Creating Games from Templates
Jump offers a variety of templates that you may use as a starting point when building your game.
The following templates are available:
Adventure Dungeon
The Adventure Dungeon game involves a 2D character navigating a 2D maze-like world while trying to avoid enemies. The Adventure Dungeon game comes with a player character and enemies, and you may edit their artwork and animations in the Game Asset Editor. Additionally, you may edit the behavior of each character in the game.
Simple Platformer
The Simple Platformer is a platform game with a character that can jump and walk. The goal of the game is to utilize jumps and platforms to get the player to the end portal. The player may collect coins for points along the way. You may customize the background, coins, enemies, and portals of the game in the Game Asset Editor.
Adventure Platformer
The adventure platformer is a 2D platformer action game with assets that you may edit such as tiles, platforms, character animations, and backgrounds. Adventure Platformers differ from Simple Platformers in that the player is able to perform a greater variety of actions besides run and jump. For example, the player can perform actions such as double jump, attack, hang, slide, and crouch.
Space Shooter
A Space Shooter is a 2D action game in which you use controls to avoid and shoot at enemy ships. It comes with configurable assets such as ships, explosion, collision shapes, guns, and maps.
Topdown Physics
In Topdown Physics games, a character moves through a space presented from the bird's eye view perspective. Physics are applied to the objects in the game's logic that specify how they interact with each other.
Tower Defense
In Tower Defense games, players must place objects along a track to block other objects from reaching an exit point.
Visual Novel
Visual Novels are interactive stories with backgrounds, characters, and character text. Visual Novels presents the player with multiple story paths depending on selected options.
