Sobsz / jumpy-game

it will eventually be a game where you jumpy

jumpy game

it will eventually be a game where you jumpy

how gaming

• wasd to move
• space to jump
• shift to go slow and also reduce inertia
• comma and period to rotate left and right 45° (like in roblox)
• r to restart

comparison

aka what to play while waiting for me to finish this

italicized are aspects i personally care about

see also: https://www.reddit.com/r/gamingsuggestions/comments/pykcd0/is_there_a_game_where_you_just_parkour/

(wider view here)

	Celeste	Micro Platformer	Minecraft parkour	ClassiCube (Not Awesome 2 server)	Roblox obbies	Super Mario 64	Clustertruck	MEANDERS	jumpy game (planned)
access
free	❌	✅	❌	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌	✅
offline	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌	✅	✅	✅	✅
pc	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
browser	〰1	❌	❌	✅	❌	✅2	❌	❌	✅
mobile	❌	❌	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌	✅
console	✅	❌	✅	❌	✅	✅	✅	✅3	❌
gameplay
dimensions	2	2	3	3	3	3	3	3	3
howlongtobeat (official, main + extra)	25	1	n/a	15+4	n/a	17	5.5	2.5	5?
caters to noobs	〰	〰	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
caters to advanced	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
caters to experts	✅	✅	✅	❌	✅	✅	✅	❌	❔
custom levels	✅	〰	✅	〰	✅	〰	✅	❌	✅
↑ sorted by difficulty	❌	❔	〰5	❌	✅6	❌	❌	n/a	✅
custom elements	✅	❌	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌	n/a	✅
sanctioned cheats	✅	❌	✅	❌	❌	〰	❌	❌	✅
multiplayer	✅	❌	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌
other
visual style	fancy	clean	fancy	fancy	fancy	fancy	clean	clean	clean
custom player visuals	✅	❌	✅	✅	〰7	✅	❌	❌	✅
rhythm elements	✅	❌	〰	❌	✅	❔	❌	❌	✅
toki pona translation	✅8	❌	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	✅

honorable mention: neverball which isn't really a standard platformer but has similar vibes outside of that (and is also quite fun)

also seum which i haven't tried yet but it seems cool [update: i now have and yeah it's cool]

todo

• basic movement
  • linear acceleration as an option (or replacing exponential?)
  • sneak
    • crawl
  • celeste dash?
  • celeste coyote time (allow jumps right after falling off a platform)
  • minecraft stepping?
  • sonic continuous acceleration (specifically separate from inertia)
  • variable-height jumps?
  • finetune it to make sure it's good and comfy; might not matter because roblox obbies are fun despite lack thereof
• mouse rotation
• 45° snap rotation
  • make camera follow it smoothly
• toggle between 1st- and 3rd-person
• make 3rd-person camera either collide with walls or semitransparently render any that are in the way
• shadow directly below player
• slightly fancier model (procedural with adjustable size)
  • animated
  • minecraft skin import
    • ears mod support
• a barebones level
• custom cube+collider object
  • other shapes (slope, cylinder?)
  • fixed-width borders (blender inset faces with different material)
• cube types
  • winbricks (or should it be winzones?)
  • killbricks
  • speedbricks
  • fallbricks?
  • slipbricks
  • celeste rhythmbricks
    • to the rhythm of smoothly looping music (idk if stock or make own)
  • climbbricks
  • movebricks?
  • buttonbricks??
  • launchbricks?
  • checkpointbricks (full reset would require going into a menu i guess, or resetting at a checkpoint)
• explicitly specified platform order (needs to be a graph to handle branching and looping)
  • highlight next platform(s) when enabled / on demand
  • reward skips with satisfying effects
  • train a neural network on it to generate levels?
• seamless level joining (goal block connected to start block)
• collectibles
  • unlockable skins/effects based on those?
• a complete level
  • a level someone actively enjoys
  • one level for each mechanic
  • a full default level set (let's say 36 with a nice difficulty curve)
  • a kaizo level
  • someone else making a level
• level editor
  • custom music loading (non-trivial due to godot limitations, might need to import a non-unlicense module)
    • show music title when loading level (automatically solves attribution of potential cc-by music in gameplay videos)
  • random generation
  • level server
    • global leaderboard
• pause menu
• level select screen
  • level unlocking? (i'm thinking only the first n uncompleted levels would be available, effectively allowing for n skips that can be restored later)
• sound effects
• savefile
  • best time and attempt count
  • settings
    • controls
    • visuals
• countdown
  • maybe fly around the level before playing it? kinda like mario odyssey
• cheats screen
• credits screen

unplanned

• custom level format - godot editor is good enough, and if people wanna make ports then a converter can be rigged up
• elo system for level difficulty (like in lichess puzzles, failure = 1/nth of a loss, with maybe multiple scores for varying ns) - there aren't gonna be enough players for that to work well, and it might encourage sticking to easy unfun levels
• paid content - i generally post everything for free (in part because i don't put much effort into it); if you wanna pay then buy one of the games above or donate

Footnotes

1. the pico-8 version ↩

2. idk if i can link it but it's out there ↩

3. switch version ↩

4. based on incomplete speedrun times ↩

5. world parkour maker, maybe some offline collections too but idk ↩

6. tiered obbies, Juke's Towers of Hell (and similar, e.g. The Noob Zone Towers), difficulty chart obbies ↩

7. colors and t-shirts are free, everything else is microtransactions ↩

8. o kama jo lon ni ↩