Moving Platforms

Controls

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How to Play

You ride your current platform and jump vertically, so the timing of the press is everything.

1. Press Space, Enter or the Start Game button.
2. Watch the platform on the row above. The dashed line rising from your character shows exactly where your jump will go.
3. Press Space, ArrowUp or W, the jump button, or tap the game area when that platform is about to pass over the line.
4. Land on it to climb one row. If you miss, you drop back and survive only if your own platform is still underneath you.
5. Every seventh row is a stationary green platform where you can stop and reset.

Game Objective

Climb as many rows as you can. Each row is worth 10 points, and a landing within 7 units of the center of the platform above adds a 5-point CENTERED bonus. The readout next to the score shows the row you're on.

The run ends when a jump misses both the row above and your own platform and you fall out of view.

Tips

1. There is no timer and the screen never scrolls, so you can wait on any row for as long as you like. Let a few passes go by until the alignment looks clean.
2. Your jump goes straight up and doesn't keep your platform's sideways motion. Aim with the dashed guide line, not with the direction you are riding.
3. A landing on the row above happens a little over half a second after you press, so the platform above should still be about half a second away from your guide line when you jump. On fast rows that means pressing noticeably earlier.
4. A miss from a stationary resting row is always safe: your platform hasn't moved, so you land right back where you started.
5. The CENTERED bonus is worth half a row. Chase it on the slow early rows, but on narrow late platforms any landing is what counts.

Difficulty

Difficulty: Difficulty: Easy

Moving Platforms is rated Easy because it has one button, no timer and no auto-scrolling: you can wait on any row as long as you like, and every seventh row is a stationary resting platform. The difficulty comes purely from height. From the first row to about row 120, platforms shrink from roughly 120 units wide to 48 and their sliding speed more than triples, so the window in which a jump will land keeps getting shorter.