Run 3 Editor — Play Free Online

Run 3 Editor is a companion to Run 3, the space-tunnel runner in which you sprint, jump and drop through a track of floating tiles with nothing underneath but the void. Instead of only surviving courses somebody else laid out, this version puts the tile map in your hands: you assemble a track, then run it yourself to find out whether it is fair, brutal or simply impossible.

That makes it a different kind of session from the rest of the runners on Doodle Jump. There is no distance score to chase here. The fun is in the cycle of building a stretch of path, testing it, noticing where you fell, and moving a tile or two until the jump feels right.

It runs in the browser with nothing to install, so a track idea can go from your head to a playable test in a minute or two.

How to play

On a keyboard, move with the arrow keys or WASD. The mouse handles selecting and placing things in the editing view, so you will switch between keyboard for running and mouse for building. On a phone or tablet the game uses tap and swipe instead, although fine tile placement is easier with a mouse.

A typical round goes like this: lay out a start, add platforms and gaps, preview the run, and adjust whatever tripped you up. Gravity in this series is odd, because the tunnel wraps around you and falling off an edge means leaving the track entirely, so keep your gaps honest. A jump you can only clear by luck is not a good jump for anyone you share the track with.

Tips

• Start small. A short course with two or three distinct ideas teaches you more about spacing than a long one packed with everything at once.
• Test after every change. Moving a single tile can turn a clean jump into an unreachable one.
• Build a gentle lead-in before the hard part, so a player has a moment to settle into the rhythm before the first gap.
• If you keep failing your own track, widen the landing platform before you consider removing the obstacle.

Similar games on Doodle Jump

If you want the plain running experience, Ovo 2 and OvO game are precision platformers where each screen is a short puzzle of jumps and wall slides. Bird Jumper and Hoppenhelm lean toward the jumper side of the catalogue, climbing instead of sprinting. Helix Jump swaps the tunnel for a tower and asks for timing rather than building.

Run 3 Editor suits people who like to tinker: anyone who has ever finished a course and thought they could make a nastier one.