Jumping at Shadows - A new platform game for the Atari Jaguar by Reboot

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

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