Synopsis

Germ Jump is an arcade platformer envisioned as a late competitor to Sonic the Hedgehog™ (with a way smaller budget). As the sickest germ in the world, you travel into the stomachs of humans and bounce around to get insane airtime, performing midair tricks and landing on your feet-like appendages for your popular daredevil videos. You have to bounce around enough to get your unwilling host to throw you up so you could move on to the next fleshy bouncy castle before the host’s antibodies send you packing.

Hypothetical History

With the release of Sonic the Hedgehog 3™ before the console’s launch on the Sega Genesis™, and with Sonic & Knuckles™ releasing in a few months, the S.I.C.K. creators wanted a game that would appeal to a similar “cool-guy” audience for their console. Thus, they contracted a small team, Fun Socks, for a Sonic-killing platformer. However, with only a limited time between conception to release, the result was a small-scale platforming arcade game where the player is a germ jumping inside the thin, tall space of a human body. Because of the game’s simplicity and its rather gross playable character, Nor, the game faded into obscurity.

However, concept art and a prototype have been undercovered in illegal emulation groups around Chicago.

Credits

Music

"Pixelland" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Sounds

• All sounds generated from free version of sfxr, originally created by DrPetter with this web browser version by Eric Fredricksen and Chris McCormick https://sfxr.me/,

Moveset

Keyboard

• Space: charge jump when making contact with a bouncy platform
• Directional/WASD keys: move player left/right
• Q/E/N/M keys: rotate player left/right
• Ctrl/Space: trick

Xbox Controller

• A/B: charge jump when making contact with a bouncy platform
• Left joystick/D-pad: move player left/right
• Shoulder buttons: rotate player left/right
  
• X/Y: trick

Tips

• Keep your bottom aligned with the ground as accurately as possible; the worst your orientation is when landing on a bouncy platform, the worst your bounce will be