Careercow Jotex257 / Jotexチャンネル駅 / Jotex the Speedior - The Salty Islamic Gamer

It always blows my mind how uncritical people are of their own work.*

Take Steam Greenlight. People want to sell baby's first games on there. You don't do that.

You don;t need to hate your work or yourself to recognize that something you made is not proper for selling as a finished product. At least release it for free on Itch.io or something.



*What am I saying I've followed Chris-Chan for years I really should not be surprised.
 
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I got the malware and trojan removed thanks to a really good spyware cleaner.

Here's his plans for his next game:

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Jotex257 said:
Summary:
Planet Sengukun
World take place warring state era,new enemy have emerge from space and take control energy source called Ichorionite.
Someone Invade on Karamjina is Unknown,Uesuda take action for rescue mission,and Adventure has begun.

Features Info:
-All Hybrid Species than ordinary
-New half BearXorc
-Story will 4 factions 4 character split story 7 stages in 1 secret stages
-16-bit Graphics
-Hack n Slash 2D

Soon on SAGE 2016.
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TLDR he's going to ripoff Freedom Planet. It'll be funny to see him fail at it.
 
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How the heck did spyware get into it? He's hosting it on Mediafire, right? I don't think they inject shit into executables, not like Sourceforge does.

Also I love how he's even pretending to give his game a story when all sonic amounts to is pressing right.
 
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How the heck did spyware get into it? He's hosting it on Mediafire, right? I don't think they inject shit into executables, not like Sourceforge does.

Also I love how he's even pretending to give his game a story when all sonic amounts to is pressing right.
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They don't. The downloads always come out clean there. And given his level of programming there's no way he would intentionally place it in his file, not unless he wanted to be that much of a jerk. So either something he downloaded or uses has been infected and spreading throughout his computer, or he's aimlessly browsing dangerous places prone to drive-by installs which are a red flag for viruses and malware. He can't be bothered to check it or he doesn't have the necessary tools to remove it.

But if he is intentionally placing malware and trojans into his downloads (Which is again, really unlikely giving his poor programming) he's more of a brat and deserves to be mocked.
 
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Regardless if anyone plays it, I think we're all well aware it's an incoherent mess of randomly-placed enemies and platforms made in My First Game Maker 2012™ topped of with a firm plaster of ripped images with no sense of scope or depth so the entire screen collages into a vortex of meaningless color.
 
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I'm tempted to try installing it on to a virtual machine, and trying it out. I've heard of malware spreading from VM's to actual machines though, so unsure. Think it's worth the risk?
 
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I'm tempted to try installing it on to a virtual machine, and trying it out. I've heard of malware spreading from VM's to actual machines though, so unsure. Think it's worth the risk?
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IMO the only acceptable risk in this case is using a sacrificial computer. I don't know enough about VM's to say with certainty that they are safe.
 
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I'm tempted to try installing it on to a virtual machine, and trying it out. I've heard of malware spreading from VM's to actual machines though, so unsure. Think it's worth the risk?
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That's up to you. Theoretically, running a VM on a system means that it's totally separate from the host. They don't share memory in any way so it should be okay in theory. In practice however there are ways that a VM system can re-infect it's host and there are forms of malware out there specifically designed to fuck with a VM and the host system through it.

I'm with @Mecha-Lenin on this. Use a burner PC or one that you don't care if it gets infected. Cut any links to the internet from it and go wild. Or load up your system with anti-malware, install the game, do a complete scrub once it's loaded and take your chances.
 
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Good start so far. Froze on loading the first test zone.
Right. Had a go at it. So much wrong with it..
  1. The controls are only barely explained at the very first start of the level. There's no proper pause menu* to explain the controls to you once you leave this now-unreachable spot.
  2. The controls themselves are janky- You'd think something like space for jump, shift for speedboost right? Nope. Jump(which also spins you) is X, speedboost/sprint is E. That and the controls don't seem to respond properly half the time.
  3. The graphics are eyebreaking. Ignoring the obvious sonic ripoff MC, we have a terrible multi-tier skyboxed background that doesn't go together properly at all, tiled textures for objects which are a random mash of colours (the walls of grey stone have random coloured bits on them that *could* be flowers but it's impossible to tell).
  4. Collision detection is a mess-there's areas you can jump through which you probably shouldnt be able to, and there's very little indicator of a difference between passable semi-background stuff and actual physical blocking walls
  5. No explanation anywhere about how to beat enemies -some you can literally just run into or jump on mario style, others you have to be doing the power-spin thing, but there's no clear delineation
  6. No indicator of where you're actually meant to be going, the whole level is just a big open mess of different paths.
  7. UI is rather unhelpful, with arbitrary "meter" indicators for various things, no clear scale.
  8. The only setting you can change is, when you're loading the program, what is presented as your fps? I'm assuming it's either referring to an fps-limit or to some graphics settings that affect fps but it's blatantly unclear
  9. *The pause menu is...lacking. There is no exit-game option. No save/load. No options (sound/graphics/controls/etc). Just an unpause button, that's literally it.
  10. Doesn't get treated as a "game" by the system so I couldn't use FRAPS to capture my test or get screens (because fuck hitting printscreen and going to paint every time I want to cap something).
  11. While I didn't run into any virus/malware alerts (I use Avast, fully up to date, as well as a few anti spywares), I've deleted the whole game and zip file after testing, and am running a full system scan on the laptop. Will let you know what it finds
It's...yeah. Pretty damn bad.
 
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I'm tempted to try installing it on to a virtual machine, and trying it out. I've heard of malware spreading from VM's to actual machines though, so unsure. Think it's worth the risk?
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That's pretty impossible. I only ever heard of that happening because something in the VM overloaded the framebuffer which caused an actual buffer overflow in the VM which allowed for arbitrary code execution, but that's really rare and probably not an issue in any mainstream VM software now. The only thing malware likes to do in respect of a VM now is actually not activate, so you think it's safe to run outside of a VM where it'll see it's not in a VM and cause actual damage (I had this issue myself). So it should be safe, just don't think no malware going off means it's safe for your real environment.
 
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Runthrough Video<- short playthrough. Includes at least one instance of glitching through terrain, and most of the jumping issues were because of the jump key not firing correctly. It's not a fun game to play
Edit: Changed hosting of runthrough to Mega, more reliable
 
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A little information on this guy:

  • Around September 2015, someone made a thread on /v/ talking about Jotex as talked about in the OP.
  • The thread had a sudden influx of users, and people began to make plans for messing with him.
  • The plan was to give fake praise and encourage the creator to try and release his game on Steam Greenlight, only to watch his reaction as it was declined or given a C&D from Sega.
  • For two or three days at that time, there was a thread up, until Jotex made all his videos private.
If I recall correctly, the xXJotexFanXx account was made by an anon as part of the plan.

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