---
title: "Power Up Adventure"
subtitle: "Provide power to the player as you run and gun through this GameDev.js Jam 2024 \"Build It with Phaser\" winning entry."
date: 2024-05-16T11:00:00.000Z
category: game
url: https://phaser.io/news/2024/05/power-up-adventure
site: Phaser - https://phaser.io
copyright: © 2026 Phaser Studio Inc. All rights reserved.
---

# Power Up Adventure

*Provide power to the player as you run and gun through this GameDev.js Jam 2024 "Build It with Phaser" winning entry.*

![image](gamedevjs-jam-2024.png)
![image](power-up-adventure1.png)

Power Up Adventure by Stiggstogg was entered into the [GameDev.js Jam 2024](https://itch.io/jam/gamedevjs-2024) in the **Build it with Phaser** category, where the Phaser team ranked it in third place.

Here is what the Phaser Studio team thought of it:

"So good and so frustrating in equal measure! Such a brilliant concept, too - the way the power-ups speed towards the player adds a whole other dimension to factor in when timing dropping them. Visually it was brilliant and I loved the music and effects. Solid, polished, mostly on-theme and unique. I feel like a nice player affordance would be for you to drop a 'marker' at the top when you use a power-up, like a ghost-marker, so you can see it on your next playthrough. I appreciate that may make the game easier, but believe me, by level 5 I really needed it! :)"

![image](power-up-adventure2.png)

"Power-up Adventure is a really nice platformer game, where you send blocks to our running character to jump over fatal obstacles. Art style is really catch, mechanics are butter smooth with the cool music on the background!"

[Play Power Up Adventure](https://stiggstogg.itch.io/power)

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