jump and run

jump and run

English

Noun

jump and run (plural jump and runs)

1. Alternative form of jump'n'run (“type of platform video game”)
   • 2007, Jeffrey Jensen Arnett, Encyclopedia of Children, Adolescents, and the Media (volume 1)

     For instance, players of the Mario games for the Game Boy must make the protagonist jump from platform to platform (“jump and run”) and must have good timing […]

   • 2014, Minhua Ma, ‎Manuel Fradinho Oliveira, ‎Jannicke Baalsrud Hauge, Serious Games Development and Applications: 5th International Conference, SGDA 2014 (page 118)

     The game engine is especially designed for jump and run games and furthermore for serious games due to a logging module and a questionnaire component.

   • 2015, Rachel Kowert, ‎Thorsten Quandt, The Video Game Debate (page 187)

     A basketball game will not have the same effect as a comic jump and run, a gory dungeon crawler, or an abstract puzzle game.