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Jumping in games is more complicated than you might think.

It isn’t as simple checking a button press or seeing if your player is grounded.

In my game, we’ve added three things you’ve, statistically, never heard of. Combined, they MASSIVELY increase the responsiveness of our character’s jump.

The first is an analogue jump. This ties the jump directly to it's button state. Instead of an explosive force, we continually add a force while the button is pressed. We stop as soon as the button is released or we reach the jump’s peak.

Next is Coyote Time. Which, yes, gets its name from Looney Tunes. After a player walks off an edge, there’s a short window where we still let them jump. This actually makes games feel more fair. There’s a lot of magic in games and what you see isn’t always what’s being processed under the hood.

Finally we have Jump Buffering. It’s essentially the inverse of Coyote time. If the player presses the jump button just before landing, they’ll jump again as soon as they touch the ground.

Using any of these can make a fundamental difference in the feel of a character.

And that’s why on day 19 of making a game, you might have learned why…