If Doodle Jump’s insane popularity is any indication, PapiJump-like jumping games are loved by many. I’m not entirely sure if Axolot Games’ Above is the next Doodle Jump, but it is pretty cool with an insanely intricate art style that really puts other games in the genre to shame.
In Above, you play as a guy who runs from side to side across the screen jumping on a series of platforms that apparently just mysteriously spawned in the air as he was walking down the street. Of course the logical thing to do in this situation is to start jumping on them to see where they go. Instead of constantly jumping like Doodle Jump, you touch the screen to charge up a jump which allows you to make quick hops as well as giant leaps depending on how long you hold your finger down. As you go higher and higher, the background scrolls up with you until you reach the clouds, and eventually make it in to space on the hard difficulty level that has you starting by jumping off the solar panels of the International Space Station.
Above is delightfully ridiculous, and has a constant element of urgency to the game not seen in the other platform jumpers where your guy is constantly running back and forth, forcing you to either keep jumping, or fall between the gaps to the level below. Because of this, the game is a little more forgiving and you can fall down a few levels of platforms before you actually lose.
Above is still in development, and is missing several sprites and other refinement, but here is some gameplay video of this work in progress to give you an idea how this all goes together:
Axolot Games expects to have Above on the App Store sometime in March.
