I am making a game (have been since October 2021) that is currently ridiculously unpresentable because 90% of the work I'm doing on it is engine stuff. I recorded a video about it - actually, I recorded 4 videos about it, but the first 3 I interrupted or got off-track - but I forgot to keep the microphone on my headset in front of me in the latter half of the video, so 50% of it you can barely hear anything I'm saying. A bit pathetic.

It's a LÖVE clone of Maddy Thorson (developer of Celeste)'s very old Game Maker game Jumper 2, and its editor version Jumper 2 Editor. It's called Jumper 4 Real because: 1. Jumper 3 exists and this is kind of like a fanmade entry in the Jumper series, 2. "Jumper for real" sounds totally gnarly, 3. OMG, Jumper 4 REAL?? (NOT CLICKBAIT), and 4. I've had the idea to make a really robust Jumper fangame since I was younger and couldn't really program anything, and now this game is gradually moving from imaginary to real.

Currently very few elements are in, and no actual permanent levels have been made yet. A lot of the work is on backend stuff because I wisely chose to reinvent the wheel (mostly because I prefer to work with my own code and, come on, this is my first game). Pretty much everything is made from scratch in the LÖVE framework - the only things I've borrowed so far are a very simple metatable-based object class system, and a string split function.

It's going to be highly editable, like Knytt Stories. In fact, you can also have an open-world levelset like Knytt Stories, with the introduction of multiple level exits/entrances, and a special "tag" for Ogmo that lets it preserve the momentum and position of the exiting Ogmo from the previous level.


(In the above screenshots, the resolution varies because the editor mode has a larger resolution than the rest of the game. Also, levelsets can define their own window width/height, which is honestly probably not going to stay and is mainly a kludge since I created a showcase levelset for the initial 512x512 resolution and then realized the main Jumper games use a 640x480 resolution. Also, the last screenshot is of HTML Help. )

No download yet because there's barely any levels and the editor is far from finished.

I randomly stumbled upon my old backup of KS Online. Posting here in case anyone's interested.

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Granted: a Great Old One awakens and eats the universe, therefore ending the time loop, as well as everything else.


THE GREAT OLD ONE WISHES FOR A COSY PLACE TO SLEEP WHILE IT WAITS FOR A NEW UNIVERSE TO COME INTO EXISTENCE AND MATURE, READY ALSO TO BE DEVOURED

The more you trashtalk your own level the more I'm interested in it. I'm not sure whether it looks good or bad but it definitely looks interesting. Love the last screenshot.

Granted. It turns out that some supreme being called god exists after all and it does not like those zombie vampire penguin shenanigans ending up in shattering the entire universe. So it tidies up all this mess and then erases all the users of this formum (not only the people who participate in this game now but everyone who ever posted) from existence just to be sure we won't cause another zombie apocalypse followed by vampire apocalypse followed by Jupiter Moon Martian adpocalypse followed by some time-space mess.

I wish nobody was erased from existence and that we (and by we I mean current participants in this game) were able to turn this entire zombie saga into multi-book sci-fi series that later gets picked up by Hollywood and game industry and making us all filthy rich.