Leap of Life

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📝 Special Statement

Prepare yourself, Precision Jumper, for the philosophical and kinetic terror of Leap of Life: The Calculus of Survival! 🤯🪂 This is a deceptively simple, yet monumentally difficult, short game that offers a true challenge by making your primary method of movement your ultimate vulnerability.

The Cruel Calculus: Life as a Limited Resource 💔

In this minimalist platformer, the stakes are absolute, and your every action carries a terrible cost. The core mechanic is a brutal paradox:

• The Cost of Movement: Every jump you make is a step towards victory but also a step towards losing a life! This is the game's central, unforgiving truth. You start with a set number of lives, and each time your character leaves the ground, that number decreases.
• The Zero-Jump Threat: Your task is to preserve each jump by reducing unnecessary movement. If you deplete your total lives (your Jump Counter hits zero) before reaching the finish, you fail the level instantly.

The Strategy: Precision and Pathfinding 🧠🎯

This is a game of calculated desperation, forcing you to elevate platforming from a test of reflexes to a high-level puzzle:

• Calculating Your Path Precisely: You must approach the levels not as a continuous run, but as a series of minimalist solutions. Every move must be planned in advance to ensure the shortest possible path to the next stable platform. A successful jump is not one that clears the gap, but one that preserves the most possible lives.
• The Optimal Route: You must find the Optimal Route—the one requiring the fewest total jumps. This might involve complex wall-slides, careful drops, or unconventional momentum control to reach ledges without wasting a precious leap.

The Victory Condition 🚩

Success in this short game is achieved by conquering the architectural nightmare and reaching the goal under the most severe constraints:

• Completion: The victory condition is to complete the current level's puzzle by reaching the designated exit point while still having lives remaining.

Leap of Life is a masterful exercise in restraint and planning. You must calculate every movement precisely to avoid depleting all your lives. Good luck with your calculus!

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