Okay I've been on gamejolt for a good long while - pretty much the 'entire existence of the site' (okay it's been like 6 months). They've been a good service? How do I know? I never hear from them and no one ever complains about trying to download from them.
A+ it works, good job kids.
It's so slick like that, that I forget it even exists. Well I got a message about Ad Revenue sharing and hey, I like money. So I check the site half a month later to check my profits.
10,000 impression, 1 dollar. Now, as far as I can tell, I am the top downloaded game on the site. In fact, I think I'm the top downloaded game by a lot. The highest download count I could find was something like 900.
I have 40 times that. If I'm making this much, what are other people making? Yeesh. ANYWAYS THATS NOT THE POINT.
I am not in the top 10. I have a 40x the downloads of the most downloaded games I can find and EVEN MORE (400x?) more then some of the top rated games. Why? I don't bug people to rate IWBTG.
But screw that, I am now.
http://gamejolt.com/freeware/games/platformer/i-wanna-be-the-guy/5/
So I ask all of you, who have played this game far more then is healthy, to try and get IWBTG into a rank it deserves. Of course theres all that 'signing up' nonsense, so I won't blame you if you don't, but I find it embarrassing that I'm not on the top ten.
Also just check out gamejolt in general. It's a great site and the guys there seem to bust their ass pretty hard.
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I Wanna Be The Guy: The Movie: The Game is a sardonic loveletter to the halcyon days of early American videogaming, packaged as a nail-rippingly difficult platform adventure. Players fill the role of The Kid, a youthful, vaguely Megaman-esque protagonist on a quest to become The Guy. This inscrutable plot, however, is just a vehicle for a wide variety of inventive, well-designed and frustrating jump-and-shoot challenges that pay homage to many of the games you loved as a child. The ever-fragile Kid explodes in a shower of red pixels at the slightest brush from the game's many obstacles, from traditional spikes and bottomless pits to more unconventional killers, such as plantlife and puzzle pieces.
Using a multiroute layout not unlike a Metroidvania, the game grants a degree of deadly exploration, without those extraneous upgades meant to make life easier. The game provides players with a choice in terms of their deathrate, thanks to a variable difficulty setting that changes the number of save points from frequent to nonexistent. IWBTG is open to all players; knowledge of videogaming history is optional, and may not help against the frequently ironic and always sadistic deathtraps located herein. And so, the question is left up to you... Do YOU have what it takes to be The Guy? -- As Written by Forum Member Finale
 Save Fixer: I Wanna Be The Fix
March 24, 2009, 02:26:28 PM by Kayin
SalamanderSSC made a fantastic tool for fixing saved games you screwed up by........ I dunno. Saving over a pit or something dumb? Way to go, guy. Well, now you aren't at the mercy of joining the forum and asking SilentLoner for a fix! Instead you can go to the download page and download I Wanna Be The Fix and do it your self!
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I'm too lazy to tell you how to do it (I'm sure someone will make an embarrassingly simple guide), but at the very least it's easy to select your save file and snap the kid to the nearest save point. And yes, you can use this to cheat. If thats REALLY what you want to do. Basically, it's pretty straightforward. Quick example here: I started a new game and saved at the first save. Open the program and find your save:    Now it'll look like this  And you edit whathever you want. In my case, I changed time, number of deaths, locations and bosses beaten. If you change location remember to click Snap to Save.  And I end up here:  Or if you're just using it to fix a fucked save, just click Snap to Save and you're done. - dsk Chat menu option!
March 05, 2009, 01:32:21 AM by Kayin
A chat button has been added to the forums and will allow you to easily talk on the #IWBTG irc channel on irc.sayuri.ca
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Enjoy. Be warned, the regulars are not a talkative lot. Brave Earth Q&A
February 11, 2009, 07:22:46 PM by Kayin
Things are sitll going slow and the game is sitll a long ways off (long long ways), but I don't mind sharing some info. I'm going to start posting stuff on my blog and the response to this will be one there.
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So feel free to ask questions. I'll pick the best ones that I can get the best answers out of to convey some knowledge to you guys. also: All Brave Earth news will be on my blog. IWBTG news will remain here though. I'd also go check to see the awesome song composed for BE by one very talented individual! edit: Answers up on http://kayin.pyoko.org/ Worst Podcast Ever #2
February 08, 2009, 09:41:46 PM by Kayin
Its available back on http://kayin.pyoko.org .
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This is the last time I'll post about it here, so you'll have to check there for updates. I'm going to try and add RSS soon.... as in... right now. |