Genetic Drift

Genetic Drift is a 2D platformer by Dancing Banana Studios built on Box2D and RequireJS, with its game logic written in CoffeeScript. The hook is the clone: you can duplicate yourself at will, and every clone is a real physical body, so a bridge you build with copies of yourself is also a body that can be pushed, crushed or left behind.

Levels are a mixture of platforming, pressure plates, doors and switches, and the clone count is a resource rather than a convenience - a room that looks impossible is usually solvable with the right body in the right place. It also has a level editor, so the campaign is not the end of it.

How to Play

1. Move and jump with the arrow keys.
2. Press the clone key to spawn a copy of yourself in place.
3. Walk into pressure plates to open doors.
4. Regroup with the key that pulls your clones to your current position.

Controls

• Left / Right - move
• Up - jump
• J or C - clone
• K or X - regroup clones
• E - clone editor

Tips

A clone left standing in a doorway is a wall you can build for free. When a route looks blocked, try cloning a body into the gap rather than looking for a jump.

Open Source & License

No license file in upstream repository (bundled Box2D and boxbox are MIT, from https://github.com/incompl/boxbox) It is integrated here as a self-hosted build, running entirely in your browser from /games/genetic-drift/ with no external services.

• Original source: https://github.com/DancingBanana/genetic-drift