Sky Jump

Controls

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How to Play

Sky Jump uses the full control set: move, jump, and jump again in mid-air.

1. Start with Space, Enter or the Start Game button.
2. Move with ArrowLeft/A and ArrowRight/D or the on-screen arrows. Jump with Space, ArrowUp or W, the jump button, or a tap on the game area.
3. Press jump again while airborne for a double jump. The Jumps readout next to your score shows two filled dots on a cloud, one after your first jump and none when both are used.
4. Land on clouds from above. You can jump up through them from underneath, and a drifting cloud carries you while you stand on it.
5. When the yellow WIND INCOMING arrow appears, get onto a cloud or line up so the push works in your favor.
6. Touch stars to collect them. P or Esc pauses, and R restarts after a game over.

Game Objective

Climb as high as you can. Your score is your best height in meters plus 25 points for every star you collect, so detouring for a star is worth the same as climbing 25 meters.

The run ends if you fall below the bottom of the screen. The view never scrolls back down, so a missed landing is usually final unless your double jump is still available.

Tips

1. Save the double jump. Your air jump refills only when you land on a cloud, so spending it on the way up leaves nothing to rescue a bad landing.
2. Each gust is announced by yellow WIND INCOMING text about 1.2 seconds ahead, then pushes for 3 seconds. Standing on a cloud cuts the push to less than half, so treat the warning as your cue to land and wait.
3. No gusts happen during the first 40 meters, and after each gust ends the next one comes 7 to 12 seconds later. Use the calm opening to build height quickly.
4. Jump height is variable: let go of the jump input early to cut the rise short. A short hop reaches a nearby cloud without overshooting into one drifting overhead.
5. You don't need frame-perfect presses. A jump pressed about an eighth of a second before landing still fires on touchdown, and you can still jump for about a tenth of a second after walking off a cloud's edge.

Difficulty

Difficulty: Difficulty: Medium

Sky Jump is rated Medium: the double jump makes it forgiving, but you manage a second input and an outside force you can't control. Over roughly the first 1,000 meters, clouds shrink from about 80–110 units wide to 56–80, the vertical gaps grow, and the share of drifting clouds rises from about a third to about four in five, with faster drift. Wind gusts begin at 40 meters and keep getting stronger until around 1,200 meters.