# Make a character jump?!?!

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/make-a-character-jump/51004>\
**Category:** programming\
**Created:** [May 8, 2004, 5:32pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/make-a-character-jump/51004 "2004-05-08T17:32:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![iroqfox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e68b1a/32.png) [@iroqfox](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/iroqfox)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2004, 5:32pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/make-a-character-jump/51004/1 "2004-05-08T17:32:23Z")

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Hi all. I want to make an adventure side scroller like Mario Brothers, but i have no idea how to make him jump. The code i Have now makes the char jump, but if you hold the up arrow he will jump again. Please help in any way. Also if this can be done w/o a tilebased world it would be awesome.