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Festival rooftops are solid ground. Sky lanterns lift you while you stand on them, but their flame burns down as you ride; when it goes out, the lantern sinks, so step off in time. A lantern you leave relights slowly, and one that has sunk far enough relights back in its place.

Bunting strings spring you high into the air. Festival drums boom you even higher than a full jump. Kites glide back and forth, parasols spin and carry you round, and sky boats rise slowly like lifts, so wait for them to come to you.

Paper screens hold for a moment after you land on them, then tear away (they shake first) and re-form a few seconds later. Cloud wisps can be jumped up through from below and stood on from above.

Each zone mixes its own platforms. The Festival Rooftops keep to roofs, lanterns, bunting, parasols, screens and drums; kites, cloud wisps and sky boats join from Lantern Drift, and each zone above leans on its own: lanterns in Lantern Drift, kites in the Kite Winds, clouds in the Cloud Sea, screens in the Storm Band, and everything at once in Aurora Heights.

Festival Rooftops (60 m), Lantern Drift (70 m), Kite Winds (80 m), Cloud Sea (80 m), Storm Band (80 m) and Aurora Heights (90 m), each with its own sky, from a rose dusk over the town to a teal night, rain and lightning, and the aurora with the stars out. After Aurora Heights, the climb starts round again at the Festival Rooftops as Round 2, and so on.

Nothing hits without warning, and no hazard ends a climb by itself; it can only knock you off a platform. The first 20 m are always calm.

Wind gusts: wind lines and an arrow on the side of the screen show which way a gust will blow, about one and a half seconds before it does. Then it pushes you sideways for a moment, never harder than you can run against. A gust never starts while a lantern is carrying you.

Drifting embers: slow sparks cross the jumps at body height, with a dotted trail showing where they're going. Touching one hops you away from it.

Lightning (Storm Band): a dark cloud gathers over a platform and a crackling ring spreads over it for nearly two seconds. Still on it when it strikes and you are thrown off. It only targets a platform with another one within easy reach, never starts while you're in the air, and never strikes under your feet twice running.

Wish slips: catch them within about one and a half seconds of each other to keep a chain going. The counter shows how many you've caught; in a level it shows how many the level holds.

Paper Glider (14 seconds): hold jump while you're falling to glide down slowly and steer a long way.

Updraft (12 seconds): jump once more in mid-air. It recharges whenever you land or bounce.

Bright Wick (12 seconds): lanterns you ride stop burning down and lift you faster, and embers burn up before they can touch you.

The Levels button opens the Wish Tree: six boughs, one for each zone, with the first zone at the bottom, and ten levels hanging from each as wish strips. That's 60 levels. They open in order: reach the gate of one to open the next. Pick a strip to see its height, your best time and its seals, and pick it again (or press Climb) to play.

Each level is always the same climb, one route up through its zone's platforms and hazards to the Wishing Hoop, a glowing gate on a terrace at the top. Levels start at 28 m and get taller, and harder, the further along the tree you go.

Each level has three seals, and each is kept once you earn it: Lit Gate for reaching the gate, Every Wish for catching every wish slip in one climb, and Swift Flame for reaching the gate within the par time shown at the top of the screen. There are 180 seals in all.

In the endless climb, every climb is new, built as you go, with routes that fork and rejoin. Every gap on the way up is within your jump, however high you get.

The higher you climb, the longer the jumps get, kites, boats and parasols move faster, lanterns burn out sooner, screens tear sooner and there are fewer spare platforms to land on. From Round 2, gusts and embers turn up in every zone.

In the levels, the climbs get taller and the hazards stronger along each bough, and the jumps get harder from the first level to the sixtieth.

Your best height, how many climbs you have played (so the control hints only show on your first few), how many wish slips you have caught in all and in your best climb, and the seals and best time for every level are saved on Unihfy Games in this browser.