Jump Over

Controls

The game pauses automatically if you switch tabs. Sound effects are generated in your browser and can be muted with the speaker button.

How to Play

Your runner moves on its own. The only decision is how long to hold the button.

1. Press Space, Enter or Start Game to start running.
2. Tap Space, ArrowUp or W, the jump button, or the game area for a short hop.
3. Hold the same input for a high jump. Releasing at any point during the rise cuts the jump short.
4. Hop single crates and logs, and use a held jump for tall stacks of two crates.
5. When a drone hovers ahead, especially above a crate, use a short hop so you pass underneath it.

Game Objective

Run as far as you can. The score counts distance traveled, so it climbs continuously and faster as the run speeds up. The Speed readout next to the score starts at 100% and rises to 213%.

A single collision with any obstacle, on the ground or in the air, ends the run.

Tips

1. By the game's physics, a quick tap lifts you about 74 units and a full hold about 131. Drones hang high enough that a short hop always slips underneath, while a full jump runs straight into them.
2. Double-crate stacks stand 78 units tall, which a quick tap only barely reaches. Hold the button for at least part of the rise when a stack is coming.
3. The short-hop cut can't kick in during the first 0.08 seconds of a jump, so even the fastest tap gives the full minimum hop. You can't accidentally make it smaller.
4. Logs are only 24 units tall but 64 units long, more than twice the width of a crate. Take off a little earlier for them rather than jumping higher.
5. A press made up to a tenth of a second before touching down still triggers a jump on landing, which helps when obstacles come back to back at high speed.

Difficulty

Difficulty: Difficulty: Easy

Jump Over is rated Easy: it is a single-button game with a small set of obstacle types, and each run starts slowly. It ramps up in two ways. Running speed rises at a steady rate from the first second until it has more than doubled (the Speed readout goes from 100% to 213% after about 38 seconds). Separately, the random extra space between obstacles shrinks as your score grows, reaching its tightest spacing around 6,000 points, although a minimum gap that grows with your speed always remains.