8 Characters, 4 Power-Ups: Inside Cockroach Surfers' Design
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Most free browser runner games give you one character and call it done. Cockroach Surfers didn't take that shortcut: eight unlockable characters, four power-ups with genuinely different effects, and a difficulty curve that was tuned on purpose rather than left to chance. Here's what's actually in the game, and the thinking behind it. The 8 characters Every character in Cockroach Surfers is unlocked with coins collected during runs, no timers, no ads to unlock faster, no separate currency to bu