Escalation is a touch-screen driven racing game for mobile devices, where players race to the finish line at the top of a 6-lane wide escalator.
You play as a salary-man late for work, which leads you to furiously switching lanes past obstacles (i.e. slow people who don't move aside on escalators). It is set in the future, with ridiculously long escalators like in the Jetsons, and to throw in a good measure of competition, you race against other late-for-work salary men and women.
Controls consist of two gestures:
Each level you play against three A.I. characters. The lanes are fantastically long and wind to and fro like a crazy 6-lane water slide. This purpose of arriving at the finish line first is done by choosing the most efficient route possible, switching lanes to avoid obstacles or when lane s converge, switching to a shorter route.
Lanes which run in the opposite direction may seem like the shorter route, but may have less obstacles, or link up to shortcuts. Furthermore, going the same direction as your opponents makes it difficult to overtake them. All this considered, a certain level of tactics is required on top of rapid-tapping.
On the screen U.I. there is a countdown clock, showing the minimum time you must reach the finish line before you are unavoidably late, which also serves as a method to measure a players score.
Platform: Mobile device Android and iOS.
Target Audience: General audiences.
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