Jump Rush

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

You never move sideways. The whole game is when, and whether, to jump.

1. Press Space, Enter or the Start Game button.
2. Watch both edges. Blue hazards come from the left and pink ones from the right, and a colored arrow at the screen edge warns of one about to enter.
3. Press Space, ArrowUp or W, the jump button, or tap the game area to jump as a hazard reaches you.
4. Jump into the spinning coin that sometimes appears above your head to collect it.
5. Don't jump when nothing is coming: landing without clearing anything resets your combo.

Game Objective

Score as many points as possible before you get hit. Each hazard that passes you is worth 10 points times your multiplier. The multiplier starts at x1 and rises by one for every 5 hazards in your current combo, topping out at x5 after 20. Coins are worth 5 points times the multiplier.

If you land from a jump that cleared no hazard and collected no coin, the combo resets to zero and the multiplier drops back to x1. A single hit from any hazard ends the run.

Tips

1. You can only jump from the ground, and every jump has the same height and lasts a little under two-thirds of a second. Pressing again in the air does nothing, so commit to each jump.
2. When hazards come from both sides at once, they are timed to reach you at the same moment, so a single jump clears both and adds two to your combo.
3. A jump that only collects a coin doesn't count as wasted. Coins appear every 4 to 7 seconds and stay for just over 2 seconds, so grabbing one never costs you your combo.
4. Your jump keeps you above even the tallest hazard for about half a second, so there's some slack. Take off a moment before the block reaches you rather than at the last instant.
5. The multiplier depends on your current combo, so a reset at combo 19 costs far more than one at combo 3. At x4 or x5, don't jump unless something is actually coming.

Difficulty

Difficulty: Difficulty: Hard

Jump Rush is rated Hard because it leaves no margin for error: one hit ends the run, hazards come from both directions, and the combo system punishes nervous jumping. Everything ramps with time over the first two minutes. Hazard speed doubles, the time between arrivals shrinks from about 0.95–1.6 seconds to 0.72–1.05 seconds, and hazards arriving from both sides at once go from about one in twelve to one in four.