Endless runner
Endless Runner With Procedural Difficulty Ramp
Tested with Google AI Studio · produced Cyber Dash
The Prompt
Create a complete one-button endless runner in a single self-contained HTML file (inline CSS/JS, no libraries, no external assets). Core spec: - The player character auto-runs; a single input (tap / click / spacebar / up arrow) makes it jump. Double jump allowed once per airtime. - Obstacles spawn off-screen right and scroll left with increasing speed. Mix low obstacles (jump over) and gaps/holes (jump across). - Score increases with distance; show best score of the session. - Difficulty curve: speed increases ~8% every 10 seconds, capped at a sane maximum; obstacle density ramps with speed but never creates impossible patterns. Guarantee a fair minimum gap between obstacles. - Ground collisions use simple AABB checks. One hit = game over overlay with score + restart on tap. - Visual style: [describe, e.g. "a dark synthwave desert with parallax mountains"]. - Must run at 960x540 internal resolution, responsive and letterboxed; must work with touch on mobile. After the code, briefly explain your difficulty-ramping rules so a designer could tweak the numbers. Fixed tuning numbers: 240 px/s base speed, 320px guaranteed minimum gap between obstacles, double jump at 85% of full jump impulse.
What This Prompt Produces
The explicit "never impossible" constraint is what makes this prompt work — it forces the AI to reason about fairness, not just spawning. Cyber Dash was generated this way, and Gemini 3 in Google AI Studio (our current bench as of October 2026) follows the ramp rules even more cleanly.
Modification Tips
- Numbers like "8% every 10 seconds" are respected well; leaving them out gives you a flat or brutal game.
- Ask for parallax background layers in a follow-up prompt — it makes the run feel much richer for free.
- For mobile, follow up with: "Make the tap target the whole lower half of the screen."
- Pin the physics as fixed numbers like the ones above — Gemini 3 respects exact values, and follow-up tweaks become one-line changes.
The Game This Prompt Produced
Want to try it? Open Google AI Studio, paste the prompt, and you'll have a playable game in minutes. When you're happy with the result, submit it to Daily AI Games.