TIGSource: Jimmy's Lost His Toilet Paper

Jimmy's Lost His Toilet Paper

Derek Yu — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:29:00 +0000

Jimmy’s Lost His Toilet Paper, and you’ve got to go find it! This is a new 7-day game from Petri “Fuck Yeah!” Purho. In each level you’ve got to roll up the loose toilet paper and head toward the exit, a task which is made much more difficult by platforms, crates, and other obstacles. The concept is not only incredibly cute, but it works great in practice, and creates some interesting (and challenging) physical puzzles. I’d love to see Petri polish it up a bit more (à la Crayon Physics)... for one thing, it could definitely benefit from some kind of save feature/level select screen.

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"Jimmy's Lost His Toilet Paper" by trav

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 00:08:21 +0000

tons of fun, great idea and execution, love the music. Top work

"Jimmy's Lost His Toilet Paper" by IamLate

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 09:06:51 +0000

Very fun. I loved the music and the silly graphics and off-the-wall concept. The gameplay feels loose.

I think that the toilet paper is too heavy. The toilet paper gets in the way of movement (esp block pushing), and it makes pulling and gathering the toilet paper to finish too much of a chore.

"Jimmy's Lost His Toilet Paper" by cougarten

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 07:51:27 +0000

down… can anyone mirror it?

"Jimmy's Lost His Toilet Paper" by the2bears

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 14:40:36 +0000

@Bezzy, I think the imprecision of the movement is likely a side effect of using Box2D for the physics. Because of it’s nature (I’m not criticizing it here) you get “floaty” movement. Platformer movement, or shmup movement, should probably not use the physics engine. Things just tend to “not feel right”.

Bill

"Jimmy's Lost His Toilet Paper" by jkd

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 10:29:53 +0000

Pretty awesome. Kudos to Petri. I think this idea is worth expanding on.

"Jimmy's Lost His Toilet Paper" by Bezzy

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 09:23:13 +0000

Very very cool. I couldn’t stop playing until I finished.

(I am fully reminding myself the exceptional time frame this was done in [and am aware that I could do no better] but I’d still like to make a comment…)

Some of the raw player movement felt a little imprecise, possibly due to the constant tug of the TP? Or just low friction? For some reason, in my minds’ eye, I’d like this to feel as crisply controllable as a pixel platformer, but it still has a lot of the telltale kinaesthetic artifacts which come with a more general purpose physics engine. It’s very hard to marry both those styles of control.

As I say, really awesome. I’m just being a picky fucker and hope that this becomes a whole game - especially some bionic commando style swingy puzzles, or pulling a block up by pulling on the TP… so many puzzles spring to mind which could work out with a little tweaking. Really enjoyed it. Well done again, petri.

"Jimmy's Lost His Toilet Paper" by Guesst

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 12:42:01 +0000

Harmen… Bad. ‘Out of Paper’ exception… bad.

More games needs a weighted tether. Imagine Mario vs Donkey Kong with that added in and you’d pretty much have my vision for Jimmy Lost his TP gold.

"Jimmy's Lost His Toilet Paper" by PHeMoX

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 05:53:28 +0000

It crashed here too, just like ZAN! said. I actually wanted to make use of having a bit more weight from toilet paper on one side, so I let it unroll and unroll… but unfortunately it crashed because of that. :(

"Jimmy's Lost His Toilet Paper" by Harmen

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 02:14:25 +0000

Zan, that’s what they call an ‘Out Of Paper’ exception.

"Jimmy's Lost His Toilet Paper" by ZAN!

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 21:04:44 +0000

I’ve noticed you can induce a crash by letting your TP unroll too far. I happened by accident when I was standing on an elevator.

"Jimmy's Lost His Toilet Paper" by Neddo

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 20:53:09 +0000

I love the idea and I love the style, but the controls ruin this for me. They’re way too loose and slippery.

"Jimmy's Lost His Toilet Paper" by AClarkFS

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 18:13:40 +0000

Very interesting concept, and fun even if this game type isnt my forte.

"Jimmy's Lost His Toilet Paper" by ZereoX

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 15:37:02 +0000

This game ROCKS, I just Finished it. I wish he makes a full fledge game with more stuff.

"Jimmy's Lost His Toilet Paper" by Bas

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 15:34:42 +0000

I absolutely love this…. the sexy looking paper and the clever level design. Great little game!

"Jimmy's Lost His Toilet Paper" by Guesst

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 07:42:34 +0000

Forgot to mention, that’s some brawny tp he’s using. No brand I know lets you dangle from it.

"Jimmy's Lost His Toilet Paper" by Guesst

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 07:36:42 +0000

And the award for best use of toilet paper physics in a video game…

"Jimmy's Lost His Toilet Paper" by Mike hawk

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 05:27:22 +0000

This was up on Indiegames last week.

better late than never I guess

"Jimmy's Lost His Toilet Paper" by Tr00jg

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 05:16:20 +0000

Loved this! The twisted smiling face and the music. Not to mention the obvious experimental gameplay. Go Petri!

"Jimmy's Lost His Toilet Paper" by muku

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 02:40:14 +0000

Awesome. The best part of it is holding on to your roll and dropping off a high platform: Toilet Paper Bungee Jumping.

Unfortunately, just crashed on level 10.

"Jimmy's Lost His Toilet Paper" by Jeff Lindsay

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 02:33:38 +0000

Nice, and a link to the DB

"Jimmy's Lost His Toilet Paper" by Starshot

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 02:12:15 +0000

Absolutely astounding experimental game. I would love to see a full fledge game made out of this. Though, I must admit, with the American economy as it is, you could easily profit by changing the theme.

Jimmy’s Lost His Food Stamps!

"Jimmy's Lost His Toilet Paper" by Neon

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 23:41:57 +0000

Argh, loved this game ‘till i ended up crashing it by jumping half on and off an elevator in one of the last levels.

Need a save feature.

"Jimmy's Lost His Toilet Paper" by crackers

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 20:59:02 +0000

The music totally makes this. And the ending screen.

"Jimmy's Lost His Toilet Paper" by Tanner

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 20:36:09 +0000

ARGH I CAN’T GET PAST THE LEVEL WITH THE TWO BOXES ON TOP OF EACH OTHER WITH THE TOILET PAPER IN BETWEEN THEM RARARARARARARARAR /caps

"Jimmy's Lost His Toilet Paper" by spacechillie

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 20:08:31 +0000

CAVE STORY RI- is shot