What you will find are thought-provoking games that encourage you to ponder on the human experience. You won't find any resource-management or mindless slash and dash games in Jake Elliott's portfolio. You score points for keeping the skier from crashing for as long as possible, plus by performing jumps and acrobatics. Create a sharp rise in the course and the skier will perform a jump. Create a slope and the skier will start skiing down it. You have to create it by clicking and dragging on the game space. But the ski slope does not actually exist when you start the game. You play the part of a skier about to set off down the ski course.
It is a real gender-bender of a game, brilliantly mixing the fast paced action of running games like Canabalt with the world-creation features of physics games like Free Rider.
Solipskier is, quite simply, one of the most sensational games to come out of the flash scene in recent years. And, anyway, what is skiing but running for rich people. But the game is clearly inspired by Canabalt (the legendary running game) and it is so brilliant that we would have felt guilty leaving it out.
Strictly speaking, Solipskier is not actually a running game (you ski rather than run) so perhaps should not have been included in this list.
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