Jumping at Shadows - A new platform game for the Atari Jaguar by Reboot
A downloadable game
Your nameless hero is thrown into another dark dystopian future, where machines and droids are ruling the lost cities and industrial wastelands. Surprise! Each section of this world is interconnected by a network of strange portals. To open a portal, you have to collect a certain number of gems - gamey!
Welcome to our new project - a platform game for the 64 bit Atari Jaguar!
The goal is the create an awesome fun platfomer for the Jaguar, inspired by Celeste and Micro Mages: fast, tight and dynamic traversal. Thanks due to precise and intuitive control, master the timing of your awesome game characters abilities to overcome the deadliest and most cunningly designed traps!
Design Features:
- An atmospheric platform game inspired by modern classics like Celeste, Super Meat Boy and Micro Mages (Thank you for the great games!)
- Fast and fluid traversal gameplay
- Time double jump and dash mechanics for precise, dynamic platforming
- Shoot those robot patrols with your throwing stars or simply bounce on them!
- Use explosives to destroy the bigger baddies or to open new paths!
- Collect the light gems to open the exit and proceed with your mission
- Track down keys to unlock crucial rooms
- Unlock and master 35 levels you can access via an hub world
- Challenge the final boss to save the day!
Technical features:
- 3 full screen parallax layers, fluid character animations, fully flexible sprite sizes thanks to the awesome Jaguar sprite engine!
- 60 FPS
- 4 bit, 8 bit and 16 bit colors for sprites and level graphics
- Transparent, animated light effects leveraging Jaguars unique CRY mode (And we thought it was useless lol)
- Fully animated, big sprites
- A dozen of full length music tracks
- Physical release by Atariage
Order your copy here:
https://store.atariage.com/products/jumping-at-shadows-atari-jaguar
Unboxing presentation:
Credits:
Code/Tools/Design: Lawrence "CJ" Staveley
Pixelart, animated graphics and sprites, game design, level design: Alexander "AnderLex" Grade
Tilesets "Dark Platformer": Szadi Art
Music: Roald Strauss
Sound Engine: Oxygene/ported by EricD45
Copyright Reboot and
Alexander Grade, 2022-2024
Tiles licensed from SzadiArt
Download
Install instructions
Demo works on Jaguar GD and BigPemu emulator. Make sure to enable GD emulation (thanks CJ!)
Development log
- JaS playable at gaming convention in Bonn/Germany98 days ago
- Award winner and digital purchase available (full game)Mar 21, 2025
- Order your copy today!Nov 28, 2024
- Release day!Sep 28, 2024
- Game completion - betatesting started!Jun 14, 2024
- Status updateApr 13, 2024
- September updateSep 29, 2023
- Progress Update AprilApr 14, 2023
Comments
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Epic! Can't wait to play this🥳🥰
I tried it in BigPEmu, but it just got suck on the Reboot screen?
It works on real Jaguars, probably its older than BigPemu, I will investigate. Thanks for the feedback!
Thanks to investigate :)
Enable the GD Emulation option
Thanks CJ!
Thank you !
I did this, and it's still stuck at the Reboot screen. Using BigPEmu 1.18.
100% works, we used it to develop it :)
I played the first 3 stages on my JagGD, so far. This is the best platformer I've ever seen for the Jag, period! Mindblowing! Well done! Please sell physical and digital. As a Jag console owner, I'm starting to wonder what we do with all these amazing homebrew carts once all our Jags die. I wish someone would make like a Hyperkin Jag console, so we can keep the physical cartridges alive.
This game looks unbelievable so far! Can't wait until it's out to buy! Any idea of when it may be available?
Thanks, its coming this year via Atariage and possibly digital download too!
Awesome! Looking forward to buying it!
Keep us updated how your beta testing progresses :)
Hi, thanks for your interest in the game! Your magazine looks really great! Are you interested to do some coverage on the game?
Greetings! Alex
Hey Alex,
no one in the team has a real Jaguar, but sure we are interested in giving it go via emulation. From the screeshots and the already available information, we could imagine a one page review. We usually focus on effectively released games (or as good as released games), when do you plan the public release?
Regards
Shahzad
Hello! The game will be available 2024, around Nov. It will be playable at Ejagfest convention too. Its also playable on BigPemu emulation software. Please contact Reboot for preview code.
Greetings Alex
We will wait until the game is out :)
Looks very cool, would love to talk to you about it for Retro Gamer magazine
Hello, thanks! How can we contact you?
Please visit this thread on atariage.com to get in contact with us: https://forums.atariage.com/topic/330925-jumping-at-shadows-wip-platform-game-fr...