Attention Span Maximum

Three arcade games are stacked on one screen. Only one of them is live.

SUBWAY RUN, SOAP CARVER and MEME MATCH sit one above the other, and whichever one you are playing hides a switch token. Grab it and you are thrown into another game, mid-run, whether you were ready or not. The token is colour-coded, so you get a split second to read where you are about to land.

Stay in one game too long and your Hype Meter starts haemorrhaging. The screen border heats up from cool neon to alarm red, the music climbs from 135 BPM to 175, the melody drops out for a driving bassline, and everything shifts up a semitone as you circle the drain. Scoring is the only thing that refills the meter. So you cannot camp, and you cannot panic.

Chain switches back to back and the whole run multiplies: two links doubles everything you score, four links triggers a Hyper-Focus combo worth five times and three seconds of immunity.

THE THREE GAMES

- SUBWAY RUN: three lanes, trains, barriers and crossing gates. Swipe to change lane, swipe up to jump, down to slide, and hoover up every coin you can reach.

- SOAP CARVER: drag a blade across a block of patterned soap and shave it layer by layer, revealing the colour strata underneath. Clear a whole block for the big bonus.

- MEME MATCH: swipe tiles into their neighbours to line up three or more. Cascades pay progressively more.

FIVE LEVELS OF ESCALATION

Level 1 is trains and barriers. Level 2 twists the soap into shapes that refuse to be cut in straight lines. Level 3 starts freezing tiles that can only be broken by matching them. Level 4 begins swapping the three screens around mid-run, so muscle memory stops working. Level 5 is endless.

Then it tallies you up on the SIGMA BOARD, where the top three are GIGACHAD, the next seven are SIGMA, and everybody else is, regrettably, CASUAL.

WHAT IT DOES NOT DO

No ads. No in-app purchases. No accounts, no sign-in, no tracking, no analytics. It asks for zero permissions and has no network access at all, so the whole thing works in aeroplane mode. It is 3 MB.

Every sound is synthesised on the fly instead of shipped as audio files, which is why the soundtrack can change tempo and key in real time as your hype drains.

Built for people whose attention span is a rumour.