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Go-inovation
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About the game
Go-inovation is a version, written in Go, of "Inovation 2007", a small Japanese platformer by Omega. The story is one line: you wake up and you are a wild boar, you are inside a dream, a druid tells you that you are the hero of the "first dream of the year" and that only you can find the three sacred treasures, and your boar blood starts to race. Those treasures are a mountain (Fuji), a hawk and an eggplant, a New Year's omen in Japan, and finding all three is how you clear the game.
You do that by exploring one big maze of white blocks, thin platforms, spikes and little rooms, jumping from ledge to ledge and off the walls. You start with three hearts and each touch of a hazard costs one. All along the map are pick-ups, and each one interrupts the game with a short, odd, often funny message in the original's own broken English or in Japanese, some of them quite useful: one gives you an extra jump in the air, another adds a heart. Clearing the game shows a results screen with the number of items and your time, followed by the credits, and there is a secret command on the title screen for a harder mode in which you have a single heart.
The game plays in the language of your browser, English or Japanese, and you can switch with the L key. The music is by "Don" and the maps by Omega and friends, and the port to Go is by Hajime Hoshi, the author of the Ebitengine engine.
Playing it here
Click Play, wait for the download (the game is about 7 MB and loads once) and click inside the game so it gets the keyboard. On the title screen press Space. The game does not save anything. Once you are in, the controls are only a few keys.
Controls
| Input | Action |
|---|---|
| Left and right arrows | move |
| Space or Enter | jump, and confirm |
| Down + Space | drop through a thin platform |
| F | full screen |
| L | English or Japanese |
Tips
Jump from walls. You can jump again while you are against a wall, so a tall shaft is a ladder.
Press Down to drop. To get down through the thin platforms you press Down and the jump key together.
Read the pick-ups. Each one shows a message when you grab it; press Space to carry on. Some are jokes, some change how you play.
Take your time. It is a hard game and the map is not small. There are no saves, but a run does not take long.
Frequently asked questions
Why is the text so strange? The English of the original is a deliberately rough translation made by the author and friends, as a joke, and it is kept as it is.
What is the Japanese text? The same game in Japanese. Press L to change the language, or set your browser to Japanese.
Does it work on a phone? It has a touch mode, but it is made for a keyboard, so a computer is better.
Credits and licence
Inovation 2007 was made by Omega (O-MEGA), with music by Don; the JavaScript port is by Haneda3 and the Go port, which is the game on this page, by Hajime Hoshi. The game is distributed under the MIT licence, the text of which is on this page. For this site the pick-up messages of seven items, which named commercial brands and games, were changed to generic names, and the letters "POed" were erased from the picture of one of them; nothing else was changed. The source of this build and the patch are linked from this page.