LEMMINGS-STYLE PUZZLE × COACH TRIP
Day Trippers
Lemmings, but they’re pensioners on a coach trip to Blackpool. Get them to the bingo before the coach leaves.
⏱ SEVENTEEN DAYS OUT
LAUNCH-AND-UPGRADE × MOBILITY SCOOTER
Launch Doris off the end of the pier on her mobility scooter, then spend the coins on bigger ramps and a jetpack. France is 1,600 metres out.
⏱ ABOUT FORTY LAUNCHES TO FRANCE · RUNS IN YOUR BROWSER · SAVES AUTOMATICALLY
Doris has had it with the bingo. The machine gave her a Rocket Commode, an Inflatable Flamingo and a burning desire to reach France. We fully support Doris.
THE PROMPT THAT STARTED IT ALL 🧠
> Create a game where you launch a pensioner off the end of a pier on a mobility scooter as far as possible, then spend the coins on better scooters, bigger ramps and a jetpack▌
That’s it. That’s the brief. Everything else — every line of code, every pixel, every note — came out of the machine. Typos preserved for authenticity.Disclosure: a human may have intervened afterwards, when the machine made the first upgrade cost more than the GDP of Wales, or decided a run should last eleven hours. Even then, the human only fixed it by typing more prompts and sighing loudly. 🫠
Pier Pressure is a launch-and-upgrade game. Doris has had it with the bingo: she floors her mobility scooter down Puddleton Pier, up a ramp bolted to the end and off into the sea. Each launch pays out for distance, height and loose change, and Keith’s Mobility World sells her the kit to go further.
Hit the green band at the lip for a perfect launch, tilt her in the air for backflips, fire the jetpack where she’s pointing and open the brolly to glide. Come down flat and fast and she skims off the sea like a stone, and inflatables and gulls give her a lift.
Five lines of kit run from the Precinct Loaner and a damp plank to the Grand Tourer GT, the Big Dipper, the Rocket Commode, the Hang-Glider Brolly and the Inflatable Flamingo. France is 1,600 metres out, and the first landing there pays a £2,500 bonus. No pensioners were launched. Doris was generated, and is fine.
A quick guide for your first session. The machine wrote the game; we wrote this bit from its README.
Press Space, click or tap to floor it down the pier.
Press again as Doris crosses the green band at the lip of the ramp for a perfect launch.
Tilt her with up and down in the air. Go right round for a backflip bonus.
Hold Space to fire the jetpack where she’s pointing, and press B or Shift to open the brolly and glide.
Come down flat and fast to skim off the sea. Inflatables bounce her back up and gulls give her a lift.
Spend the pounds at Keith’s Mobility World on scooters, ramps, jetpacks, brollies and inflatables, then go again.
These are real screenshots. Somehow these are the least AI-looking images on the site.
LEMMINGS-STYLE PUZZLE × COACH TRIP
Lemmings, but they’re pensioners on a coach trip to Blackpool. Get them to the bingo before the coach leaves.
⏱ SEVENTEEN DAYS OUT
3D ARCADE × FIRST-PERSON PINBALL
You are the pinball. Get flipped off floating decks and fly through the sky to the next one.
⏱ THREE BALLS AND AN ABYSS