Game/Video/Platformer

• Platformer

  • Overview — A platformer (platform game) is a game genre where, like in Co/Nintendo/Game/Super Mario, traversal and timing matter: the player moves a character through levels made of platforms, gaps, and verticality, usually with running and jumping as core verbs. Fail states often come from falls, hazards, or enemies rather than from abstract puzzle rules alone.
  • Context — The label spans 2D side-scrollers, 3D action-platformers, precision (“hard”) platformers, and hybrids such as Metroidvania (platforming plus ability-gated map progression). Not every game with platforms is “a platformer” in the catalog sense; the genre tag fits when jumping-led exploration or obstacle courses are the main loop.
  • Links — Wikipedia’s Platform game article is a reasonable orientation anchor for vocabulary and history.