Question 1

What is Hop Kingdom?

Accepted Answer

A side-scrolling run-and-jump platformer in the spirit of the classic 8-bit plumber games. You run right across hand-built levels, jump pits and walls, stomp the walkers, bump coins out of blocks, and grab the flag at the end. Three levels, each a little meaner than the last, and a lives count to keep you honest.

Question 2

How do I play?

Accepted Answer

Move with the arrow keys or A and D. Jump with Space, W, the up arrow, Z or K — tap for a short hop, hold for a full leap. P or Escape pauses. On a phone or tablet a pad appears over the field: left and right under one thumb, a big jump button under the other. Reach the flag pole at the far right of a level to clear it.

Question 3

How high and far can I jump?

Accepted Answer

A tap hops about two tiles. Holding jump softens gravity while you rise, so a held jump peaks a little over four tiles — enough to clear a three-block wall. At a full run a held jump carries about seven tiles, and every pit in the game is five wide or less. There's a little forgiveness built in: you can still jump for a moment after running off a ledge, and a jump pressed just before you land fires the instant you touch down.

Question 4

How do lives, checkpoints and the clock work?

Accepted Answer

You start with 3 lives (from 1 to 5 in Settings). Losing one sends you back to the last green checkpoint flag you passed, or the start of the level, with the enemies reset and a fresh 5-minute clock. Run the clock out and that costs a life too. Lose your last life and the run ends — your score, coins and the level you fell on are recorded.

Question 5

What are the levels?

Accepted Answer

There are 3: Green Hills, Cloud Steps and Dusk Ruins. A run plays them in order; clearing one unlocks it in the picker above the field so you can start a later run from there. Each level is a fixed layout — the same pits and walkers in the same places every time — so it can be learned.

Question 6

How is the score worked out?

Accepted Answer

Coins are 100, block coins 200, checkpoints 250, walkers 200 (doubling per chained stomp), spikers 400 if you launch one off a block. Reaching the flag pays 1,000 plus ten points for every second left on the clock, so a quick clean level is worth far more than a slow one. Your best score across runs is kept.

Question 7

Are the levels actually finishable?

Accepted Answer

Yes, and that's tested rather than assumed. Each level is built from hand-drawn sections, and before a build ships a headless search plays the real physics over every level looking for any sequence of inputs that reaches the flag — if a section ever landed somewhere it couldn't be jumped, the test would fail instead of you.

Question 8

Is anything saved?

Accepted Answer

Your best score, which levels you've unlocked, how many full runs you've cleared and your lifetime coin count are stored locally in your browser (localStorage), along with your settings. Nothing leaves your device, and there are no accounts.

Question 9

Does it work on phones?

Accepted Answer

Yes. A touch pad appears over the field on touch screens — you can also force it on or off in Settings — and the field scales to portrait and landscape. Landscape gives you the most room; the full-screen button hands the game the whole viewport.

Question 10

Any tips?

Accepted Answer

Hold the jump button through a long pit rather than tapping — the extra height buys distance. Chain stomps where walkers bunch up, but don't chase the combo over a pit. Grab every checkpoint you see; they cost nothing and save the whole first half of a level. And the clock only matters at the flag, so take the tricky sections slowly and sprint the flat ones.

Hop Kingdom,
run, jump, stomp.

Run, jump, and stomp your way to the flag.

How Hop Kingdom works,
in short.

Run right. Tap to hop, hold to leap.

Stomp the walkers. Never the spikers.

Bump blocks, bank coins, reach the flag.

Hop Kingdom questions, answered.