Not to be confused with the company.
Jiggmin.com was Jacob Grahn's second and most well-known website he used from 2006 until 2015.
It was succeeded by Freegoose in September 2015.
History[]
Originally Jiggmin used jacobgrahn.com as his primary website to host his web design portfolio. After he began developing games, focus gradually shifted until he chose to set up a dedicated site for them at "mrjiggmin.com" in April 2006.[1] Unlike jacobgrahn.com, it featured a more traditional design and wasn't made in Flash.
He purchased a dedicated server at the end of the year to support his more ambitious projects and also shortened the URL to "jiggmin.com".[2]
A complete overhaul was released in mid-2007 that gave the site a green color scheme, adding various features like Bubbles!, the ability to rate/comment on games and a forum.[3]
Games by other developers were added in 2009, something Jiggmin had considered since 2006.[4][5][6] This coincided with another redesign that gave the site a simpler white look.
Adjustments over time include changing the logo, improved organization of games and removing comments.[7][8] Games by other developers were also quietly removed in early 2010.[7]
In December 2010 Jiggmin announced plans to rebrand the site as "pintogames.com".[9] He explained the sudden change was because of his desire to shift focus on his branding away from himself and more to his games, something he originally intended his alias to do. This was promptly abandoned following negative reactions from the community.
A more simplistic look launched in January 2011 that integrated the forum's software vBulletin into the rest of the site, along with removing several long-time features like game ratings and descriptions.[10]
In return registered members could add YouTube videos to a "media" section. Videos featuring one of his games were shown on their game page below them. Discussions from a game's forum section were placed beside them as well as a substitute for comments.[11] Both were dropped in 2013 however in favor of restoring descriptions.[12] A "Dev Log" page was also added where visitors could more easily find updates on his projects.
Around 2013, the site and PR2 began experiencing recurring DDoS attacks.[13][14] Although he only publicly commented on these twice at the time, it was later revealed to be the key reason he eventually closed the site and stop developing games.[15]
Jiggmin talked about a potential redesign in 2014 using different software called Meteor, citing difficulties with vBulletin.[16] In his final post in March 2015, he privately confirmed he was working on the project.[17]
The site later went offline suddenly in July 2015. While Jiggmin set up Freegoose a month later with a post explaining the closure, fans were skeptical since he hadn't mentioned the site elsewhere.[18] After roughly a year of uncertainty, Freegoose was confirmed as legitimate in June 2016.[19]
He ultimately decided to close jiggmin.com primarily due to issues stemming from vBulletin, which made it a "maintenance nightmare".[18] The site's custom code was intermixed with vBulletin's code, "which turned simple security patches into a gauntlet of copy and paste soup". The ongoing DDoS attacks and other issues caused frequent database crashes, each resulting in him receiving hundreds of emails per hour. He also cited the 2012 Virus, 2009 Forum Pruning and several instances where Google temporarily banned his AdSense account.
Despite shutting down the site, he still pays for the URL. While it briefly redirected to an unrelated site in 2017, it currently leads to grahn.io.[20]
Forum[]
Main article: Jiggmin's Village
A forum named Jiggmin's Village was added after the site's first redesign in 2007. Here fans could read about his current projects and discuss his games or unrelated topics with each other.
While initially designed by Jiggmin from scratch, it later ran off various versions of vBulletin.
Dev Log[]
Main article: Dev Log
The dev log was a page that showcased the 10 latest updates to Jiggmin's projects.
The top area had different content depending on what he was working on, such as his Motley Monday videos or early game betas.
Subdomains[]
Jiggmin set up several subdomains in 2012 to house files for his games instead of having them all on his main site. These remained active after the shutdown since they use different servers, though 2 have since been discontinued.
cdn.jiggmin.com[]
Hosts preloaders and game files for Platform Racing 2, Creation, War of the Web and the Jiggmin's Village chat. No homepage was ever set up for it unlike the others.
gamehub.jiggmin.com[]
Stored avatars from Creation, WotW and JV's chat. The homepage featured a video titled: "Uprising - Muse make fun of an Italian tv show in this "live" performance - hilarious!".[21]
Discontinued in January 2018.
lookup.jiggmin.com[]
Hosts text files that are grabbed from a game's preloader that contain links to their actual SWFs. Homepage has a link to a now deleted K-Pop music video called: "슈퍼키드 (SuperKidd) - '기분 좋아 (feat. 정희주)' MV".
luna.jiggmin.com[]
The home of Luna and files related to it.
Shutdown alongside gamehub's server in January 2018.
Logos[]
Website[]
In-Game[]
References[]
- ↑ "Apr 13". Jiggmin. April 13, 2006.
- ↑ "Happy new years!". Jiggmin. January 1, 2007.
- ↑ "Jiggmin.com" (May 2007 archive)
- ↑ "Upgrades are coming.". Jiggmin. October 18, 2006.
- ↑ "Feb 14 - goin and goin". Jiggmin. February 14, 2009.
- ↑ "Jiggmin.com" (February 2009 archive)
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 "Jiggmin.com" (March 2010 archive)
- ↑ "Jiggmin.com - Platform Racing 2" (January 2010 archive)
- ↑ "pintogames.com". Jiggmin. December 17, 2010.
- ↑ "JV version 3". Jiggmin. January 20, 2011.
- ↑ "Jiggmin.com - Platform Racing 2" (July 2011 archive)
- ↑ "Jiggmin.com - Platform Racing 2" (January 2013 archive)
- ↑ "DDoS". Jiggmin. August 22, 2013.
- ↑ "Turn that frown upside down". Jiggmin. August 26, 2013.
- ↑ "Jacob Grahn aka Jiggmin". Freegoose. May 17, 2016.
- ↑ "Jiggmin has a new forum". Acid Forums. October 12, 2015.
- ↑ "Mod Hut" Jiggmin's Village. March 7, 2015.
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 "Platform Racing 4 and the Future!". Freegoose. September 9, 2015.
- ↑ "Jacob Grahn aka Jiggmin". Freegoose. June 18, 2016.
- ↑ "Jiggmin.com" (March 2017 archive)
- ↑ "gamehub.jiggmin.com" (June 2012 archive)
