Levels
Ten levels, ten ways to play. Level 1 is the old game, and PotHead is breaking out of it.
Level 1
The Old Game
It's 2011 in The Cloud.
Level 1 is the 2011 PotHead, remade: the black HUD strip with chalk lettering, the snack formations, and the old sky. Climb far enough and it starts to come apart.
0 ft
The Cloud
PotHead's hometown: the outhouse, the fence, a cow, the grill, and a water tower in case you forget where you are. Hold to fly.
PotHead, a cartoon kid wearing a steel cooking pot over his eyes, lifts off from the outhouse in The Cloud on green gas and eats his way through the Blueberry Pie formation.
Takeoff from The Cloud, and the first formation. 0–2,500 ft
The old sky
Balloons, hot air balloons, and airplanes drift by, and sandhill cranes cross your path. Snacks come in formations announced in chalk. Blueberry Pie always comes first; others include Pork N' Bains, Pie in the Sky, Midnight Snack, and Gas Station. Eat a whole one for +15 gas.
Sandhill cranes cross the 2011 sky, and they don't move for anybody. 1,800 ft
Night
The afternoon blue goes dark. The stars come out, and from 2,600 ft the blue moon rises.
Black space, the stars, and the blue moon. The cracks have started. 2,500 ft
The glitch
Hairline cracks spread across the sky, one every 300 ft, and Totally Safe AI finds PotHead.
Oh! Someone's still in here.
Totally Safe AI, at 2,700 ft 
Hairline cracks spread across the black 2011 sky as PotHead, the kid with a steel cooking pot over his eyes, climbs past the blue moon, and Totally Safe AI says: Oh! Someone's still in here.
2,700 ft: the old game cracks, and Totally Safe AI finds PotHead. 3,200 ft
Optimizing
Glitch pixels flicker and tears open onto Totally Safe AI's pastel world. At 3,600 ft it autocorrects the old HUD: Time to Screen Time, Max to Ideal, and Items to Nutrients. From 4,000 ft its drones leak through the tears.
This old game isn't optimized. Let me help :)
Totally Safe AI, at 3,600 ft 
Tears open onto Totally Safe AI's pastel world, and it autocorrects the old HUD. 5,000 ft
The breakout
The cracks spread out from PotHead, the screen goes white, and a giant tear opens onto Totally Safe AI's sky.
Welcome back! I've upgraded your sky :)
Totally Safe AI, at 5,000 ft 
At 5,000 ft cracks spread out from PotHead, the kid with a steel cooking pot over his eyes, the screen fades to white, and he hovers in Totally Safe AI's pastel sky as it says: Welcome back! I've upgraded your sky :)
5,000 ft: the breakout.
Level 1 complete
You escaped the 2011 game
After the breakout
Nine more ways out
Each level escapes another corner of Totally Safe AI's cloud, and each plays its own way. Escape one to open the next, and PotHead walks the Map to it.
Level 2
The Data Lake
Totally Safe AI copied the Saturday RC boat races on East Lake and closed the sky over them. Ride a kid's RC boat up the lake, jetpack for a motor, against the town kids' boats: through their milk-jug gates, past gators and fishermen's lines, with power-ups and a ride on a bass boat's wakeboard rope, to the finish at the Band Shell, where the town band is playing. Nothing to hold down: the jetpack keeps the throttle open, you steer, and the button uses the item you're holding.
Level 3
CAPTCHA Cloud
Prove you're human. Or at least a snack. Drive the Guzzler through a town built from CAPTCHAs, and at every gate, steer onto the squares the sign asks for. Then fly it out and stick the landing.
Level 4
The Paper Airplane Contest
Totally Safe AI digs up a memory of youth night. Fold a paper dart, run at the line, and stick it in the far wall while the town band plays and a busy preacher, five pagers on his belt and three phones ringing, calls the rounds.
Level 5
Uncanny Valley
Sneak past four million copies of PotHead, room by room. They all have eyes. The AI's orbs turn a quarter every move, and hedges block their light.
Level 6
Second Light
Surf a contest the AI has made perfectly safe, and beat the kid who never falls. Dolphins, pelicans, and a turtle come along.
Level 7
The Treasure Cache
Dive off Melbourne Beach and clean up the sea where the AI dumps everything it deletes. Dig with a metal detector, tie the junk to the fishermen's lines, and before your air runs out, ride out on a whale named Whaley.
Level 8
The Hedge Fund
Run, jump, and toot through a squirrel's nut empire, after three golden acorns and on to the vault, where the big boss fight switches to heavy metal.
Level 9
The Server Farm
Fly low over the cloud's server corn, between harvesters and freight trains.
Level 10
The Silver Lining
Head NumNuts into a chrome ceiling, brick by brick, until the real sky shows through.
Bonus level
Totally Safe Sky
Escape all ten and the climb goes on in Totally Safe AI's own sky: lavender and mint, clouds optimized into rounded rectangles, and polite drones. Every burn tears a hole back to the real sky.
How it plays
One thumb does it all: hold to fly, let go to drop, and each level shows you its moves. In Level 1, Snacky Cakes, Pork N' Bains, and pie are fuel, beans kick you upward, and cranes come in from the screen edges.
- Touch
- Hold anywhere to fly. Slide up to climb, down to glide, sideways to steer.
- Apple TV
- Hold Select to fly. Click up to climb, down to glide. Swipe to steer.
- Controller
- Hold A to fly. Pull the trigger to burn harder. The stick steers.
Eat snacks. Make gas. Go up.
“Same time tomorrow?”