About the game
Sprint across rainy neon rooftops as a cyber-ninja: jump the gaps, slice the drones and grab data shards in an endless run that gets faster as you go.
Player guide
What it is
Neon Rooftop Runner is an endless side-scrolling runner set on the rooftops of a rain-soaked neon city at night. You play a cyber-ninja in a dark armored suit with a glowing visor, sprinting from roof to roof while patrol drones try to knock you off the skyline.
There are no levels to unlock and no lives to save up: every run starts fresh, the city keeps scrolling, and the pace rises the longer you survive. Your score climbs with distance, sliced drones and the glowing data shards you collect, and the game remembers your best run on this device.
How to play
- Jump the gaps between buildings. You can jump a second time in mid-air, which is how you clear the widest gaps.
- Slice drones with your blade before they reach you. There are two kinds: small round scout drones and wide bomber drones, and they come at different heights, so watch which line each one is flying.
- Grab the glowing data shards for bonus points, and watch for the Neon Dash bursts that light you up mid-run.
- If you miss a roof or a drone hits you, the run ends with a “Signal lost” screen showing your score and your best.
Controls
- Keyboard: Space, W or Up to jump (press again in the air to double jump); X, Z or Right to slash; Down to drop faster; P or Esc to pause, M to mute; Enter or Space to start or run again.
- Touch: tap the left half of the screen to jump (twice for a double jump) and the right half to slash; tap anywhere to start.
- Click the game first so it gets the keyboard.
Tips
- Save the double jump for the second half of a long gap; using it straight away leaves you nothing to correct a short first jump.
- Slash early rather than late. The blade reaches a little ahead of you, and a late slash usually means the drone has already hit.
- Use Down to cut a jump short when a drone is flying high over the next roof.
How it was made in Gamuki
The game started as a single prompt in the Gamuki studio: an endless runner with a cyber-ninja, two kinds of drones, a pickup and a city background. The agent wrote a short plan, drew a turnaround sheet for the ninja so every later image stayed on-model, then drew the ninja, the drones, the pickups and the night skyline as separate pieces of art with Nano Banana.
With the art approved, the agent wrote the game itself as a browser game, added music and sound effects, and rebuilt it several times from short notes in the chat until it played well.
