History VideoGame / HiveJump

--> "[[Film/StarshipTroopers We're from]] UsefulNotes/StLouis, [[Film/StarshipTroopers and we say kill 'em all!]]"

* FungusHumongous: There's a "green" biome that features large mushrooms, some of which can be jumped on to launch you upwards a la ''VideoGame/Sonic3AndKnuckles'', while others will instead spit [[TechnicolorToxin purple]] DeadlyGas at you.

Presently there is an "Arcade" mode, as well as daily and weekly run challenges, with a "campaign" mode planned. Players can select their loadout and cosmetic appearance prior to beginning a run. Once in game, the players must negotiate a series of [[ProceduralGeneration procedurally-generated]] stages, with every third stage being a fight with a random boss. Along the way, you can collect bug "goo", which is used as a currency to purchase upgrades for your equipment that persist between runs. You can also find upgrade items that provide passive buffs, but these do not persist. The [[FinalDeath Permadeath]] is handled in a unique way: One player carries an AwesomeBackpack that acts as a spawn point. Players can infinitely respawn as long as this backpack is around, but it can be damaged by the enemies if it's dropped and if it's destroyed, you're out of respawns.

Presently there is an "Arcade" mode, as well as daily and weekly run challenges, with a "campaign" mode planned. Players can select their loadout and cosmetic appearance prior to beginning a run. Once in game, the players must negotiate a series of [[ProceduralGeneration procedurally-generated]] stages, with every third stage being a fight with a random boss. Along the way you can collect bug "goo", which is used as a currency to purchase upgrades for your equipment that persist between runs. You can also find upgrade items that provide passive buffs, but these do not persist. The {[Permadeath}} is handled in a unique way: One player carries an AwesomeBackpack that acts as a spawn point. Players can infinitely respawn as long as this backpack is around, but it can be damaged by the enemies if it's dropped and if it's destroyed, you're out of respawns.

* AllThereInTheManual: There's a codex in the game, detailing background information on the bugs, your equipment, persons of interest, terminology and so on.
* BugWar

* {{Permadeath}} Only if the backpack gets destroyed- as long as it's intact, you have infinite lives.

* SlippySlideyIceWorld: The ice caverns feature ice patches for you to slip on- sometimes into spike walls. There's also StalactiteSpite.
* ShoutOut: Many to Film/StarshipTroopers, [[WholePlotReference if the premise didn't give it away.]]

--> "[[StarShipTroopers We're from]] [[UsefulNotes/StLouis St. Louis]], [[StarShipTroopers and we say kill 'em all!]]"

''Hive Jump'' is an up to four-player [[CoopMultiplayer cooperative]] RunAndGun game in the vein of {{Contra}}, with a heavy dose of [[{{Roguelike}} Rogue-lite]] elements. Developed and released by Graphite Lab and released on July 20, 2016 after a successful {{Website/Kickstarter}} campaign, the game is presently in Early Access.

[[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture It is the year 2356.]] Humanity faces losing a BugWar against the Ordovicians, or "Vics". Our only hope for victory is the JUMP Corps, a squad of [[ElitesAreMoreGlamorous elite]] [[SpaceMarine space marines]] who deploy via ground-penetrating [[DropPod drop pods]] straight into the Vics' hives, in an effort to assassinate their [[HiveQueen queens]] and [[KeystoneArmy stop their swarms at the source.]]

* FungusHumongous: There's a "green" biome that features large mushrooms, some of which can be jumped on to launch you upwards a la VideoGame/Sonic3AndKnuckles, while others will instead spit [[TechnicolorToxin purple]] DeadlyGas at you.

* ShoutOut: Many to StarshipTroopers, [[WholePlotReference if the premise didn't give it away.]]

* FungusHumongous: There's a "green" biome that features large mushrooms, some of which can be jumped on to launch you upwards a la Sonic3AndKnuckles, while others will instead spit [[TechnicolorToxin purple]] DeadlyGas at you.

''Hive Jump'' is an up to four-player [[CoopMultiplayer cooperative]] RunAndGun game in the vein of {{Contra}}, with a heavy dose of [[{{Roguelike}} Rogue-lite]] elements. Developed and released by Graphite Lab and released on July 20, 2016 after a successful KickStarter campaign, the game is presently in Early Access.

* ProceduralGeneration: The levels have randomized layouts, with each set of three stages also having a random one of several UndergroundLevel biomes, and all wouldn't look out of place in {{Metroid}}: Basic rock, ice, lava, and the mushroom one, which resembles Upper Brinstar.

''Hive Jump'' is an up to four-player [[CoopMultiplayer cooperative]] [[HorizontalScrollingShooter side-scrolling]] run-and-gun game in the vein of {{Contra}}, with a heavy dose of [[{{Roguelike}} Rogue-lite]] elements. Developed and released by Graphite Lab and released on July 20, 2016 after a successful KickStarter campaign, the game is presently in Early Access.

[[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture It is the year 2356.]] Humanity faces losing a BugWar against the Ordovicians, or "Vics". Our only hope for victory is the JUMP Corps, a squad of [[ElitesAreMoreGlamorous elite]] [[SpaceMarine Space Marines]] who deploy via ground-penetrating [[DropPod Drop Pods]] straight into the Vics' hives, in an effort to assassinate their [[HiveQueen queens]] and [[KeystoneArmy stop their swarms at the source.]]

* DuringTheWar: And it's not going well. The bugs routinely wipe out outlying colonies and force refugees inward towards humanity's core worlds, creating both overpopulation and resource shortages.

* ProceduralGeneration: The levels have randomized layouts, as well as randomized tilesets in the form of various types of caverns, and all wouldn't look out of place in {{Metroid}}: Basic rock, ice, lava, and greenish mushroom-filled ones that resemble Upper Brinstar.

* SpaceMarine: Your character.
* SpikesofDoom: In full force, and especially so in the optional "challenge rooms".

* SpikesAreEverywhere: In full force, and especially so in the optional "challenge rooms".

''Hive Jump'' is an up to four-player cooperative [[HorizontalScrollingShooter side-scrolling]] run-and-gun game in the vein of {{Contra}}, with a heavy dose of [[{{Roguelike}} Rogue-lite]] elements. Developed and released by Graphite Lab and released on July 20, 2016 after a successful KickStarter campaign, the game is presently in Early Access.

Presently there is an "Arcade" mode, as well as daily and weekly run challenges, with a "campaign" mode planned. Players can select their loadout and cosmetic appearance prior to beginning a run. Once in game, the players must negotiate a series of [[ProceduralGeneration procedurally-generated]] stages, with every third stage being a fight with a random boss.