How a Berlin-based developer turned Lagos traffic into a viral game

Swipe to the left to dodge the car ahead. Swipe to the right to swerve around a heap of tyres blocking the road. Hit the brake as you approach the yellow-lined bus stop. Passengers tumble out, new ones climb in, and you hit the gas to keep going. A 3D figure carrying a tray steps into the road, so you hit the horn and the familiar pom-pom-pom rings out.
This is Lagos Run , a browser-based endless runner that has taken over Nigerian social media timelines over the past two days. Built by Opeyemi Adeniran, a Berlin-based senior frontend engineer who posts on X as Eureka , the game has drawn more than 20,000 players within two days of its public release, according to him.
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