Playing Tag: a walkthrough
Complete Walkthrough
- Through some selection process, such as eeny, meeny, miny, moe, one player is designated as "it".
- All other players scatter.
- While "it" tries to 'tag' one of the other players, usually with a simple tap of the hand, the other players try to avoid being tagged.
- A tagged player becomes "it" while the player previously known as "it" joins the others in tag avoidance.
- Play continues until:
- All players have had a turn being "it", or
- Players become bored, or
- Mom calls for dinner.
Now that I have your attention, I'd like to mention a couple of things we've been working on to make your experience here just a little bit better.
Hopefully you have noticed the site tags have been optimized and are now working better than ever. We've also been venturing deep into the archives to give all those long lost games and reviews the tags they deserve, so the tag listings should be looking more complete than ever as well. And yet we still have about 400 more games to tag(!)
If you're unfamiliar with tags, they are the short descriptive words that appear just underneath the game title of each entry. Clicking on one of the words will bring up a page that lists all other games that have the same tag. Using them is an easy way to find arcade games, adventure games, games based on a simple idea, games based on physics principles, games based on original ideas, unique games, point-and-click games, room escape games, etc.
Using tags is also an easy way to find all games reviewed from the same developer. For example: Nitrome games or Eyezmaze games, a couple of the JIG community's favorite developers. We have even more ideas for using tags in new and improved ways, but I cannot announce anything about that just yet.
Another new feature is the Walkthrough section for games that have a helpful strategy guide or walkthrough posted in the comments. If present, the walkthrough section will appear just above the comments section, and can be linked to directly by appending "#walkthrough" to the game review page URL (example). We've tried to locate the best walkthroughs posted so far and have added those to the new section throughout the site; however, there are still walkthroughs needed for many games(!)
If you would like to help us out, we have FREE JIG CasualGameplay T-shirts to give away to anyone that helps us. To win a free t-shirt, you must submit five (5) walkthroughs and have your walkthroughs selected to appear in the new section. Well-formed walkthroughs (yes spelling counts!) that use spoiler tags and HTML list items (ordered or unordered, whatever works best) will be chosen over those that don't. For an excellent example of a well-formed walkthrough, check out jan.jan's Dwarf Complete Walkthrough. To see what it looks like as a text file, you can download it here.
Want two t-shirts? Then get 10 walkthroughs submitted and selected, it's just that easy.
Be sure to post your walkthrough as a comment to the respective game review page and you must submit the same walkthrough to our "walkthroughs" mailbox here at Jayisgames.com. (If you have trouble constructing that email address perhaps writing walkthroughs and editing HTML isn't for you? :p) We must receive an email from you if we are to tag you with a t-shirt.
Now, get busy (because we sure have been!) =)
(BTW - You're IT!!)
Walkthrough Guide
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Walkthrough Creation: A brief walkthrough
Writing it
Select a game to write a walkthrough for
Complete game
Document your completion of the game.
Sending it
Open email client
Choose to create a new email
Set the email address field to 'walkthroughs@jayisgames.com' (without inverted commas)
Set the subject field to '[walkthrough]: game name' (replacing game name with the game's name and without inverted commas)
Put walkthrough in message body, along with a short message if you really want
Send!
Earning a T-shirt
Repeat 5 times, or as further necessary.
Posted by: fatnickc | April 13, 2007 3:35 PM