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Jelly Venture is a side-scrolling platformer in which you steer a small jelly character through a series of obstacle-filled levels. The catalogue blurb sums up the hook in one line: the jelly bounces along, and you can squish the enemies that get in its way. It is a compact game, and it opens in the browser with nothing to install.

If you came to Vex for Vex 7 and its stick-figure parkour, this is a lighter-hearted cousin. The focus is the same, moving forward through a course by timing runs and jumps, but the soft, wobbly character and the option of dealing with enemies by landing on them give it a friendlier feel than the spikes-and-saws games nearby.

A session is easy to fit around other things. You run into a level, learn where the gaps and hazards are, and try again when you miss a jump. There is no long setup between attempts, so a few minutes is enough to make progress.

How to play

Use the arrow keys or WASD to run and jump. In many platformers of this style the Down key also makes the character slide or duck, so it is worth pressing it once to see whether it does anything here. Everything else is timing.

The loop is simple. Move right, jump over gaps, and either avoid enemies or land on them to squish them. When you fail, you go back and repeat the section with what you learned.

Tips

• Take each new section in two goes. The first is for looking at the layout and the enemy positions, and the second is for actually crossing it.
• Hold the run key only as long as you need to. Pressing jump a moment before the edge, rather than at it, is usually more reliable than a late jump.
• Treat enemies as something to jump over first and squish second. Landing on one only helps when you already have room to come down safely.
• Playing with a keyboard gives the most precise control, and it is the way the controls are described.

Similar games on Vex

For the main series, Vex 7 and Vex 8 are precision parkour, with checkpoints and traps to learn. OvO and OvO 2 are faster, momentum-based runners built around wall-jumps and slides. Running Fred is closer to a pure run-and-jump game. Try Jelly Venture when you want the same basic skills with a gentler character.