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Travel through towns, dojos, highways, tunnels and competition venues packed with BJJ-inspired names, characters and hidden jokes.
★ Inside JiuJitsu Island RPG
A Jiu-Jitsu world.Built like an RPG.
JiuJitsu Island RPG turns the culture, humour and progression of Jiu-Jitsu into a full adventure game. Explore a colourful island, build your character, learn techniques, battle memorable opponents and climb from white belt all the way to black belt.
GENREJiu-Jitsu RPG Adventure
PLATFORMSAndroid + iOS
ENGINETuxemon / Python / pygame
STYLE2D Retro Adventure
What is the game?
A grappling adventure that does not take itself too seriously.
The structure is classic RPG adventure: travel through new areas, meet characters, complete challenges, fight increasingly difficult opponents and unlock progression. The difference is that almost every part of the world has been rebuilt around Jiu-Jitsu culture.
Progress
Begin at white belt and work through blue, purple, brown and black. Promotions unlock tougher challenges and new parts of the island.
Fight
Build your technique set, make tactical choices and take on rivals, coaches, specialists and boss encounters across the campaign.
Laugh
Guard pulls, wrist locks, spazzy white belts and gym culture all become part of the world. The game is built for people who know the sport — and people discovering it.
Core mechanics
More than walking from fight to fight.
Your journey combines exploration, character progression, combat, collection and mini-games into one connected island adventure.
Create your grappler
Choose your name and customise physique, height, hair, face, glasses, skin tone and outfit before stepping onto the island.
Collect techniques
Your move set grows as the game progresses. New techniques and useful items give you more options when encounters become harder.
Earn every belt
Belt promotions act as major progression gates, opening roads, bosses and story chapters as you prove you are ready for the next level.
Discover the island
NPCs, shops, healing points, encounter zones, side interactions and themed locations make the map feel like a proper RPG world.
Jiu-Jitsu quiz
A dedicated quiz mini-game tests your Jiu-Jitsu knowledge with Easy, Normal and Hard modes using 5, 7 or 10 questions.
King of the Hill
The belt journey builds toward the island's biggest competition arc, where black belt is only the beginning of the final challenge.
Under the hood
Built on an open-source RPG foundation.
JiuJitsu Island RPG is built on Tuxemon, an open-source monster-battling RPG engine, and has been heavily adapted into its own Jiu-Jitsu-focused game. The project is written in Python and uses pygame for rendering, input, audio and the core desktop game loop.
Menus, encounters, maps, progression, characters, battle terminology, mobile controls and game content have all been customised around the JiuJitsu Island concept rather than presented as a standard Tuxemon experience.
GAMEJiuJitsu Island RPG
ENGINETuxemon
LANGUAGEPython
FRAMEWORKpygame
CC
Independent development
Created by Callum Carville.
JiuJitsu Island RPG is an independently developed passion project combining software development, classic RPG design and a love of Jiu-Jitsu culture. From the story and map progression to characters, battles, mobile work and release planning, the game has been shaped as a purpose-built Jiu-Jitsu adventure.
Sponsors & partners
Backed by the Jiu-Jitsu community.
The project includes support and collaboration from brands and events connected to the sport.
SPONSOR
RND1.MMA
RND1.MMA supports the project and appears within the JiuJitsu Island world as part of the game's connection to real grappling culture.
IN ASSOCIATION WITH
KING OF THE HILL
JiuJitsu Island RPG is developed in association with the King Of The Hill BJJ competition, which also inspires the game's major competition arc.
Train. Roll. Become Legend.
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Start at white belt.
Then see how far you can make it across JiuJitsu Island.