The Last Guy Everywhere (lost promotional online game for "The Last Guy"; 2008)
Picture of the lastguy.jp website, taken from the Wayback Machine snapshot dated August 5th, 2008.
Status: Lost
The Last Guy Everywhere (Japanese: どこでもラストガイ) was a promotional web browser Flash[1][2][3] game created by Dentsu Inc.[4] and IMG SRC[5][6] to promote[7][8][9][10][11] the 2008 PlayStation 3 title The Last Guy.[12] It was developed by Nobu Funaki,[13] Masataka Hosogane,[4][14] Hiroki Nakamura, [15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23] Okuyama Kazya,[24][25][26] and Yuki Kishi.[27][28][29][30][31][32][33]
Gameplay
The website allowed players to play a simplified version of the original PS3 game using any website as the stage. [34][35][36] Upon inputting the desired website, a playable map based on said website would be generated, with features like images being turned into buildings housing citizens. [37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48] Some sites would not work due to their lack of white spaces.[49][50][51][52][53][54][55][56][57][58][59] Players would control the titular character by moving the mouse, with the mouse scroll being used to zoom in and out of the map. [60][61] Just like the original game, players would rescue survivors by taking them out of their hiding spots and relocating them to the "Escape Zone", while avoiding enemy Zombies. [62] Pressing the space bar would activate the "heat camera" function from the original game, used to locate people within buildings. [63][64][65][66]
Player scores were globally ranked on a leaderboard, along with a poll of the recently played websites. [67]
The website offered a bookmark so that players could activate the game at any time, along with a blog widget that could allow specific sites to activate the game's function. [68][69][70][71][72][73][74][75][76][77][78][79]
Awards
During the game's lifespan, it won multiple awards in the span of three years. It first won the Yahoo! Japan Internet Creative Award 2009 in the Corporate Division Grand Prix on November 18th, 2009.[80][81][82][83][84][85][86] The second award it won was the 2009 Tokyo Interactive Ad Award at Gold rank for Interactive Ad.[87] The third award it won was the One Show 2009 award as a Finalist at Silver rank in the Interactive category.[87][88]
Availability
The site was originally registered on August 5th, 2008.[89] Archives from the Wayback Machine for lastguy.jp show that the site was online from August 5th, 2008 to February 16th, 2010. [90][91][92][93]
Numerous images exist of the website, along with at least four gameplay videos, however the files for the game itself have yet to surface.
Gallery
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External Links
- Gameplay footage from The One Club.
- Gameplay footage from Blogspot
- Gameplay footage from nicovideo
- Screenshot slideshow from nicovideo
- Mention in "One Show Interactive, Volume XII"
- IMG SRC awards (mentioned in list)
- "9 Reasons Japanese Interactive Work Is Awesome 2" by Adam Rattner (mentioned in "Distribution" slide)
- "Repositorio de revistas tuxinfo" (mentioned in book)
- Text version of "Repositorio de revistas tuxinfo"
References
- ↑ http://www.letsbet.ie/forum/showthread.php?2919-Flash-Games-Thread
- ↑ https://www.thesixthaxis.com/2008/07/31/play-the-last-guy-now/
- ↑ http://www.ysig.jp/2008/12/web-805.html
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 https://www.campaignlive.com/article/campaign-promotion-celebrating-old-harnessing-new/1016460
- ↑ https://compe.japandesign.ne.jp/report/yjica2009/
- ↑ http://sakidori-blog10.cocolog-nifty.com/blog/2008/09/post-2b84.html
- ↑ http://yuutarin.blog10.fc2.com/page-3.html
- ↑ http://kyojinnokatanouekara.blog32.fc2.com/blog-entry-142.html
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- ↑ https://japan.cnet.com/blog/staff/2008/07/31/entry_27012647/
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- ↑ http://www.kara-full.com/hibi/web-sites/090920_fw.html
- ↑ http://zuzara.com/pub/resume.pdf
- ↑ https://webtan.impress.co.jp/e/2010/01/07/7070/page/1
- ↑ https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B8%AD%E6%9D%91%E6%B4%8B%E5%9F%BA
- ↑ https://book.mynavi.jp/wd/special/nakamura/
- ↑ https://yahoojp-marketing.tumblr.com/post/110142341008/5
- ↑ https://pickles.tv/blog/archives/2082/
- ↑ https://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2009/D306
- ↑ http://news.harmony.ne.jp/entry747.html
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- ↑ http://sinsotu.blog101.fc2.com/category13-2.html
- ↑ https://www.excite.co.jp/news/article/Getnews_25371/
- ↑ https://kyucon.com/
- ↑ https://getnews.jp/archives/25371
- ↑ https://www.sostav.ru/news/2009/11/10/cod11/
- ↑ https://2009.liaentries.com/winners/?id_medium=2&id_category=0&view=details&range=w&page=46&keyword=&medium=&category=&award=&country=&title_brand=&credits=&company_name=&city=&proceed_simple_search=false&proceed_advanced_search=false
- ↑ https://www.wikiwand.com/ja/%E5%B2%B8%E5%8B%87%E5%B8%8C
- ↑ https://peoplepill.com/people/yuki-kishi/
- ↑ https://ja.linkfang.org/wiki/%E5%B2%B8%E5%8B%87%E5%B8%8C
- ↑ https://xn--o9jo.xn--tckwe/wiki/%E5%B2%B8%E5%8B%87%E5%B8%8C
- ↑ http://search.kinpal.jp/word/35246/
- ↑ http://chibasultimateblog.blog43.fc2.com/blog-entry-519.html
- ↑ http://iyanayatusama.blog114.fc2.com/blog-date-200904.html
- ↑ http://lifehackjp.jugem.jp/?day=20080815
- ↑ http://marunao2.blog120.fc2.com/?m2=form&no=252
- ↑ http://marunao2.blog120.fc2.com/?m2=form&no=252
- ↑ https://markezine.jp/article/detail/4876
- ↑ http://pratik3d.blogspot.com/2009/04/turn-any-website-into-game.html
- ↑ https://ameblo.jp/megandmog22/entry-10196330593.html
- ↑ https://ameblo.jp/buzz-man/entry-10348414340.html
- ↑ https://pgr21.com/humor/62119
- ↑ http://orbyano.blog75.fc2.com/?mode=m&no=1748&photo=true
- ↑ http://www.zaeega.com/archives/50650419.html
- ↑ http://event.67.org/2009/yahoo-japan-x-67-2
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- ↑ https://gamefilia.com/amadeus-dark/2008/08/04/the-last-guy-prueba-la-demo-onlineniveles-infinitos-inside/
- ↑ https://logmi.jp/business/articles/9177
- ↑ https://nlab.itmedia.co.jp/games/articles/0808/01/news050.html
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- ↑ https://blog.goo.ne.jp/yakushin_0301/m/200901
- ↑ https://games.blog.nl/playstation-3/2008/08/01/speel-the-last-guy-op-elke-website-die-je-wilt
- ↑ https://games.blog.nl/playstation-3/2008/08/01/speel-the-last-guy-op-elke-website-die-je-wilt
- ↑ https://69sp.com/game/3433
- ↑ http://www.a-n-t.jp/blog/archives/2008/08/post_146.html
- ↑ http://jacky3316.blog90.fc2.com/category2-9.html
- ↑ https://agendatw.pixnet.net/blog/post/30160433
- ↑ https://www.campaignlive.com/article/campaign-promotion-celebrating-old-harnessing-new/1016460
- ↑ http://bashalog.c-brains.jp/08/10/01-174126.php
- ↑ http://simojo.com/interactive/2008/07/post-162.html
- ↑ https://www2.spikes.asia/winners/2009/digital/entry.cfm?entryid=2013&award=2
- ↑ http://chibasultimateblog.blog43.fc2.com/blog-entry-519.html
- ↑ https://mgronline.com/game/detail/9510000100045
- ↑ https://hk.appledaily.com/tech/20080825/45RIUAC2DYG36OFPASXWWZ7MNM/
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- ↑ https://internet.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/news/329881.html
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- ↑ https://www.brunchandbanana.com/2009/11/21/%E3%81%A9%E3%81%93%E3%81%A7%E3%82%82%E3%83%A9%E3%82%B9%E3%83%88%E3%82%AC%E3%82%A4/
- ↑ http://zoom.vs.land.to/?p=7216
- ↑ 87.0 87.1 https://www.imgsrc.co.jp/en/awards/
- ↑ https://www.oneclub.org/awards/theoneshow/-award/11145/the-last-guy-everywhere
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- ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20080805025041/http://lastguy.jp/
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