Karma Miwa

Karma Miwa is a platform game in which you guide a fragile, flightless bird on a long, dangerous journey home to its mate. Enemies are drawn to the bird, so you run and jump over them and other obstacles across 20 levels in three areas.

Birds and difficulties

You can play as Miwa, who is slower, or Terry, who is faster. Each has two difficulty modes, and the game has four difficulties overall. The Pro mode can be very hard. After you lose all your lives, the game enters Practice Mode, where you can continue the level in easy modes.

Movement and hazards

You can move only across plain landscape and floating platforms, and jump either left or right, not upward. You have no control while on a slope and limited control in the air. Water and moving enemy animals are hazards; the first contact with an enemy or water is non-fatal, thanks to the game's two-hit system.

The game was inspired by the 1980s game Snokie, which appeared on Commodore 64 and Atari 800. It shares much of that game's basic gameplay, with enhanced graphics, music and sound, as well as newer enemy types.