Ninja Run

Where ancient Japanese folklore collides with a pulsing synthwave cyberspace. Run the waveform. Slice the shadows. Master time itself.

🌌 The Premise

Trapped inside a hyper-dimensional mainframe corrupted by mythical anomalies, you are the last cyber-shinobi. The neon tracks ahead don’t just carry you—they are forged in real-time from raw acoustic waveforms. Every bassline builds your path; every snare drop summons ancient Yōkai spirits hungry for your code.

Draw your energy katana, bend time with Chrono-Focus, and slice through 36 adrenaline-fueled levels where rhythm is your ultimate weapon.

🔥 Key Features

• 🎵 Waveform-Synthesized Procedural Levels: Every level is procedurally generated from the master audio frequency spectrum. High bass kick drums spawn hairpin 90° turns and high-risk T-junctions, while transient snares dynamically position hazards.
• ⚔️ High-Precision Katana Combat: Slice through 7 distinct Yōkai enemy archetypes—from hovering flaming Lanterns and swift Tengu to towering Oni, spectral Witches, and rogue cyber-Samurai.
• ⏳ Chrono-Focus Bullet Time: When the beat accelerates to breakneck speed, trigger time dilation (0.45×0.45\times0.45× speed) to navigate dense barricade corridors, dodge high gates, and strike lethal blows in glorious slow-motion.
• 🎨 Psychedelic Retro-Futuristic Shaders: Immersive Forward+ visuals featuring audio-reactive UV ripple distortion waves, dynamic chromatic aberration, Fresnel rim-lit silhouettes, and atmospheric 360° synthwave skies shifting across Cyber, Inferno, Frost, and Dusk palettes.
• 🪙 Koban Economy & Combos: Snag gleaming Koban coins to build massive score multipliers, retrieve Chrono Hourglasses to refuel bullet-time charges, and climb the local leaderboards.
• 🎧 36 Original Soundtrack Masterpieces: A massive original synthwave, retrowave, and electronic soundtrack accompanying every run.

🎮 Controls

Action	Keyboard / Mouse	Gamepad
Switch Lanes	A / D or Left / Right Arrow	D-Pad Left / Right or Left Stick
Katana Slash	Spacebar or F	Button Bottom (A / Cross)
Chrono-Focus (Slow-Mo)	Shift	Left Trigger / L2
90° Corner Turns	A / D inside yellow Turn Zones	D-Pad Left / Right
Pause / Menu	Escape	Start / Options

⚙️ Developer & Tech Highlights

Built entirely with Godot 4.7 Forward+ and Jolt Physics 3D for responsive, framerate-independent kinematic lane controls verified from 30 to 144 Hz.

Created by Leonid Medovyy (@leouofa). Download below, plug in your best headphones, and ride the neon wave!