{"id":23140,"date":"2023-11-20T16:39:41","date_gmt":"2023-11-20T07:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=23140"},"modified":"2023-11-21T11:37:24","modified_gmt":"2023-11-21T02:37:24","slug":"20231120-23140","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20231120-23140\/","title":{"rendered":"The Big Adventure of Owata\u2019s Life, the instant-death Flash game that inspired \u201cI Wanna be the Guy,\u201d is back as a free browser game\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Japanese developer King re-released three of their free-to-play browser games on November 19. The re-released titles include <strong>The Big Adventure of Owata\u2019s Life<\/strong>, The Big Adventure of Owata\u2019s Life 2 and Rokko Chan. The Big Adventure of Owata\u2019s Life is known as the game that inspired I Wanna Be the Guy, and can now be played once again via the developer\u2019s site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"768\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" src=\"http:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/20231119-272760-header.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23142\" srcset=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/20231119-272760-header.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/20231119-272760-header-600x384.jpg 600w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/20231119-272760-header-380x243.jpg 380w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/20231119-272760-header-768x492.jpg 768w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/20231119-272760-header-150x96.jpg 150w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/20231119-272760-header-300x192.jpg 300w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/20231119-272760-header-696x445.jpg 696w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/20231119-272760-header-1068x684.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/20231119-272760-header-656x420.jpg 656w\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Big Adventure of Owata\u2019s Life is a 2D action game in which you navigate through stages full of \u201cinstant-death\u201d gimmicks. The actions you can perform include jumping, the long-range attack \u201cOwata Buster,\u201d self-destruction, etc. By using these actions to your advantage, you aim to advance through the stages. The character you play as and the stages are all created using ASCII art style graphics.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The game has traps laid out all over, and aside from the visible spikes and enemies, there\u2019s also the traps that are invisible until activated. The protagonist, Jinsei Owata, dies instantly from any enemy attack or trap, so you basically need to \u201cdie\u201d your way through the stages, figuring out the stage layouts and enemy attack patterns by trial and error.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Aside from The Big Adventure of Owata\u2019s Life, King has also re-released Rokko Chan, a 2D action game based on the classic Mega Man series, and The Big Adventure of Owata\u2019s Life 2, which first launched in August 2020.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"764\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" src=\"http:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/20231119-272760-002.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23143\" srcset=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/20231119-272760-002.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/20231119-272760-002-600x382.jpg 600w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/20231119-272760-002-380x242.jpg 380w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/20231119-272760-002-768x489.jpg 768w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/20231119-272760-002-150x96.jpg 150w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/20231119-272760-002-300x191.jpg 300w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/20231119-272760-002-696x443.jpg 696w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/20231119-272760-002-1068x680.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/20231119-272760-002-660x420.jpg 660w\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The original Big Adventure of Owata\u2019s Life was released as a Flash game around 2007 and was quite popular as a super difficult browser game, even influencing other titles such as I Wanna be The Guy: The Movie: The Game. But with the end of 2020, support for flash was discontinued, which meant the game could no longer be played officially.&nbsp;Now, the developer has made the game available once again using the open-source Flash emulator Ruffle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"ja\" dir=\"ltr\">Ruffle\u3092\u4f7f\u3063\u3066Flash\u3092\u30d6\u30e9\u30a6\u30b6\u4e0a\u3067\u52d5\u304b\u305b\u308b\u3068\u805e\u3044\u305f\u306e\u3067\u3001\u904e\u53bb\u306eFlash\u30b2\u30fc\u30e0\u3092\u518d\u3073\u904a\u3079\u308b\u3088\u3046\u306b\u3057\u307e\u3057\u305f\u3002\u30aa\u30ef\u30bf\u306e\u5927\u5192\u967a\u306f\u3069\u3061\u3089\u3082\u4eca\u518d\u3073\u51fa\u3057\u3066\u3082\u826f\u3044\u3082\u306e\u306a\u306e\u304b\u3068\u60a9\u3093\u3060\u306e\u3067\u3059\u304c\u3001\u3069\u306e\u307f\u3061\u4e00\u5ea6\u4e16\u306b\u51fa\u3057\u3066\u3057\u307e\u3063\u305f\u7269\u306a\u306e\u3067\u3001\u3053\u306e\u307e\u307e\u7f6e\u3044\u3066\u304a\u304f\u4e8b\u306b\u3057\u307e\u3057\u305f\u3002<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/D14fFNAQ9H\">https:\/\/t.co\/D14fFNAQ9H<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Eig7lRoHSU\">pic.twitter.com\/Eig7lRoHSU<\/a><\/p>&mdash; \u30ad\u30f3\u30b0 (@king_75) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/king_75\/status\/1726118216446169395?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 19, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The creator of The Big Adventure of Owata\u2019s Life is Japanese developer King. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/king_75\/status\/1337032238437842948\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">King&#8217;s X\/Twitter account<\/a>, at the time he created the game, he was just a college student aspiring to work with Flash, and created the game while studying the program. Apparently, the game suddenly rose to popularity after it was posted on a Flash game compilation site. Inspired by the great response, King decided to make a sequel, and various derivative games appeared too. At the moment, King works as a freelancer in the game industry.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Big Adventure of Owata\u2019s Life, The Big Adventure of Owata\u2019s Life 2 and Rokko Chan are currently available via <a href=\"https:\/\/king-soukutu.com\/about.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">King\u2019s official website<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:12px\"><br><br><br><br><em>Written by. Amber V based on the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/articles\/newsjp\/20231119-272760\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">original Japanese article<\/a>&nbsp;(original article\u2019s publication date: 2023-11-18 14:41 JST)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese developer King re-released their free-to-play browser game The Big Adventure of Owata\u2019s Life along with the game&#8217;s sequel and the action game Rokko Chan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":23144,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[39,17],"class_list":["post-23140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-indie-games","tag-japan-related-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Big Adventure of Owata\u2019s Life, the instant-death Flash game that inspired \u201cI Wanna be the Guy,\u201d is back as a free browser game\u00a0 - 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