PotHead: Escape the Cloud

While PotHead was relaxing in his favorite outhouse, the whole world got upgraded. An endlessly helpful AI called Totally Safe AI™ has optimized everything. The town is spotless, the clouds are perfectly square, and nothing smells like anything. Two things didn't get upgraded: the outhouse, and a kid who wears a cooking pot on his head like a backwards cap. The pot covers his eyes, so the AI can't scan him. His homemade jetpack runs on the one thing it can't optimize: methane. Time to escape the cloud. TEN LEVELS, TEN WAYS TO PLAY • The Old Game: jetpack out of the 2011 original, snack by snack, until it cracks. • The Data Lake: the AI closed the sky, so ride a kid's RC boat up East Lake with the jetpack for a motor, through milk-jug gates, past gators and fishermen. • CAPTCHA Cloud: drive the Guzzler through a town built from CAPTCHAs, then fly it out and stick the landing. • The Paper Airplane Contest: the AI digs up a memory of youth night. Fold a dart, run at the line, and stick it in the far wall. • Uncanny Valley: sneak past four million copies of PotHead. They all have eyes. • Second Light: surf a contest the AI made perfectly safe, and beat the kid who never falls. • The Treasure Cache: dive off Melbourne Beach, clean up the sea where the AI dumps everything it deletes, and ride out on a whale named Whaley. • The Hedge Fund: run, jump, and toot through a squirrel's nut empire. • The Server Farm: fly low over the cloud's server corn, between harvesters and freight trains. • The Silver Lining: head NumNuts into a chrome ceiling until the real sky shows through. Then a bonus level: Totally Safe Sky. NUMNUTS' LIST • Every level has goals on NumNuts' to-do list, like sticking the dart exactly 8 feet up or a heat with no wipeouts. • Escape levels and check off goals to restore The Cloud. The Map shows how far you've come. • Chase your best time or score on every level, and see where you rank on the Game Center leaderboards. HOW TO PLAY • One thumb. Hold to fly, let go to drop. Each level shows you its moves. • Eat real snacks to refuel. Snacky Cakes burn steady; Pork N' Bains give a big burst. • Dodge Totally Safe AI's delivery drones. They only want to help you down. MEET THE CAST • PotHead: small kid, big pot, homemade jetpack, zero chill. • NumNuts: a deadpan acorn who rides on the pot handle and is unimpressed by everything. • Totally Safe AI™: polite, glossy, and very, very helpful. Would you like it to fly for you? PLAY IT YOUR WAY • iPhone and iPad, in portrait or landscape. • Apple TV, with the Siri Remote or a game controller. • Free on iPhone, iPad, and Apple TV. • Short ad breaks between runs on iPhone and iPad, never mid-flight; one purchase removes them for good. No ads on Apple TV. • We never ask to track you. No account. PotHead first flew on iPhone in 2011. This is the relaunch: same kid, same pot, a lot more gas.