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East Africa

The Great Migration

An auto-scrolling journey with a herd of wildebeest through eight zones of the Serengeti, from the Ngorongoro Crater to the Maasai Mara, past crocodiles, lions and drought.

Played in: Tanzania · Kenya

— The board

Play against the machine. Your best score is kept in this browser only — nothing is sent to the archive.

Click or tap to play. Keyboard works too where the game uses it.

— What is playing against you

Nothing plays against you — obstacles arrive on a timer.

No opponent — a timer or a spawner
Nothing is playing against you. There is no opponent in this game at all — no model of you, no plan, no choices being weighed. What feels like an adversary is a spawn timer and a random number generator: obstacles appear on a schedule that tightens as your score rises. This is worth noticing precisely because it can feel otherwise. Difficulty that rises with time reads as an opponent responding to you, and it is not.

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What this version is not

The route and the eight named zones are real, and roughly a million wildebeest do make this circuit each year. The game is an arcade obstacle course: the herd is eight animals rather than a million, the hazards arrive on a timer, and the crossing of the Mara River is a set piece rather than the mass drowning event it actually is.

— Sources

No sources have been attached to this entry yet. Until they are, treat everything above as provisional.

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