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Little Denmark Dash!

A fairy-tale platform adventure.

An ostrich has snatched the Danish crown, and one little nisse, the red-capped house elf of Danish folklore, is going to get it back.

See it in action Kid Mode & Classic Mode
Little Denmark Dash app icon: a nisse in a red cap leaping over red rooftops toward a glowing æbleskive

The story

Solvang, from the rooftops.

Little Denmark Dash is a platformer based on Solvang, California. Run and jump across half-timbered rooftops, through a bakery before dawn, among the turning gears of a broken clock tower, and up the shelves of a giant storybook.

Earn lots of æbleskiver (round Danish pancakes) as you chase the ostrich and return the Danish crown she has taken! Explore secret levels and enjoy nostalgic gameplay and controls.

The Little Denmark Dash title screen: the nisse on a red rooftop in Solvang, with a duck family on the roof next doorThe nisse running across half-timbered rooftops toward a trail of glowing æbleskiverThe nisse leaping between rooftops past a duck and her ducklingsThe nisse sliding along a clothesline of laundry high above the streetThe nisse on a long thatched roof with æbleskiver floating aheadClassic Mode, with spare caps for lives and a clock, as the nisse jumps from a green copper roof

Screens from the iPhone version. Art and music are original, made just for this game.

Two ways to play

One game for the whole family.

Pick a mode on the first launch, and switch any time in Settings.

Kid Mode

Nothing is ever lost.

No lives and no clock. Miss a jump and a friendly stork carries the nisse back up. Bump into something and he takes a dizzy tumble, then keeps going. It is the default.

Classic Mode

Lives, a clock, checkpoints.

Played like the platformers you remember: run out of lives and the level starts over. Every 100 æbleskiver earns an extra life, and Game Center leaderboards keep score.

Two worlds at launch

Eight levels, each with its own idea.

World 1: Solvang

The real Danish town in California, from the rooftops.

  1. Hej Solvang

    Chimneys to hop, stork nests to bounce on, and ducks to dodge on a sunny morning.

  2. The Bakery

    Conveyor belts, rising dough and rolling loaves, all seen from knee-high.

  3. Copper Slides

    Sit down on the green copper roofs and slide, faster and faster, then jump off the end.

  4. The Round Tower

    Climb the spiral brick ramp while wheels of cheese come rolling down.

World 2: Der var engang

“Once upon a time”: Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales come to life.

  1. Fairy-tale Lane

    Bounce on the princess's tall pile of mattresses and float across the streets under Ole Lukøje's umbrella.

  2. Clockworks

    Ride the turning gears and swinging pendulums inside the clock tower.

  3. The Steeple Chase

    Race over copper steeples and clotheslines at dusk.

  4. The Storybook Castle

    Climb giant bookcases to a grumpy ostrich in a paper crown.

Secrets everywhere.

Every level hides three paper-cut hearts, and each one you find fills in part of a paper-cut picture in the Scrapbook. There are hidden blocks and secret rooms, the windmill at the end of each level pays more the higher you grab it, and the hills behind town have a few surprises of their own.

Keep an eye on the scruffy duckling waddling behind the ducks, too. It keeps getting bigger.

A little bit of Denmark.

Players pick up a few Danish words along the way, and the Help pages tell the true stories behind the game, from the Danish-Americans who founded Solvang in 1911 to why a nisse will do anything for a bowl of rice pudding.

  • HEJ! (hi)
  • TAK! (thanks)
  • HYGGE POWER! (that warm, cozy Danish feeling)

Good to know

The good kind of old-fashioned.

Curious how Game Center and iCloud work? See the privacy policy.

Buy once, play everywhere

One purchase covers iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple TV, and Family Sharing is on.

Plays offline

Works on a plane or a long drive. Stop anywhere and pick up again at the last checkpoint.

Game Center, your call

On in Classic Mode for leaderboards, challenges and badges, off in Kid Mode. Switch it either way in Settings.

Progress follows you

Saved on your device, and synced to your other devices through your own iCloud.

Play your way

Touch, a game controller, a keyboard on Mac, or the Siri Remote.

A real place

Built from Solvang's windmills, half-timbered houses, copper roofs and bakeries, with a few fairy tales mixed in.

Apple first.

Little Denmark Dash is coming to the App Store for iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple TV. We'd love to bring it to Android and Fire TV down the road, too.

  • iPhone & iPadComing soon
  • MacComing soon
  • Apple TVComing soon
  • Fire TVMaybe later
  • AndroidMaybe later

Be first on the rooftop.

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