Review: Stickman Base Jumper
Send a stick figure parachuting from a high-rise
Side-scrolling platformer / strategy game Stickman Base Jumper has just been updated for MFi controller support. Developer Robert Szeleney is responsible for several other MFi controller compatible Stickman games, though they play very differently from one another – Stickman Base Jumper is its own game.
As a game, Stickman Base Jumper packs a surprisingly strategic gameplay mechanic behind its simple graphics. Your goal is to jump from the roof of a building to a goal somewhere else on the map. To do this, you can control 2 things: the position from which your character jumps and the point at which your character deploys the parachute, both slowing their fall and stopping forward momentum. Finishing a level must be done within a certain timer, meaning that if you deploy the parachute too early, you’ll still be in the air when the clock runs out. Deploy it too late, and you’ll miss the goal or crash into something.
Stickman Base Jumper is an entertaining game, with a simple and effective presentation, at a fair price. It’s completely free to play with ads, and a $1.99 in app purchase to remove the ads. No nonsense – controls are well implemented, levels are plentiful, there is no social network spam, timers, or premium currencies. If this game looks interesting to you, give it a download and enjoy yourself – it’s a lot of fun.