The Adventures of Jimmy

Topsummoner · **Posted:** November 14th, 2010, 2:21 pm

killa kiaba wrote:

if some one was to take over, wouldn't it be better for them to add a new charactor and thus start the adventures of TimmY?

They may as well do their own adventure then.

The new topic button beckons, people.

Saten Ruiko · **Posted:** November 14th, 2010, 6:08 pm

Landerpurex wrote:

Topsummoner wrote:

Jackstick wrote:

Leanan Sidhe wrote:

I don't like the idea of other people touching Jimmy.

It wouldn't feel... like Jimmy...

Same. I know there are plenty of good artists at RV, but I like Jaron's drawing style - it's sort of become a huge part of TAoJ. I'm willing to wait for as long as we need to. :awesome:

This.

Aw, thanks, I appreciate that!

killa kiaba wrote:

if some one was to take over, wouldn't it be better for them to add a new charactor and thus start the adventures of TimmY?

No one would take over in full.

If someone wishes to do their own adventure, nothing's stopping them (Topsummoner started one, after all!) But Jimmy itself started as an idea of mine many years ago and I'd desire it to remain that way.

Meanwhile...

Jeroen · **Posted:** November 15th, 2010, 5:37 am

Jaron wrote:

Landerpurex wrote:

Topsummoner wrote:

Jackstick wrote:

Leanan Sidhe wrote:

I don't like the idea of other people touching Jimmy.

It wouldn't feel... like Jimmy...

Same. I know there are plenty of good artists at RV, but I like Jaron's drawing style - it's sort of become a huge part of TAoJ. I'm willing to wait for as long as we need to. :awesome:

This.

Aw, thanks, I appreciate that!

killa kiaba wrote:

if some one was to take over, wouldn't it be better for them to add a new charactor and thus start the adventures of TimmY?

No one would take over in full.

If someone wishes to do their own adventure, nothing's stopping them (Topsummoner started one, after all!) But Jimmy itself started as an idea of mine many years ago and I'd desire it to remain that way.

Meanwhile...

I actually had to check whether that was real or not

It's awesome regardless, of course

Saten Ruiko · **Posted:** November 15th, 2010, 11:10 pm

Jeroen wrote:

I actually had to check whether that was real or not

It's awesome regardless, of course

Hehe, nah. I make them sometimes (that's my seventh.) To be honest I wasn't very pleased with how it turned out, but since my only train of thought was "I want T-Rex yelling 'TRENT! NOOOO!' at the end", I guess it was okay for thinking it up as I went. OH WELL.

~~~

In other slightly irrelevant news (to most of us), I went back and found that, to my dismay, 5 of the 14 Flash Animations (including a couple of important ones) were broken. I've fixed all of these, and they shall plague us no longer.

[Crow] ENOUGH! I'm going to put a stop to your meddling once and for all!
[Crow] *teleports*

Sighence · **Posted:** February 10th, 2011, 1:32 pm

Landerpurex · **Posted:** February 12th, 2011, 7:27 pm

Saten Ruiko · **Posted:** March 15th, 2011, 9:20 pm

(VIEW FLASH ANIMATION) (requires sound)

Then open spoiler tag:

Rocky · **Posted:** March 15th, 2011, 9:41 pm

INCONCEIVABLE

twinArmageddons · **Posted:** March 15th, 2011, 9:49 pm

So like, what did you have in mind for Jimmy?

What did you have planned for the doors/encounters/development for Jimmy as he leveled up?

Landerpurex · **Posted:** March 15th, 2011, 10:07 pm

GIVE ME THAT PICTURE ON YOUR WALL...you know...the one with all of the Jimmy drawings... :shifty:

Long live Jimmy Image!!!!

Oh, and, err...what was the endgame?

Kikori · **Posted:** March 16th, 2011, 12:18 pm

What amazingly specific lyrics sung in Japanese. Almost like... Hey, wait a minute!!

Jackstick · **Posted:** March 17th, 2011, 10:25 am

I <3 you for that ending. I was loling within the first second, and had to restart it to catch the text. It's a real shame that this is all over, but that is an awesome way to end it.

I hope you enjoyed this as much as we did. This is easily one of the most unique projects at RV, and certainly an example of what makes RV special to us among other sites in general. Artists are always going to be critical of their own work, but I hope you realize I'm not exaggerating and I really do think this project is a special piece of our community.

Kikori · **Posted:** March 17th, 2011, 3:32 pm

Is that why it's going to get nominated for being added to the Village Archives, Jack? LIKE NOW, IF YOU DON'T MIND? <3

Saten Ruiko · **Posted:** March 17th, 2011, 8:58 pm

Jackstick wrote:

I <3 you for that ending. I was loling within the first second, and had to restart it to catch the text. It's a real shame that this is all over, but that is an awesome way to end it.

Thank you. <3 I thought so too.

Jackstick wrote:

I hope you enjoyed this as much as we did. This is easily one of the most unique projects at RV, and certainly an example of what makes RV special to us among other sites in general. Artists are always going to be critical of their own work, but I hope you realize I'm not exaggerating and I really do think this project is a special piece of our community.

I most certainly did enjoy it to death.

And I'll agree with you in that I think Jimmy ended up being my own special piece of RV (though really, I need to learn to draw! 8-[

)

It was really cool doing it all. Looking back on it, if I ignore the most recent 6-month gap but include all of the OTHER gaps, from April 19th, 2009 to September 15th, 2010, I made 508 images, 15 of which were actually Flash Animations. In 514 days. That's extremely close to one image per day for the entire run of Jimmy. (It's not the 5-7 per day average Andrew Hussie gets, but one per day for the entire run is still way more than I expected!)

arsenicCatnip wrote:

Is that why it's going to get nominated for being added to the Village Archives, Jack? LIKE NOW, IF YOU DON'T MIND? <3

Actually, hate to be a stick in the mud, but I'd prefer if it stayed here. I know a few people that aren't members of the Village (no matter how much I try) that probably wouldn't find it back if it moved. Besides, the Village Archive was made because we were deleting old topics at the time. Since that doesn't happen anymore, I don't really see much of a reason to deprive the Literary Society of one of its most active topics ever.

I appreciate the sentiment, though.

arsenicCatnip wrote:

What amazingly specific lyrics sung in Japanese. Almost like... Hey, wait a minute!!

Line 1, 3, 5, 10, and 11 are word-for-word from the real song.

Lines 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, and 9 were changed to protect the innocent to keep it relevant. So I managed to preserve about half of it, actually! :awesome:

twinArmageddons wrote:

So like, what did you have in mind for Jimmy?

What did you have planned for the doors/encounters/development for Jimmy as he leveled up?

Landerpurex wrote:

Oh, and, err...what was the endgame?

I tried to have an overreaching plot while planning as little as possible because things kept changing purely based on user responses. Like, steal the letters from the Development door to make a nametag and be sneaky? Genius. But then what's beyond the Developer-only door? ...Dunno. :oops:

I'll browse my archives and let loose a whole bunch of trivia for you guys.

Behind the "Accessible only to the Administration" panel in the elevator was either a button that took you to the roof or a button that took you to the basement. If it was the former, Jimmy probably would have met the character on the far right in my recent animation. (Has anyone figured out what it is?) If it was the latter, I probably would've turned the basement into a giant Final Fantasy 8 reference.
The Green Apex Keycard was in Hax's Managerial Locker, which Jimmy had the key for. It was a unique keycard in that there was actually a button on it, which, when pressed, made a door pop out of thin around and attach to the nearest surface. The green door on Floor 13, therefore, was actually a system not unlike Portal. The plan for the current puzzle was for Jimmy to press the button near the hole in the wall on Resandeve, which would make a door appear on the other side of the hole, then go back through the yellow door to Floor 13, then through the green door to access that super-secret area.
Resandeve's name actually came from it's entire purpose for existence: Research and Development.
At the end of the Resandeve arc, Guitierrez would've found a way to use Jaitia in microchips. Although Jeffrey from Resandeve was told that using Jaitia in microchips would allow them to reach insane computing speeds, it would do nothing of the sort. (Remember the Act II intro? "Not even those on the project know that they are helping us to take over the world!") Instead, Jaitia reacted with a certain amount of electricity, hence all the resistors/converters in Buram Castle to turn the pure 1.21 gigawatts of lightning into whatever exact amount was needed to make the Jaitia react. When it did, it basically had the same effect as a Subspace Bomb in The Subspace Emissary in Super Smash Brothers Brawl. Using Jaitia in microchips would allow Guitierrez to warp thousands of homes into this "subspace" all at once, and for some reason that I don't think I ever pinned down, this would help him take over the world.
This means that yep, Trent's alive and well, just in a floating castle in the middle of nowhere. Jimmy probably might've realized this the first time he noticed their Magic bars were still synched. By the time they found each other again, Trent would've discovered the secret basement of Buram Castle that was accessible only from Buram Village's well. (But since the subspace cut off the rest of the well, all of the water flowed out, revealing a tunnel, the second half of which Jimmy took back to the village.)
Although it wouldn't have been revealed until the Lucerne Tower arc, Jaitia is pronounced "Jay-sha", which sounds extremely similar to "spatial", because it had spatial-warping properties.
Guitierrez's other henchman, in the blue trenchcoat, was a guy by the name of Dmitrii. He had like everything in existence inside his coat. It would've been an entirely crazy and wacky boss battle encounter.
The Blue Apex Keycard, held by Dmitrii, went to Lucerne Tower, which is the location of dataDyne Corporation in Perfect Dark for the Nintendo 64. They have a giant research and development area in their basement, too. Jimmy would've had to destroy it all to stop the manufacturing of as many microchips as possible.
At the end of the Lucerne Tower arc, Guitierrez would've succeeded anyway and warped tons of homes into subspace via newly Jaitia-powered computers. Jimmy would've gained the Purple Keycard, which would lead to something just like SSBB's The Great Maze, made up of not only Buram Castle, but probably many other homes as well, and possibly even the Apex Microchips building and/or Lucerne Tower.
I hadn't thought much else out for the final endgame, since it was far enough away as it is. I have no idea if or how Jimmy/Trent would've fought Armando Guitierrez and Cassandra de Vries.
Songs I had considered at one point or other using in Flash animations:
- Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin: Dance of Sadness - Dmitrii's introduction. I was going to sing as Dmitrii, which lyrics planned out and everything, lol.
- Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story: Final Boss Music - Boss music, probably!
- Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia: Sorrow's Distortion - Boss music as well, though in the actual game this sounds better because Albus laughs maniacally right at the beginning of it.
- Country Train - Clannad - Alternate finale music perhaps, but I ended up liking the idea of parodying Angel Beats' ending much better.
- Also a couple of other things I'm probably forgetting. I had animation plans for about 20 seconds of Happily Ever After from TTGL but nothing for the rest of the song so that never went anywhere either.

Any further questions? :mrgreen:

Rayseima · **Posted:** March 17th, 2011, 9:14 pm

Well, not much of a question, but more of a request. I think it would be real nice to combine all the comics and animations together in one neat post, or add it to the possible website for the possible webcomic, if there's gonna be a website for that. Or if Jimmy's thread isn't going in the Archives, maybe the whole strip could.

Just some thoughts. Long live Jimmy!

Landerpurex · **Posted:** March 18th, 2011, 12:16 am

Rayseima wrote:

Well, not much of a question, but more of a request. I think it would be real nice to combine all the comics and animations together in one neat post, or add it to the possible website for the possible webcomic, if there's gonna be a website for that. Or if Jimmy's thread isn't going in the Archives, maybe the whole strip could.

Just some thoughts. Long live Jimmy!

This.

Easy-to-access Jimmy without searching through all the posts. Although our requests made the comic what it is, there are a lot of irrelevant/repeated requests and posts.

I'm very sad we didn't make it to the basement, I would have loved a FF8 reference filled area, heh. Thanks for all the info, it definitely puts things a but more into perspective.

LONG LIVE JIMMY!

Scar · **Posted:** March 18th, 2011, 2:42 pm

It was truely amazing while it lasted Jaron, you have quite the ability for making things entertaining and engaging for the sudience while still managing to tell a story.

twinArmageddons · **Posted:** March 18th, 2011, 3:15 pm

One last question:

Was there anything special behind the "Tingly feeling" that Jimmy got continually?

Topsummoner · **Posted:** March 18th, 2011, 4:25 pm

That was his spider sense.

Animal · **Posted:** March 18th, 2011, 10:15 pm

Rayseima wrote:

Well, not much of a question, but more of a request. I think it would be real nice to combine all the comics and animations together in one neat post, or add it to the possible website for the possible webcomic, if there's gonna be a website for that. Or if Jimmy's thread isn't going in the Archives, maybe the whole strip could.

Just some thoughts. Long live Jimmy!

All of this.

Jimmy seriously needs to be archived.

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