You Are A Big Winner!

December 13, 2010 3:15 PM

You'd better get the robot those letters so he can be awesome. One of the most technically challenging banner games JayIsGames has developed, Robot Wants Jig is a metroid-ish platformer in which you acquire upgrades by collecting the letters of JAYISGAMES and unlock new areas of the map. A map of the game world is below in case you get hopelessly lost.

Arrow keys to move, x to do things, up or z to jump. When the game tells you that you can "blow stuff up", they mean those red blocks that look kind of like lego pieces. Don't spend 2 hours trying to blow everything up like I did.

posted by tehloki (17 comments total)

Previously (in a big way).
posted by saturday_morning at 3:17 PM on December 13, 2010

That thread's closed, and this is a new game, in banner format. I couldn't find an open thread where I felt like people would actually see this game.
posted by tehloki at 3:24 PM on December 13, 2010

I must be an idiot, because all I can do is view the map. How do you actually, like, play the game?
posted by kenko at 3:43 PM on December 13, 2010

It is in the banner above the map.. much smaller..
posted by dobie at 3:49 PM on December 13, 2010

Why would you need a map? There's only one real route you can take.
posted by clarknova at 3:53 PM on December 13, 2010

kenko: I'm an idiot too, but after reading the comments on the walkthough, I discovered that the game is actually the banner ad looking thing at the very, very top of the page.
posted by Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drug at 3:54 PM on December 13, 2010

This is cool.

Why would you need a map? There's only one real route you can take.

As you can see from the map, there is more than one real route you can take.
posted by Avenger50 at 4:10 PM on December 13, 2010

There's some seriously squirrely control going on there. I somehow got my guy stuck constantly jumping up-and-down. And I can only accidentally shoot my gun. I have no idea how it's shooting.
posted by Thorzdad at 4:17 PM on December 13, 2010

That thread's closed

Yeah for sure. Just wanted to make sure there was a link to that older thread -- didn't mean to seem snarky.
posted by saturday_morning at 4:41 PM on December 13, 2010

Ah. I think I am just realizing "previously" has two different meanings: the way the mods use it when they delete double posts, and the more 'conventional' way as in "other related stuff previously posted on metafilter".
posted by tehloki at 4:44 PM on December 13, 2010

Good grief, how do you get the "A" in the maze of on/off switches? Either I'm missing some upgrade or they are asking for quite a skill shot with the gun.
posted by Zaximus at 4:48 PM on December 13, 2010

Never mind, I just have lousy aim.
posted by Zaximus at 4:56 PM on December 13, 2010

Wow, I wish every flash game had volume controls. Zero (0) on the numpad toggles mute on/off and +/- allow finer grained control.
posted by SpaceBass at 6:48 PM on December 13, 2010

I'm playing the "robot wants ice cream" one, and you know what? It's really fucking annoying that so much involves the flight power, because holding my down key just sends a bunch of keypress events followed by keyrelease events in rapid succession, and 95% of the time that's how the game interprets it. I've been sitting in the spaceship for ten minutes waiting to fly.
posted by kenko at 12:01 AM on December 14, 2010

"Previously" is to provide context, tehloki; "double" is to note that we've seen something before.
posted by The Confessor at 9:06 AM on December 14, 2010

Don't let's be disingenuous; plenty of people use "previously" to point out that the exact same thing was posted previously. It even shows up in deletion reasons.
posted by kenko at 11:02 AM on December 14, 2010

Yeah, "previously" seems to be the most common deletion reason, as a hyperlink to the original.
posted by tehloki at 4:44 PM on December 14, 2010