- 10 Level Challenges Unlocked! - 4 September 2023
You can now play the 10 level challenges in Level World
- Jumphobia: Homeward Bound Developer Blog #5 - 19 April 2022
Hello everyone, We're back again with another blog, this time talking all about the various suites of music that were composed for the game. I'm Sam, Wix's artist, and while I'm not responsible for most of the game's tracks, my contributions do include the Level Editor theme and the Sewers theme, as well as the music you'll hear in our release trailer. When we first started discussing how we wanted Jumphobia to sound, I remember strongly suggesting that we look into the sound design of Oddworld: Abe's Oddysey - a Playstation classic that I'm sure some of you will be familiar with. I could already see similarities between Abe's Oddysey and our rough build of Homeward Bound - both were side-scrolling platformers with an emphasis on puzzles, precision and patience (that's a lot of P's!) and they also both featured a grimy, dystopian setting. The Oddworld game also featured a style of music…
- Jumphobia: Homeward Bound Developer Blog #4 - 12 April 2022
Hello everyone, When making or playing any video game, the amount of fun you’ll have often comes from how well balanced the difficulty is. Whether you are playing a shooter where you can choose the level of difficulty, or a platformer where it is tailored and presented to you. Finding the balance between laughably easy, challenging, or outright unfair is something many games fail to perfect, but in most cases you want to be aiming for somewhere in the middle. When you factor in scaling difficulties, new mechanics, exploits or overpowered abilities, finding that balance becomes harder and harder to achieve. When designing and testing Jumphobia: Homeward Bound, going about setting the difficulty had its fair share of problems. As a platform style game there are no difficulty settings, but each level is made in such a way to attempt to teach a player new skills whilst remaining engaging an…
- Patch #2 - 8 April 2022
We’re back at it again with another patch! Thank you to everyone who has sent us reports to help us find these problems. Remember, if you find something wrong with the game, you can let us know by using the “Bug Report” button in the settings menu :) - Fixed bug that caused the game to softlock if you enter the robot designer while the sidebar is open - Fixed bug that let you rate Level World levels more than once - Removed ability to resize the game window using your cursor due to bugs appearing - Stopped the circuit board and power core messages appearing during Level World levels - Minor bug fixes
- Jumphobia: Homeward Bound Developer Blog #3 - 8 April 2022
Hello everyone, Level design has always been a passion of mine. There’s something quite special about creating something and watching how someone else plays it. Sometimes you can surprise them, but often they surprise you - playing in ways you never expected. Many of my favourite games growing up included a level editor, a simplified way for anyone to design their own levels without any knowledge or experience. I knew from the start of development that this was something we needed to include in Jumphobia: Homeward Bound. In this game, we have incorporated the most fully featured and easy to use level editor that we have ever made. Every single enemy, obstacle and graphic is available for you to use. In fact, the entire story mode of the game was created in this very editor! You can create to your heart’s content with no limits on level sizes, you can decorate your levels with decals and…
- Day 2 Patch - 7 April 2022
- Fixed a bug that caused the screen resolution selector in settings to break - Added basic support for screen resolutions wider than 16:9 We are aware of a bug that is causing graphical errors in the main game scene for a small number of users, making it impossible to see the character. If this happens to you, please let us know by sending a bug report from the settings menu!
- Jumphobia Has LANDED! - 6 April 2022
Hello everyone, Today's the day! Now you get to see what all the fuss is about - what almost two years worth of work culminates toward! Today - we go - Homeward Bound. Let's set our minds back to the very base experience that JHB has to offer: - Story Mode: 30 uniquely curated story missions, set across 5 hub worlds and an extra *secret* hub world for you to discover! Deep lore to uncover in the hundreds of MARE terminals scattered throughout the landscape, and more than just a few hidden secret areas - if you know, you know... - Challenge Mode: A further 28 "remixed" levels, each with a specific prerequisite for completion, and a new lick of paint to boot. - Level Editor: The heart and soul of our game's engine, and what makes the entire game possible. Get inspired, get creative, and forge some truly memorable masterpieces to play and share... - Level World: A huge library of levels, w…
- Jumphobia: Homeward Bound Developer Blog #2 - 6 April 2022
Hello everyone, In this blog, I would like to go over my transition onto Jumphobia Homeward Bound and particularly creating the game's plot. Normally when I begin a creative writing project I begin with a basic concept and branch out into something larger. This was not the case on this project. I came onto the project a little way into development and the skeleton of the game was firmly in place. On this frame, I have adorned the story. It makes the process quicker, I played through the game and extrapolated from the art and level design already created. A lot of the hard work had already been done. I interpreted what each room’s function could have been and from here named the room. I added data terminals to give hints of an overarching narrative and a wider world I had in mind in the background. As I continued to play through the game more and set the post-apocalyptic scene, my moment…
- Point and Click Adventure, 90s Inspired, The Dark Prophecy, Fully Released - 1 March 2022
The Dark Prophecy is a spiritual successor to the classic adventure games released in the 1990s by Lucas Art and Sierra. In a medieval village, Jacob is going about his rather dull, everyday life, when one fateful night, his peaceful village is forever changed, and Jacob with it. In The Dark Prophecy, players can explore beautiful pixel-art locations by choosing their own adventure dialogues using classic "look/talk/use" interactions. Welcome to a peaceful medieval village, where life is safe and calm. But one fateful night, everything changes. The Dark Prophecy is a 2D pixel-art point-and-click adventure inspired by the best retro games of the '90s. "The moment our game is released to the world is an absolutely unforgettable feeling as if you release your creation into the outside world to see how it will be received by players from different countries. These feelings justify all the h…
- 🤖 KEY DROPS & DEV STREAM 🤖 - 27 February 2022
Hello everyone! Wix Games will be live streaming Jumphobia: Homeward Bound on Feb. 27 @ 11 am Eastern (UTC -5) Be on the lookout for official Steam keys drops that will unlock the full game once it is released. If you watch, you may get a free Steam key ;) See you all in the stream! If you haven't already, you can wishlist Jumphobia: Homeward Bound below, so you don't miss the launch discount. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1781380/Jumphobia_Homeward_Bound
- 🤖 KEY DROPS & DEV STREAM 🤖 - 25 February 2022
Hello everyone! Wix Games will be live streaming Jumphobia: Homeward Bound on Feb. 25 @ 11 am Eastern (UTC -5) Be on the lookout for official Steam keys drops that will unlock the full game once it is released. If you watch, you may get a free Steam key ;) See you all in the stream! If you haven't already, you can wishlist Jumphobia: Homeward Bound below, so you don't miss the launch discount. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1781380/Jumphobia_Homeward_Bound
- 🤖 KEY DROPS & DEV STREAM 🤖 - 24 February 2022
Hello everyone! Wix Games will be live streaming Jumphobia: Homeward Bound on Feb. 26 @ 11 am Eastern (UTC -5) Be on the lookout for official Steam keys drops that will unlock the full game once it is released. If you watch, you may get a free Steam key ;) See you all in the stream! If you haven't already, you can wishlist Jumphobia: Homeward Bound below, so you don't miss the launch discount. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1781380/Jumphobia_Homeward_Bound
- 🤖 BROADCAST REPLAY 🤖 - 24 February 2022
Hello everyone! Wix Games re-broadcast Jumphobia: Homeward Bound on Feb. 24 @ 4 pm Eastern (UTC -5) If you haven't already, you can wishlist Jumphobia: Homeward Bound below, so you don't miss the launch discount. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1781380/Jumphobia_Homeward_Bound
- 🤖 BROADCAST REPLAY 🤖 - 23 February 2022
Hello everyone! Wix Games re-broadcast Jumphobia: Homeward Bound on Feb. 23 @ 4 pm Eastern (UTC -5) If you haven't already, you can wishlist Jumphobia: Homeward Bound below, so you don't miss the launch discount. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1781380/Jumphobia_Homeward_Bound
- 🤖 KEY DROPS & DEV STREAM 🤖 - 23 February 2022
Hello everyone! Wix Games will be live streaming Jumphobia: Homeward Bound on Feb. 24 @ 11 am Eastern (UTC -5) Be on the lookout for official Steam keys drops that will unlock the full game once it is released. If you watch, you may get a free Steam key ;) See you all in the stream! If you haven't already, you can wishlist Jumphobia: Homeward Bound below, so you don't miss the launch discount. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1781380/Jumphobia_Homeward_Bound
- 🤖 KEY DROPS & DEV STREAM 🤖 - 23 February 2022
Hello everyone! Wix Games will be live streaming Jumphobia: Homeward Bound on Feb. 23 @ 11 am Eastern (UTC -5) Be on the lookout for official Steam keys drops that will unlock the full game once it is released. If you watch, you may get a free Steam key ;) See you all in the stream! If you haven't already, you can wishlist Jumphobia: Homeward Bound below, so you don't miss the launch discount. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1781380/Jumphobia_Homeward_Bound
- 🤖 BROADCAST REPLAY 🤖 - 22 February 2022
Hello everyone! Wix Games re-broadcast Jumphobia: Homeward Bound on Feb. 22 @ 4 pm Eastern (UTC -5) If you haven't already, you can wishlist Jumphobia: Homeward Bound below, so you don't miss the launch discount. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1781380/Jumphobia_Homeward_Bound
- No-Jump Platformer, Jumphobia: Homeward Bound, Part Of Next Fest - 22 February 2022
Drop by and try the demo, watch the live streams, and watch for free key drops in the chat! Live stream schedule: Every day, up to and including Feb. 27 at 11 am EST (UTC -4) Live stream replay: Every day, up to and including Feb. 27 at 4 pm EST (UTC -4) Don't miss the launch discount. Wishlist your copy of Jumphobia: Homeward Bound today! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1781380/Jumphobia_Homeward_Bound
- 🤖 KEY DROPS & DEV STREAM 🤖 - 22 February 2022
Hello everyone! Wix Games will be live streaming Jumphobia: Homeward Bound on Feb. 22 @ 11 am Eastern (UTC -5) Be on the lookout for official Steam keys drops that will unlock the full game once it is released. If you watch, you may get a free Steam key ;) See you all in the stream! If you haven't already, you can wishlist Jumphobia: Homeward Bound below, so you don't miss the launch discount. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1781380/Jumphobia_Homeward_Bound
- 🤖 KEY DROPS & DEV STREAM 🤖 - 17 February 2022
Hello everyone! Wix Games will be live streaming Jumphobia: Homeward Bound on Feb. 21 @ 4 pm Eastern (UTC -5) Be on the lookout for official Steam keys drops that will unlock the full game once it is released. If you watch, you may get a free Steam key ;) See you all in the stream! If you haven't already, you can wishlist Jumphobia: Homeward Bound below, so you don't miss the launch discount. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1781380/Jumphobia_Homeward_Bound
