File: RunAndJump.swf-(5.12 MB, 1000x600, Game)
[_] Finished version Anon 3212351 You need to be patient. Just keep walking. And stop bitching about the controls. Marked for deletion (old).
>> [_] Anon 3212353 what are the controls. i got that x is flip and j is jump but i have not the foggiest idea how to move
>> [_] Anon 3212355 >># You move by holding down R and using the arrow keys. You switch sides using S. As you continue to walk you'll get various messages depending on what side you're on. You jump using J, but there doesn't seem to be any point to it.
>> [_] Anon 3212371 >># looks like one of those too deep for you games
>> [_] Anon 3212372 >># Controls suck dick, not a complement. The game is boring as fuck, not a complement. Jumping is pointless, not a complement. You failed to be edgy, not a complement. You spend too much time jacking off to anime girls in your mom's basement, not a complement. You are way too fat to get a girlfriend, not a complement. There is way too much garbage out there for people to be making junk like this, not a complement.
>> [_] Anon 3212373 >># It was made to appeal to hipster-deep faggots buy being the most pretentious game possible. Made on /v/ a good while back. Started off as a fake game, then split in to 2 projects, one being a hipster deep game, the other being an actual deep puzzler faggot games. (which went nowhere lol)
>> [_] Anon 3212374 >># Successful troll was successful.
>> [_] Anon 3212375 >># >># At least shitpost 2deep games like The Company of Myself are vaguely interesting or imaginative The only decent thing to do in this game is press ctrl+w
>> [_] Anon 3212378 >># This game was in part made to annoy people that hate artsy fartsy deep games, as well as annoy those that actually like them. You just fell for the trap. Go play your pretentious games, fukkboi.
>> [_] Anon 3212380 >># >local man smears shit on his face to annoy people who don't like shit >little do they know it wasn't actually shit, just mud fermented and scented with authentic poop smells, sure to annoy shit enthusiasts impressive work, keep explaining a mind-numbingly obvious joke maybe it'll even be funny if you try hard enough
>> [_] Anon 3212383 >># Hey, you're the one that got mad over it. Maybe try keep your emotions in check. You can do it, I believe in you Anonymous! <3
>> [_] Anon 3212388 >># HOLD DOWN R AND PRESS THE ARROW KEYS TO MOVE WHY THE FUCK NOT JUST USE THE ARROW KEYS YOUR GAME SUCKS
>> [_] Anon 3212397 Oh fuck me I totally forgot this existed When was that on /v/? 2011? 2012?
>> [_] Anon 3212398 >># I feel like these controls are worth bitching about.
>> [_] Anon 3212402 >># >># Not my game Someone else posted an earlier version of it and I found the full version on swfchan It's certainly an annoying design choice but why complain about it here
>> [_] Anon 3212405 >># >hold R to move kys retard
>> [_] Anon 3212408 >># >being this mad at an ironic game Oh /pol/. You so salt.
>> [_] Anon 3212411 >># I tried to tell OP this last night, but no use. Too many faggy edgelords in here to keep cancer like this at bay. Just take your Daily Dose an move on. >># >GAME SUCKS That's exactly the point. >># >why complain about it here it's what we do.
>> [_] Anon 3212414 /r/ing that flash about being god's creation you're like a square and you float around eating the forbidden fruit until god kills you and forgives you i used to have it on my old PC but i can't remember the name to look for it
>> [_] Anon 3212416 >># >the only two emotions are amused and angry still isn't funny, keep defending this shitty flash Steamshovel Harry actually put effort into being garbage and that's what makes it a good flash and not just a merely-pretending-to-be-retarded trash-heap
>> [_] Anon 3212419 >># nvm found it
>> [_] Anon 3212420 hey did you know you can hold j after jumping and you ice skate? that's about the most interesting thing you can do though.
>> [_] Anon 3212423 >># Steamshovel Harry was a different kind of garbage though. It was well-crafted troll. This is just straight garbage, which was the point of the project in the first place. It was supposed to be as low-effort as possible to see if people fell for it. This game was meant to appeal to retards that like 2deep games. Which it did This is why the project split in 2 and the other 2deep faggots made an actual game, which I might upload later if I can find it. This game was never meant to have high standards or production values, or anything really. It was meant to be as empty as possible. The deep quotes and basic scenes were only added to stop people quitting out too early to see how long people would stomach the sheer emptiness. (sort of like Steamshovel Harry long-winded descriptions, this was a visual form of that) Wait, y-you didn't fall for this, did you? lmao
>> [_] Anon 3212427 >># >This is just straight garbage, which was the point of the project in the first place. which is what brought out my initial post in the chain, >At least shitpost 2deep games like The Company of Myself are vaguely interesting or imaginative It strives to be worse than the source content already is. Contemporary flash games when this became popular were of a higher quality than this, and there's no point in it. Contrast that with Steamshovel Harry, which is indeed well-crafted, in most or many ways more professional than many flash games it parodies, and absolutely worth reposting. It gets people genuinely surprised, laughing or angry, and not just exactly what you would expect: 'what the fuck is this shit?' Shit that is intended to be shit is still shit. >Wait, y-you didn't fall for this, did you? lmao No, it was fairly clear what the idea behind it was around the time I realized the control scheme was intentionally unreliable. Even the worst of 2deep4u seek to give as much agency as possible to the player so they can be awed by their introspective message. There is a reason this isn't and wasn't often reposted and yet Steamshovel Harry was. It simply is not good as an example of what it is satirizing, and it is not good as satire. Proof is in the pudding, here. The thing that gave this thread the vast majority of posts are >mild confusion about the controlscheme >discussion on the origin of the game >commentary on the shade and nature of garbage it is
>> [_] Anon 3212428 >># Because its the fucking comment section. Where people say what they are thinking. And right now, everyone is thinking that these controls are fucking stupid .
>> [_] Anon 3212429 >># Hey, didn't say it was perfect. I even called it garbage, hence the reason for posting it to annoy people on those points you mention. I know the control scheme alone would piss the fuck out of people, which it did. The extra salt was unexpected. I'll go post an actual game to make up for it.
>> [_] friendsofsandwiches 3212431 I guess I need to add this to the repliesguaranteed.swf folder.
>> [_] Anon 3212439 >># You definitely should. The complaints on the controls is killing me. >># can whine all they want, this is still a minor Steamshovel Harry in terms of whining. If nobody explained anything, it'd probably be even more infuriating. Successful troll was indeed successful.
>> [_] Anon 3212442 >># This is an impressively normalfaggy post.
>> [_] Anon 3212444 Oh, so it's intentionally designed to be as pointless and irritating as possible? Good job then, whoever you are. Also, I hate you.
>> [_] Anon 3212448 Sad man moves too fast for a sad man, you should have to hold down W for him to walk slowly. Make the involuntary switching happen more often and stick instead of just being a quick flash. When sad guy is on top, you need to (W)alk. When happy guy is on top, gotta (R)un.
>> [_] Anon 3212450 I wonder what happened to Flashguy anyway. I remember he posted on /f/ like, couple years back, but vanished. RIP.
>> [_] Anon 3212453 I get this is supposed to be making fun of art games and all that shit. But honestly there is no excuse for >Hold down "R" and press an arrow key to move. >S to switch >J to jump It would have been just as funny with a normal control setting
>> [_] Anon 3212455 Just fyi-- this is bad satire. Successful satire is fun to play. This is just like, "okay I get it." with no punch line or layered meaning or humor. This is also old as fuck
>> [_] Anon 3212456 >># It's only logical. I guess they could have gone with Shift for shift, but that's all really.
>> [_] Anon 3212457 >># >It's only logical. >Not using just the arrows keys for running (and maybe jumping too)
>> [_] Anon 3212458 >># I agree. Flashguy didn't, sadly, so kept the awful control scheme.
>> [_] Anon 3212464 these controls are retarded
>> [_] Anon 3212469 Fuck man, I remember these threads. There was so much fanart of this.

File: RunAndJump.swf-(5.12 MB, Game)
[_] Anon 1916156
>> [_] Anon 1916163 all i can do is stand around and read depressing shit?
>> [_] Anon 1916167 S inverts the game, J is for jump. Anyone know any more?
>> [_] Anon 1916177 2deep4me
>> [_] Anon 1916203 Hold R and use the arrow keys to move. did some fucking around to find this.
>> [_] Anon 1916212 >># Thanks! Okay fellas, there are only 3 things. Tree, Hangman, Chess piece. After that it loops. Shit game is shit. Nothing to do, no secrets to find.
>> [_] Anon 1916219 >># the idea is interesting though and the mechinaics work pretty well. it can be rebuilt. we have the technology.
>> [_] Anon 1916224 >># you didn't walk far enough then... On the light side the tree starts growing, on the dark side the tree crumbles...
>> [_] Anon 1916225 MUSIC SAUCE REQUEST ACTIVATE
>> [_] Anon 1916230 Jesus Christ, how tedious.
>> [_] Anon 1916250 I guess the moral of this game is that being white is alright but being black sucks
>> [_] Anon 1916256 Oh shit, they actually made it. I remember a thread on /v/ I think, where they were planning on making the MOST INDIE AND "ARTISTIC" game pointless, called Run and Jump. Intentionally terrible controls, really overreaching "artistic" direction, no actual content, and everything you want from a shitty art game. I'm inspired that they made their dreams come true(?).
>> [_] Anon 1916257 >># actually, the game shows present a future, and how things can change quickly. >subtext
>> [_] Anon 1916263 what's the start button?
>> [_] Anon 1916266 >># http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGIs3fOTc 7s
>> [_] Anon 1916271 yep, runandjump is a parody of art games that /v/irgins have been working on for at least a year under the idea that those in the art-game community would assume good faith and try to analyze it seriously. different groups all worked on their own versions and the game had died and come back repeatedly due to various teams dropping and other teams picking up. this is just one build among others
>> [_] anonymous 1916274 sad, interesting, to read, it reminds of 2 different persons a happy one and a unhappy one..i dont find this depressing at all..more interesting to watch and read but the happy white figure said nothing too bad. :(
>> [_] Anon 1916290 >># White figures text is so high up you have to have it's screen as the main one to know about it
>> [_] Anon 1916293 >># Spoilers, White is a psychopath "The smell of burning is all that reminds me i am alive" "The demons were protecting me so i had nothing to fear"
>> [_] Anon 1916301 I like this game but I think it should be deeper, they should make it start off pixelated and then become unpixelated so you feel like things are progressing and then eventually it should become pixelated again so the metaphor is that nothing really changes. All in all I thoroughly enjoyed this, it's nice to see fresh art in the gaming world. Does anybody know the source site for this game, I would like to see their other works...
>> [_] Anon 1916305 Go left. Be greeted with the actual story.
>> [_] Anon 1916307 >># Except there's nothing indicating that.
>> [_] Anon 1916323 ITT: idiots being trolled by /v/
>> [_] Anon 1916331 2edgy4me
>> [_] Anon 1916350 The controls are a bit frustrating but it is a pretty good game and it really picks up after the crib/gallows icon. It is an interesting way of getting and introspective to the two personalities which plague a single character. The notion of being doomed to running or jumping endlessly whether you are happy or depressed is really quite profound and in many ways reflects modern society. Despite being happy the white figure is very flawed and has almost built up a facade while the black character polarizes this. /it is also interesting to see the white character living in a world of darkness yet smiling and having quotes like "I stared into the abyss". Referencing Nietzsche and Emily Dickinson in this manner really adds to our understanding of the existential issues faced by both figures. >># I think the pixelated notion in games is a bit overdone and the game already loops which provides the progress metaphor you want.