Getting to the Other Side

Getting to the Other Side is a tiny jaywalking simulator that turns the old chicken-crossing joke into four playable punchlines. Each level changes the road problem, swaps in another character, and asks you to survive long enough to discover what the setup was hiding.

What is Getting to the Other Side?

This browser game takes a joke everyone already knows and puts traffic in the blank before the punchline. The creator describes four characters spread across four levels, with a different mechanical wrinkle at every crossing. That compact structure makes the road itself the storyteller: timing and survival carry you from chicken territory toward stranger answers involving a turtle and a scholar. It was released in 2017 to promote the following year's International Society for Humor Studies conference in Tallinn, an origin story almost as specific as the game. The current page lists keyboard, mouse, touchscreen, and an interactive tutorial.

What you can do there

• Guide four characters across traffic
• Adapt to a new crossing mechanic in each level

Why we picked it

Few conference promos ask you to dodge traffic for the sake of academic humor. The game earns its silliness by using the crossing mechanic as the actual joke format, then changing the rules before the familiar setup can go stale.

How to get the most from it

Open the embedded game and follow its interactive tutorial. Work through the four crossings one at a time, watching for the mechanical twist that arrives with each character. The creator's release note says the complete trip should take less than ten minutes.

Good to know

The project is a released English HTML5 game with keyboard, mouse, and touchscreen labels plus an original soundtrack. Exact controls, audio defaults, mobile behavior, remapping, save support, and current browser quirks were not documented or tested. Cartoon road peril is the whole premise.

Who made it, and when?

senokos is the credited creator or organization. The earliest supported launch date we found is September 21, 2017.