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Lantern Jump

A short platformer about a paper lantern climbing a tower, with wind that pushes you sideways.

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Arrow keys to move, space to jump, hold down to drop through platforms

This game is played with a keyboard, so it works best on a computer. On a phone you can still watch it run, but you won't be able to move.

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What was hard, what I learned

Wind sounded like a small feature and turned out to be the hardest part, because it changed how far every jump went. I ended up drawing the jump arcs on paper before writing any code. That made the levels feel fair instead of random.

Tools
Vanilla JS
Tiled for level layout
Tags
platformerjavascript