Pixel AI Dash

Please donate at: buymeacoffee.com/jordancastro. Thank you!!

About game

Pixel Ai Dash is a daily dynamic platformer inspired by the daily word challenge "Wordle". Every day at (00:00 UTC) there is a new level generated for every player to experience and enjoy! 

Pixel Ai Dash is a mobile (Android & iOS) exclusive. This is a web demo which works on Windows/Mac/Linux devices. Have fun and enjoy the experience!

How to use

This is a web version for the game which uses

- W,A,S,D or arrow keys for movement.

- Just press play and get going!

For mobile, please download via Google Play or at EpochTech.

If using Mac please enable "Metal" as the "Angle Graphics Backend" on your Chrome browser. 

Thank you!

Developer note

Pixel Ai Dash is a love letter to the 2000s-2010s video game era. That was the golden era. I have always loved video games. I can remember spending all summer on Batman Arkham City just gliding along the map and beating up enemies. In recent years after covid 19 hit, I have noticed a decline in video game quality. Realize when I say quality I don't speak of the graphics (which are the best they have ever been!) but rather novelty. There is nothing new.

I am aware that there are new games popping up constantly. And some really good ones at that. But they are not the majority. For every great game there are 1,000 below average games. And we (the gaming community) have no one to blame but ourselves.

What happened to the time when video games were regarded as the height of human ingenuity? Now anyone can slap a below average game together without ever having to be aware of how physics, input, low level programming methods, etc. This is the reason many gamers experience some sort of nostalgia. But not knowing what they are really nostalgic about. 

The games made in the golden era 2000-2010s were developed by engineers who squeeeezed out every last bit of performance for their games to run. It was thanks to their genius that we now have the procedural generation techniques used to create Pixel Ai Dash.

As time goes on and technology gets better and better, I realize software will be made more easily and naturally than ever before. But this is not a good idea for video games. Video games are not meant to be made easily but they should be simple. This is what Pixel Ai Dash represents. A new era of video games.

Pixel Ai Dash uses procedural generation techniques which are inspired by FastNoiseLite. But, and I must emphasize this, Pixel Ai Dash uses it's own custom Machine Learning (AI) algorithm to create the worlds called FastTerrain. The algorithm uses a JSON config file to determine how a level should look, what enemies should be there, colors, player spawn, flag location, etc.  Every part of the level is created via FastTerrain. 

My vision with Pixel Ai Dash is to show what can be done when we (humanity) stop trying to take short cuts. Why do we need to have things easy? Why can't we suffer to achieve what we want? Why do I have to spend hours a day on social media essentially selling my soul to big tech corporations? I don't!

Steve Jobs said, "The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do". 

Will Pixel AI Dash change the world? Probably not, but it's a start.