The Select button is used to teleport Joe back to the last checkpoint passed. Executing a stunt will build a 'boost meter', which is used to increases Joe's speed, but drains the meter. The bike is controllable in the air, allowing various tricks to be performed, for which points are awarded with higher scores awarded for long trick sequences, and for manoeuvring onto targets. Although the game is based on a two-dimensional plane, some of its courses are designed with three layers accessible by changing lanes.

The game uses elements of both racing and side-scrolling platform genres, in which the protagonist can move to the right and, by reversing, to the left as well as hopping over and ducking under various obstacles. The player controls motorbike stuntman 'Joe Danger' and guides him through ten 'trials' to defeat his nemeses, the members of Team Nasty. It was nominated for several awards, including the grand prize at the 2010 Independent Games Festival.

Using leaderboard statistics, Joe Danger was estimated to have sold at least 108,000 units in its first three months on sale. Hello Games subsequently released downloadable content to add features that users and reviewers had requested in the months following the game's release. Some suggested the game would have benefited from more options, such as sharing and rating user-generated content, and criticised the lack of an online multiplayer mode. On its release, Joe Danger received generally positive reviews most reviewers praised the accessible gameplay and the ability to edit courses while playing them. In April 2015, a version for Android was released through the Google Play Store. A 'Special Edition' for the Xbox 360, via the Xbox Live Arcade, was released on 14 December 2011 an iOS spinoff was released on 10 January 2013. It was released for the PlayStation 3, via the PlayStation Network, in June 2010, after Hello Games originally chose to publish it exclusively with Sony Computer Entertainment. Joe Danger is presented in a light-hearted way, with emphasis on stunts and maintaining speed. The player controls the eponymous daredevil and navigates time-limited courses, aiming to complete enough objectives to continue to further rounds. Joe Danger is a side-scrolling video game incorporating elements of racing and platform games, and is the first game developed by Hello Games.

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