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Penguin Dash
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About the game
Penguin Dash puts a penguin on a sheet of ice that goes on and on above the water, and your job is to slide it from the start line to the finish. The penguin does not stop when you let go: it keeps its speed, so steering is a matter of small pushes and of planning the stop before you arrive. Some patches of ice are fast and speed it up.
Presents lie on the ice and add to your score; reaching the finish earns 50 points and moves you to the next level, out of ten. If the penguin slides off the edge it falls in the water and the level restarts. The clock keeps running through all of it.
It looks like a light arcade game and plays like a small physics puzzle: the levels are about how a sliding body behaves, and getting good is learning to let it drift.
Playing it here
Click Play and the game starts in the page, with a small bar above it for the score, pause, restart and sound. On a phone or tablet, tilt the device; the game asks for it. Nothing is installed and nothing is sent to other sites; the best score is not saved.
Controls
| Input | Action |
|---|---|
| Arrow keys | Push the penguin in that direction |
| Tilt (phone or tablet) | Slide the penguin the way you tilt |
A few things worth knowing
Tap, do not hold. Short taps keep the speed under control; holding a key builds speed you cannot cancel.
Look for fast ice. It saves seconds, but it also makes it harder to stop.
Credits and licence
Penguin Dash is one of the mini-games of a holiday web app that Google published as open source (the santa-tracker-web repository). The code is under the Apache License 2.0 and the images and sounds are under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0, credited to Google LLC and the contributors of the project. The game is the same as the one Google published: for this site only the page around it was replaced (score bar, pause, sound), fonts and libraries are served from this site, and links back to the original app were removed, so the page never contacts other sites. The licence texts and the list of changes are in the licence file of the game. This is an unofficial copy and is not made, endorsed or sponsored by Google.
FAQ
I have no keyboard, only a mouse. The game wants arrow keys or a tilt sensor; with a mouse alone it cannot be played.
Does it save my progress? No, each game starts at level 1.
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