Game my friend (RIP) and I released 20 years ago today on Newgrounds
Today 20 years ago my friend Tyler and I released a game we called Jive Machine. He was a chubby kid who played a game by AntiClockClock and thought it would be a lot funnier if he took his shirt off and people could make him dance. With the idea in mind, he set up his webcam and recorded many different clips.. if you go through the alphabet and number pad you can actually slowly watch the clay he used drooping the camera..
Before memes were memes we were laughing at YYMNDs, and most of the songs used in the game were popular on YTMND at the time. Visually references are Newgrounds lore, strawberry clock, pube muppet to name a couple. With some basic actionscript skills I synced the videos to play on keypress, made some backgrounds, built up a little menu and how to and we were off!
The game scored Daily Feature and Monthly Second place, and made it on the frontpage for a while. The game was a hit, and views were flying in. Somehow it passed a million views, which in today's standards is no big deal, but in 2006 Tyler and I were blown away; somehow over a million people saw his underage moobs. I do credit some of the clicks specifically from the up-close picture of his nipple and pecs that we used as the small thumbnail.. bonk jail!
Tyler would sadly pass away 16 years later, but I still get views and comments that make me think of him and those goofy times and smile. I'm glad people are still making him shake it, and his spirit and absurdity lives on.
Looking back at the game I can see what kids we were, the spark of youth could be seen in Tyler's eyes if his webcam wasn't so awful. I gotta admit, making Tyler dance when replaying the game is still pretty fun. A simpler time when content was made for laughs instead of clickbait..
So come take a stroll down memory lane and make Tyler shake it 20 years later.
Oh if you look at the credits and you ask who "Dave" is, he used to go by Dave on NG but gave the name up and changed to "Life"