioustrainwrecks.com/node/2623
Hold Z to feel emotions.
Possibly the worst idea for a game I've ever had.
Um.

short silly passage remix