Cloud Bounce

What is Cloud Bounce?

Cloud Bounce is an endless jumping game. The bunny bounces on its own every time it lands on a cloud, so your whole job is steering left and right to land on the next one. Your score is how high you get, in meters. It's free, it runs in the browser on a phone, tablet or computer, and there's no download.

The sky changes as you climb, and so do the clouds. The first 60 meters are friendly. After that, things start breaking, sliding, blowing and zapping.

How to play

• Phone or tablet: hold your finger on the left half of the screen to drift left, the right half to drift right. Let go to slow down.
• Tilt: on the title screen, switch Tilt on and steer by tipping your phone.
• Keyboard: Left and Right or A and D. P or Esc pauses, and Enter or Space starts from the menu.

The screen wraps around. Drift off the left edge and you pop back in on the right. You only land on a cloud while you're falling, so you can bounce straight up through a cloud from below and land on top of it on the way down. The run ends when the bunny falls off the bottom of the screen.

Clouds and things in the sky

Being dizzy only lasts a moment, but your steering is very weak while it does, which is usually what makes a storm puff hit end a run.

The game gets harder up to about 1,000 meters. Clouds get narrower and the gaps between them get wider.

The sky zones

Every new zone gets a banner and a little burst of confetti, and every 100 meters in between gets a small chime.

Daily Sky and leaderboards

Play is the endless mode with a new sky every run. Daily Sky gives everyone the same cloud layout for the day, so you can compare heights with friends, and it keeps a day streak. Signed in players can post both to the leaderboards with the trophy button on the game over screen.

The Wardrobe

Carrots you collect are saved after every run. Spend them on outfits for the bunny.

Tips for bouncing higher

There's always a safe cloud

The sky is built so a solid cloud (not crumbly, not a gray rain cloud) is always within one normal bounce of the last solid one. You never actually need a crumbly cloud. If the only thing in reach is crumbly or gray, look again, a white or moving cloud is up there somewhere, possibly across the screen edge.

Use the wrap

If the next cloud is near the far edge, it's often closer to go the other way and wrap around. Players who forget the screen wraps spend a lot of runs drifting the long way.

Steer early, then let go

The bunny speeds up and slows down smoothly rather than stopping dead. Start moving while you're still rising, then release a little before you're over the target so you drift onto it instead of overshooting. Little taps work better than long holds once clouds get narrow.

Watch the peak of each bounce

At the top of a bounce you hang for a moment. That's the best time to look up and pick the next cloud, because you only land while falling.

Treat moving clouds like a target that's walking

Aim where the cloud will be when you come down, not where it is now. Moving clouds bounce back off the sides of the screen, so near an edge, expect them to turn.

Springs and balloons are free height

A spring sends you 1.75 times higher than a normal bounce and a balloon lifts you for over two seconds. Both are worth going a little out of your way for. Keep steering on a balloon, though, because when it pops you drop onto whatever is below you.

Give storm puffs space

From 350 m on, storm puffs drift across the sky. A hit knocks you downward and kills your steering for a moment. If one is drifting toward your path, wait a bounce or wrap around it.

Grab carrots on the way, not instead

Carrots tend to float just above clouds, so you'll collect plenty without detours. A missed carrot is one carrot. A missed cloud is the run.

Questions