Any key to start/skip waiting screens.
➡️ Right Arrow to Speed up the loop while choosing the path.
➡️ During the waiting screen at the end of every success or fail, use Right Arrow to -recklessly- advance Level (added for testing purposes but you could use that to test your skills at advanced difficulty, no actual benefit to score obviously, you simply skip easier levels)
The 80's arcade game Amidar had a bonus stage every two levels, this pico-8 game helps in training your skills for that stage until extreme levels. The difficulty and complexity of random stages gradually increases at every level.
For those unfamiliar with Amidar: at first it might seem "based on luck" but it's definitely not:
you should choose the correct path to the prize by following an ideal path starting from the bottom where the banana is and then follow the path upwards to know the correct one to choose (read below).
The movement on path is based on "Amidakuji (Wikipedia)" method of lottery, basically move vertically up/down, follow the first horizontal line you encounter and so on.
It took me a week of development: 3-4 for the actual game, the remaining 3 for music and sound