Breaking 10,000 points in G.o. Jump
Pronounced “gee-oh” jump, this recently released iOS game from Code Brewery has sucked up a lot of my free time. Unlike games which focus mostly on graphics, G.o Jump is about the gameplay. Breaking your old high score while enjoying the original 8-bit music is a wonderful feeling. Check out a video of the game here.
Basic Game Play
The game is simple and takes 30 seconds to learn, but to get a high scoring game will take at least a week.
To play you tilt your iPhone or iPad to move a ball in order to avoid falling shapes and jump onto split shapes. You lose when a shape lands on you, or you bump into one. Avoiding a shape gets you 1 point, while jumping on a split shape gets you 2 points. Additionally, jumping on shapes consecutively will earn you extra combo points.
Tips
The multiplier is the key to a high scoring game. To build the multiplier, you need to jump on 3 consecutive shapes to add 1 factor to the multiplier. Then you have roughly 10 seconds to do it again, or else your multiplier drops back to 0.
Here are some tips to maintaining and building a high multiplier:
- Avoid power ups: although fun, they will destroy your multiplier because of how long they last.
- Time your jumps: at the lower levels of the game, shapes are relatively rare. You should wait wait for a few shapes to appear before you jump on the split shapes to get a combo.
- Anticipation: shapes split randomly, but if you can jump towards the falling shapes as if they were going to break. Sometimes you’ll just hit the ground, but the rest of the time you can keep building your combo. The one exception to randomly splitting shapes is when they appear in groups of 2 or 3. When they appear this way, they will always split.
- Play conservatively: since one wrong move and its game over, playing conservatively is the best bet. If you’re considering going for a 3rd jump to increase your multiplier, but there is a shape about to fall, you’re better off returning to ground and waiting for a better opportunity.
- Perseverance: it’ll seem daunting at first that others are scoring in the thousands when you’re still trying to break 200 points, but don’t give up. Due to the nature of the scoring system, the points come exponentially. Once you build your multiplier up to 10x, each jump on a shape is worth 20 points. Jump on 3 shapes and with the extra combo points that’s almost 100 points right there! Practice makes perfect, so get playing!
Its currently free in the App Store, so I suggest you get it before April 3rd or else you’ll have to pay the $0.99 (although its well worth it)! And please leave a review if you liked the game.
If you have any other tips, leave a comment below.
Philbert Lin 29 March 2013