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A night escape across the city rooftops, seen from the side. Searchlights on towers behind the buildings sweep the roofs, and every moment you spend in a beam fills the alarm. Anything tall between you and a lamp hides you, so the shadows of water tanks, chimneys and hanging sheets are where you want to run, but the shadows are also where the clutter is, while the open, lit rows are clear. Switch between three rows across each roof, jump the gaps between buildings, slide under washing lines, dodge crossing beams and watchtowers that snap from spot to spot, and slip a hunting helicopter. Collect keys for extra points and grab a Smoke Puff or a Fuse Pull to help you along. Your score is the distance you run plus the keys you collect.
Genre: Endless Runner
Difficulty: Easy to start, then faster, with more and sharper searchlights the further you run
Sweeping towers swing their beams along the roofs, across the rows or round in a loop. Crossing pairs stand either side of a stretch and sweep their beams towards each other, so they meet in the middle.
Watchtowers stand closer and higher. They hold their beam on one spot, then swing quickly to the next. A dashed ring on the roof shows where a watchtower will swing next, and it firms up just before the swing.
Every so often a HELICOPTER INBOUND warning flashes, and a helicopter flies in from behind and hovers over the roofs. Its beam swings back and forth along the run through your position, and follows you from row to row a little late.
A red dashed band on the roof shows which row its beam is aimed at, and arrows show which way it is drifting. Change row just before the beam reaches you to slip it, or keep something tall between you and the helicopter. After a while it gives up and flies off.
Keys come in trails along a stretch's open row, which is usually in the light, in arcs over units and washing lines to jump for, and in arcs over street gaps. Taking keys quickly one after another plays a rising run of notes.
A Smoke Puff hides you in a cloud for 4.5 seconds. While it lasts, the beams can't see you, so the alarm can't rise.
A Fuse Pull cuts the power to the searchlight towers from just behind you to 60 m ahead. They flicker out and stay dark. The helicopter has its own power, so it keeps hunting.
The first power-up appears about 140 m into a run, then another every 170 to 260 m, always on open roof between obstacles.
Get out of a beam that had you, with the alarm at least half full, and the game calls it out: SLIPPED IT! Slips close together climb in pitch.
Slips are for the thrill only. They do not change your score.
Your speed rises the further you run. Over the first 3,000 m the alarm fills faster and cools more slowly, and the searchlights come closer together, sweep faster and swing further. They also stand higher and nearer, so the shadows are shorter, and their pools are wider. Crossing pairs and watchtowers become more common, watchtowers hold each spot for less time, and helicopters come more often.
Every run is a new course, laid out in patterns that always leave a way through: tall things never close all three rows too close together to change row between them, and glass never sits where a fair jump comes down.
However far you get, every searchlight can be beaten. No beam moves along the roofs faster than half your running speed, so you always run through a pool rather than carry it with you. A pool never covers all three rows at once, so there is always a row to dodge into. There is always a stretch of dark roof between one tower's reach and the next, and where a helicopter is going to hunt, the towers are few and gentle.
Your best score, your screen shake and sound settings, how many runs you have played (so the control hints only show on your first couple of runs), and whether you have already seen the helicopter tip are saved on Unihfy Games in this browser.
Developer · Game Reviewer
Kaushik Hirpara is a full-stack developer and game reviewer at Unihfy Games. He does most of the work of bringing games to the site — adapting them to run properly in a browser, getting them working on phones, playing them, and writing up what players need to know.
Unihfy Games
Spotlight Sprint is an original game created and published by Unihfy Games. We continue to improve it with new features, gameplay enhancements, and platform optimizations.
Designed and built in-house by Kaushik Hirpara at Unihfy Games. All code, art and sound are original.
Run as far across the rooftops as you can without being spotted. Your score is the metres you run plus 25 points for every key you collect. The run ends if the alarm fills, if you fall into a gap, or if you hit a wall too high to climb.
Keep something tall, like a water tank, a chimney or a hanging sheet, between you and the lamp. Its shadow on the roof shows where you are hidden. The game checks your legs and hips, so your lower body needs to be in the shadow.
Knocking into something makes a noise, and noise adds to the alarm. Running into units, chimneys, tanks, antennas or washing lines, landing on a skylight or scrambling up a ledge all raise it a little and slow you down.
At the start of a run, about two seconds in one beam fills an empty alarm, and the further you run the quicker it fills, down to a little over a second. Two beams on you fill it faster. Once you are hidden the alarm holds for a moment, then cools, and it cools more slowly later in a run, so it pays to stay in the shadows for a while after a close call.
Watch the red dashed band on the roof: it shows which row the beam is aimed at, and the beam follows your row a little late. Change row just before the beam swings over you, or get something tall between you and the helicopter. It leaves after a while.
Swipe up to move one row back, towards the far wall, and swipe down to move one row forward. Tap to jump and swipe right to slide.
A Smoke Puff hides you completely for 4.5 seconds. A Fuse Pull cuts the searchlight towers on the stretch ahead, but not the helicopter.
No. It is called out when you escape a beam with the alarm high, but your score is only distance and keys.
Press Esc or P, or tap the pause button at the top right. The pause screen shows your run so far and has Resume, Settings and Menu. On the title screen, the Settings window opens the same settings for screen shake and sound.
Yes. Your best score and settings are kept in this browser on Unihfy Games, and NEW BEST lights up on the game over screen when you beat it. Clearing your browser data removes them.
Spotlight Sprint was designed and built in-house at Unihfy Games by Kaushik Hirpara. Its code, art and sound are all original, and everything you see and hear is generated by the game itself.
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