Originally released on PC in 2019, Nexile’s platformer Jump King: There Is a Smoking Hot Babe at the Top experienced success out of the gate thanks in part to Twitch streamers. Like many games that have flown under the radar and been pulled into the spotlight via livestreaming, Jump King became a viral hit on Twitch.
On August 8, a player-made expansion for Jump King called Babe of Ascension was released, providing fans with new content for the first time in over a year. Promoted by Nexile on the company’s Twitter account, Babe of Ascension contains a level that features images of some of the Twitch streamers who helped make Jump King popular.
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One Twitch streamer who has been showcasing Jump King since the release of Babe of Ascension is a content creator named Mizkif. A few days ago, after putting nearly seven hours into the game, Mizkif accidentally lost all of his progress when Jump King unexpectedly restarted. The streamer sat stunned for a few seconds, turning to the chat for feedback on what exactly had happened. It turns out that the game’s keyboard command for “Restart” is set to Q by default on PC. Mizkif seems to have been playing with a controller, where the Q key was bound to a button too close to Jump King’s action commands.
Realizing what had happened, Mizkif said, “That is just not fair.” The streamer then proceeded to rebind the keys on his controller and looked to see if there was perhaps a save of his progress, but he couldn’t find one. Not one to be discouraged for long, Mizkif jumped right back into the game, stating, “Yeah, I’m mad… Am I supposed to be ecstatic? That was seven hours of work gone. But I’ll get right up there. I love this game.” He played for another seven hours.
Jump King is a test of gamers' patience and perseverance similar to Getting Over It, the game with a man in a pot that become extremely popular a few years ago. The player must jump their way up a tower in an attempt to reach the top, but one wrong move can cause the player to fall and lose sometimes substantial amounts of progress. To put it in perspective, Mizkif had been playing for close to seven hours and had only climbed 35 percent of the tower.
Nexile is a relatively new indie game development studio based in Sweden, and Jump King is the company’s first game release. On Steam, Jump King has an overall Very Positive rating, and 90 percent of the posted user reviews are positive. The company is currently working on a follow-up game called Jump King Quest, which will also feature 2D platforming but will expand on story and RPG elements as well.
Jump King is available on PC, PS4, Switch, and Xbox One.
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