So what is one to do when one has a multiplayer server to connect to, but can only wiggle a little pixel man back and forth?

One makes all the other directions work too.

And then while I was working on it, I tripped and fell into a really great physics calculation for falling, and then I figured, since I’m already falling, I should add jumping. I tripped and fell into a good calculation for that too.

The game actually wasn’t intended to have neither falling nor jumping. Originally, the intention was just to have walking and running, and you’d just move around the level glued to the ground. Any jumping would just be faked.

But since I (literally accidentally) made it work anyway, I figured, what the hell.

Now I can torment my friends with jumping puzzles.

I love the way it looks. I find myself logging into a bunch of clients at once time just to watch the characters bounce around from different perspectives.