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Jump 'n Bump

Section: Games and Demos (6)
Updated: August 25th, 2002
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NAME

jumpnbump - Cute multiplayer platform game with bunnies

SYNOPSIS

jumpnbump [-dat level_path] [-server clients_number] [-connect hostname] [-player number] [-fullscreen] [-nosound] [-musicnosound] [-nogore] [-noflies] [-mirror] [-scaleup] [-v] [-h]

DESCRIPTION

You, as a bunny, have to jump on your opponents to make them explode. It's a true multiplayer game, you can't play this alone. It has network support.

OPTIONS

-dat level_path: Load level_path (.dat file) and use it as the level for this game.
-server clients_number: Start as a server waiting on port TCP 11111 and wait for client_numbers clients to connect before starting the game.
-connect hostname: Connect (using IP network) to remote server hostname.
-player number: Set the main player to number. Needed for networking.
-fullscreen: Run Jump 'n Bump in fullscreen mode.
-nosound: Run Jump 'n Bump without sound.
-musicnosound: Run Jump 'n Bump with music but no sound effects.
-nogore: Play without blood, familymode.
-noflies: Disable flies.
-mirror: Play with mirrored level.
-scaleup: Play with doublesize resolution (800x512).
-h: Print help.
-v: Print version, compile time and if network code is compiled in.

USAGE

The goal of the game is to jump on the other players. Each rabbit has three control keys.

Player 1 (Dott): Left - Left
Right - Right
Jump - Up
Player 2 (Jiffy): Left - A
Right - D
Jump - W
Player 3 (Fizz): Left - J
Right - L
Jump - I
Player 4 (Mijji): Left - Keypad 4
Right - Keypad 5
Jump - Keypad 8
In the game: Turn on/off computer play (AI) of bunny 1 - 1
Turn on/off computer play (AI) of bunny 2 - 2
Turn on/off computer play (AI) of bunny 3 - 3
Turn on/off computer play (AI) of bunny 4 - 4

SECRET CODES

You can type these while in the game
jetpack - you can fly
pogostick - the bunnies keep jumping
bunniesinspace - gravity is lower, you can jump higher
lordoftheflies - the flies are attracted
bloodisthickerthanwater - water turns to blood

LEVELS

There are two programs to help you make your own levels: jnbpack and jnbunpack.

jnbpack -o /tmp/newlevel.dat <file1> <file2> <file3> etc

or you can just put all the files in a dir, cd to that dir and do

jnbpack -o /tmp/newlevel.dat *

and it will put all the files in the current dir inside the packfile. Don't try things like jnbpack -o stuff.dat ../file.c because it will add "../file.c" as the filename in the packfile, which won't work.

jnbunpack level.dat
will unpack it in the current directory.

With gobpack you can convert .gob files (which are sprites, described in gob.txt) into .pcx files which you can edit with gimp for example, then convert back to a .gob and use it in your own level.

gobpack -u font menu.pcx

will unpack font.gob using the color palette from menu.pcx and write the files font.pcx font.txt. The other gob files should use level.pcx for the correct palette.

gobpack font

will generate font.gob from font.pcx and the specifications in font.txt. The .pcx files should be resaved with another program, as they are not packed and are thus very large.

AUTHORS

Jump 'n Bump is originally a DOS game by Brainchild Design, authored by Matthias Brynervall (code), Andreas Brynervall (graphics), Martin Magnusson (graphics), and Anders Nilsson (music). It was open sourced under the GPL license.

The game was ported to Linux using SDL by Chuck Mason, and since then received contributions from multiple people. See the AUTHORS file provided with the game's documentation for details.

This SDL2 port of Jump 'n Bump is maintained by the Libre Games community.

This document was created by man2html, using the manual pages.
Time: 18:43:03 GMT, February 10, 2026