Space Obby

The pitch

A fun and lighthearted platformer set in outer space. Join other intrepid astronauts as you adventure to the far reaching corners of a destroyed space station, using your trusty jetpack to navigate the floating wreckage. Featuring six unlockable characters and collectable battery cells scattered across four massive levels -- do you have what it takes to reach the end?

Controls & how it runs

Objective: Explore the space station wreckage, collect power cells to open doors to new levels and unlock characters. Mouse and Keyboard Controls: Movement: WASD or arrow keys Jump: Spacebar Jetpack : Hold spacebar midair Camera Rotation: Move mouse Camera Zoom: Scroll wheel Settings Menu: P key Mobile Touch Controls: Movement: Touch and drag the on-screen joystick on the left of the screen Jump: Tap jump button on the right of the screen Jetpack : Hold jump button on the right of the screen Camera Rotation: Swipe anywhere on the screen Camera Zoom: Pinch anywhere on the screen

Getting a run going takes exactly one press: Press start, up top, and the game boots inside this page — nothing downloads in the background and no form wants your details before the first jump. The cabinet is drawn for a landscape (wide) screen and listens to mouse, keyboard or touch, whichever the game prefers. This cabinet runs wide: landscape screens flatter it, so tip a phone on its side or hand it a tablet or desktop and let it stretch out. Given a fullscreen button, use it — scores look better at full size, that's just science.

Pro tips for arcade cabinets

Treat your first run as a scouting mission. Arcade cabinets hide their cruelty in the second minute, not the first — learn where the difficulty spikes before you start chasing numbers.
Small scores compound. Grab the easy pickups on every pass instead of gambling the whole run on one heroic line; heroes respawn, banked points don't evaporate.
Watch the edges of the screen. In classic arcade design the next problem almost always enters from somewhere you weren't looking — build the habit of scanning the borders.

Space Obby — quick-fire questions

Does Space Obby cost anything to play?

Not a token. The cabinet is free from the first run to the five-hundredth — no wallet, no sign-up, no toll booth hiding three levels in. The adverts around the page are what keep the floor's lights on.

What sort of game is Space Obby?

It stands on our Arcade row — that's the family it plays most like. The pitch above is the publisher's own rundown of what it throws at you and what it hands back.

Can I play Space Obby on my phone?

Happily, yes. It runs inside the browser on phones and tablets the same way it does on a computer. This cabinet runs wide: landscape screens flatter it, so tip a phone on its side or hand it a tablet or desktop and let it stretch out.

Do I need to install anything first?

Nothing whatsoever. Space Obby is an HTML5 game: hit the start button and it boots on this page, and shutting the tab sweeps the cabinet clean behind you.

Before you wander off

Personal best banked, or still chasing it? Either way the full Arcade row is powered on and waiting — The main floor: 415 cabinets of pure arcade stock — the quick, the loud and the gloriously unfair. If it beeps, flashes and dares you to beat a number, it lives on this row.