Playbook
How to play Keep Up
Gravity pulls the ball down. Tap near it to send it back up and score a touch. Let it hit the floor and you lose a life. Rhythm and placement beat frantic mashing as the bounce gets livelier.
Controls
Tap or click near the ball to bump it upward. Keyboard players can press Space when the ball is in the lower half. Wide frantic taps far from the ball do nothing useful.
Scoring and lives
Each clean touch scores. Combos grow if you keep the ball off the floor. A floor hit costs a life. Three lives. The bounce gets snappier as the combo rises.
Habits that raise the ceiling
Meet the ball under its center, not beside it. Let it drop into a comfortable strike zone instead of punching it into the ceiling. Reset your hand after each touch.
Common mistakes
- Mashing the whole canvas hoping a tap will register
- Poking the ball at the peak so it barely moves
- Chasing a ball you already knocked into a corner
A two-minute drill
Score ten touches while keeping the ball below mid-screen. If it goes high, let it fall and try again. The drill is a low juggle, not a firework.
This page is a complete how-to, not a wrapper around an ad. If you want more depth, the journal explains practice, lives, and fair difficulty for the whole arcade.