Tijit

Jess Trabilsie, also known as tijit (stylized in all lowercase letters), is a fangame creator and player. They are known primarily for being the creator of I wanna be the Fangame! and I wanna be the Engine trial, as well as clearing the original I wanna be the Guy on the Impossible difficulty. Recently, they have made such projects as Spell Kid and tijit engine 2.
== Background ==
tijit was attending university during the time of the original I Wanna Be The Guy releasing, and immediately found an attraction to it after it released. They played through the game repeatedly, eventually being able to clear it in a single sitting, and then further with only one life in Impossible mode. Eventually, they decided to make their own fan work based off of IWBTG, similar to some other people on the Kayin Forums at the time. This work would become Fangame!, and would further lead to the creation of the first fangame engine to be commonly used, cementing Gamemaker as the popular tool for creating fangames instead of MMF2. Because of this popularity, however, tijit would eventually grow a distain for IWBTG fangames and would remove their engine and claim that any games containing code from it should be removed from the website under the logic that distributing games made using it is technically distributing the engine itself. This notion would however be overruled by Kayin, causing tijit to leave fangame spaces with a sour feeling. Several years later in the early 2020s, however, contact was made with tijit again from Fangame! being run at a GDQ by Wolsk. Since this event, they have gained a positive outlook on IWBTG fangames again and have begun to actively create and play fangames into the present.
== Impact ==
tijit could be seen to some as the "mother of all fangames." Without their contributions to fangames, there likely would not be a fangame community as it stands today, despite any past grievances they may have had regarding the subject. Furthermore, their activity in fangame oriented spaces tend to be of a positive outlook to celebrate accomplishments done by themselves and others. In addition to this, they have returned to creating tools which can be used by the general fangame audience, as is evidenced with tijit engine 2.
== Personal Life ==
tijit attended The University of Adelaide in Adelaide, South Australia. While there, they found an interest in computer games and computer software and joined the Adelaide University Game Development Club. After college, they would cease contact with most IWBTG oriented spaces to focus on personal life. They are a large fan of the game Final Fantasy XIV, and have many posts about the game on social media, typically relating to the character they play as named "Mallcop Jamiroquai".
== List of published Fangames ==
* I wanna be the Fangame! (2008)
* I wanna be the Engine trial (2009)
* I wanna Time Travel! (2011)
* I wanna be the Fangame! Easter Edition (2011)
* I wanna be the Fangame hell zone (2011) as "tijit in the SUPERZONES"
* Draw My Fangame (2019), credited for using assets from Fangame!
* I Wanna Destroy the Station! (2021)
* I wanna be the Fangame! Expert Remix (2021)
* YOU ARE NOT THE GUY (Breaking Bad Remix) (2021)
* I Wanna Dodge The DVD Screensaver For Seven Hours (2021)
* Spell Kid (2022)
* tijit engine 2 (GMS2) (2022)
== Trivia ==
* tijit is one of the few makers of a game featured in the Kamilia series to not be asked for permission for use in the games, mainly due to the lack of contact with fangames during the creation of the projects
* The first fangame they cleared after returning back into playing fangames was Not Another Needle Contest 2 on March 17th, 2022.
* tijit has made several games not based on IWBTG, including tijital-marble (2009), Mega Lava Fighter (2010), stickbug (2020), TIME TUBE (2022), Miracle Magnets (2022), and TAIJOU VS DEMONS IN SPACE (2022)
* tijit has previously speedran La-Mulana and Iconoclasts
* tijit will sometimes refer to themselves as "tijit from fangames" as a joke
== Gallery ==
File:Tijit.png|The current avatar used by tijit in most places.
File:Tijit2.jpg|An alternate avatar used by tijit.
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