I Wanna Be The Anarchistificationator Update 6-19-2015 "Build 6"

[TheGamerGuy500]

Not too long after the canning of I Wanna Be Gaming, I realized that I could make something good if I start from scratch.

Enter I Wanna Be The Anarchistificationator. A typical 100 Floor game with inspiration from Wings of Vi, Not Another Needle Game, and many others. You'll find references to these games.
Each group of 10 floors will have their own theme and song.
I'll figure out what else to write here as I progress in development.
I will attempt to fix anything bad that the community points out, but please don't expect perfection .
Oh yeah about the emergency broadcast thing in the intro, you can skip the whole thing by disabling the music (CTRL-M) twice, or wait until the second message after the EOM (3 shorter beeps) sounds, then press shift.
Without further ado, here's some screenshots.

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Screenies are still from build 5, have yet to reliably get screenshots right now.










(Level names might be subject to change) ^

I'll be looking forward to feedback on what's good and what's bad. Constructive criticism is appreciated.
Try it out by clicking here.
CHANGELOG! (This stuff is a good read)

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Build 6 - YoSniper Tech Demo:

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Updated the bosses to each have their own unique ability, but still mainly just shoot at you but with that ability also like flaming rocketspikes.
Updated the title screen to include some options and even passwords that will ONLY TAKE EFFECT IF YOU DON'T LOAD A FILE, they take effect upon selecting a difficulty.
Added a shit ton of new debug characters, and changed character 16 to sonic.
Made the character and weapon switcher tell you what exactly it is.
Took a whole 2 months to actually send out.
Shameless self-promotion on the title screen ("website" option under "play" and "options" option options optionoption).
Decorated the shit out of the level select.
Mentioned the YoSniper contest on the title screen and readme.
Removed the title screen background since backgrounds reset position upon switching rooms and the title, options, debug selection menu, save select, and difficulty select, are all different rooms.
Added an abnormally hard to code fatality sequence in compliance to the Fangame Contest rules.
Changed the title font since this windows virtual machine doesn't like Krungthep.
Crashing issue #~\might/~# be fixed since I compiled this on an actual windows operating system (though it's emulated).
Game size reduced due to music changes.
Added floating keep area (thanks solgryn for concept, based on BETA Wings of Vi).
Changed said area's background to simple clouds, as well as the sky area's background since some computers with shart graphics cards couldn't handle the previous cloudy goodness of the sky area.
Changed the StinkyCheeseOne890 boss to have actual attacks totally not from Pr'Gora.
In addition, his beam attack can be a bit broken depending on what his previous attack was.
Also he can repeat the same attack over and over.
Changed almost every music piece to not be from Wings of Vi pitched down musics.
Changed the good ending theme to the FNAF 3 ending theme for feels and changed it back to Mother 3 memory of life for more feels.
Made the test room useful.
If you missed any characters and got to the bad end screen, go to the test room and pick up the top right 2 items for god mode and super gamer. Don't press R, but you won't need to since you have access to L for level select by this point.
Fixed like 4 areas where you could screw your save file one way or another by bad save locations (usually when a potion is needed but impossible to get from a certain point that can be saved at with weapon 2 or 1).
Make weapon 2 way more overpowered to give more use for the weapons system.
Added a demon enemy from beta wings of vi, that has yoyo physics like sanic, and the blue bar to kill it since the top of room 58 is cancer to do with the demon following you.
Updated the fire sprite and the underwater fire room to compensate.
Made some of the secrets more obvious (cough) floor 54 (cough).
Gave Frick his own dialogue cutscene.
Improved tiles for the hell cave.
Removed the visible roof and adjusted the background on floor 100.
Added a safe block before the fight with supreme frick.
Added a block at the very entrance at floor 102 right before supreme frick where a frame perfect double jump could clip you through a tile and kill you by falling offscreen.
Updated supreme frick's pattern to be simple since he can now randomly pick from each boss' ability every 2 seconds.
Also removed some spawning RNG spikeblocks for supreme frick's arena.
Took like 3 hours to code the fatality after the supreme frick fight, and it only shows character 0 since not many of the other characters have respective sprites for that kind of scene.
Updated ending sequence to not show vi, rubi, ira, or any other character that has feet that partially clip through the floor when inside the house at the end.
Updated the emergency broadcast sequences to have a more believable font and voice clips, as well as a secret if you decode the EAS tones...
Added a switch and blocks to accompany it.
Changed default platforms to match the new one way blocks that are still partially broken.
^Those are really the only broken things in the game.
God mode aura and EZ bow now follow you without slight lag.
Rush Jet now actually does that too, and can even clip you through walls now.
Credits sequence is more decorated and has a new prolly-not-copyrighted song with it.
Forgot to add the YoSniper fangame contest judges to the credits.
Changed the ending screens to look more peaceful instead of a white void.
Lots of other small changes.

Build 5:

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Added bosses, though most of them are mere concepts.
Fixed up screen 10 to introduce fire and vines even though the tricky treasure 5 floors before used them. Welp.
Added 10 new characters. 2 of them are debug-only.
Got a new epic background for the last area.
Made title cards for all the bosses, beginnings of areas, and the last sequence.
Added a sort of storyline including an emergency alert system broadcast to the beginning and end of the game.
Fixed level select to include bosses.
Changed final boss to Frick, a combination of Jeh'Oul (Wings of Vi) and Biff (I Wanna Get Cultured).
Made escape sequence.
Bosses make explosions when hit by bullets.
Bosses turn into when player dies by them.
Adjusted explosion volume.
Fixed ending sequence to support the other characters.
Fixed debug mode to be sprites of other characters when they are selected beforehand.
Debug mode now fires bullets around itself when Z is pressed (in free-fly).
Remembered to add some guys to the credits.
Added sky world.
Changed water to match the waves.
Changed weapon-switching button to hold the shoot button to summon it.
Fixed walking animations.
Added a screamer.
Added secrets that allow for unlocking every character up to 9.
Other things.

Build 4:

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Updated the character and weapon switcher to be more efficient and allow for more options.
Changed platforms on screen 6 to be more manageable.
Fixed hovering glitch that would prevent you from hovering again after getting a mid-air hover potion and having to wait until you stopped hovering.
Added level select and ending sequence.
Added toggle for debug info (CTRL + D)
Added world designed around hovering and inspired by a certain game.
Added final boss rooms with placeholder bosses from Gaming. Try them at your own risk.
Forgot to add EpicBag0Chips to the credits. Wait for next release.
Removed RTF readme because updating both will be a pain.
Fixed a bug that lets you keep speed-10 potion in tricky treasure 3.
Did not touch the forest area at all other than that. (where's the feedback guys ?)
Tricky Treasures will no longer play music if CTRL-M is enabled.
Added MegaMan/WingsOfVi water.
Added 3 new weapons and updated weapon 4 to be more awesome.
Had to nerf weapon 7 for being overpowered.
Changed credits music.
Fixed Shantae's aligning for better sight of her hitbox (which is the same as every other character but harder to see).
Fixed buttons showing in window caption and possibly even the temp file glitch (doesn't delete upon exit resulting in the game starting you at where you last saved without even showing the title screen upon startup.)
Using synchronization to avoid tearing. Tell me if it causes shart-garbo.
Added buttons and hitboxes to click for more information on some items.
Added a click-my-logo-to-go-to-my-site.

Build 3:

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Hopefully made the hover potion segment easier for newcomers.
Added cool effect for when you hover. It also appears when you're on the ground. Fix later.
COMPLETELY REDONE THE HOVER MECHANIC. You now stop completely (vertically) in mid-air rather than going down very slowly while hovering.
Fixed Newcomer-Bow positions on custom characters. (CTRL + 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 to switch to one)
Fixed nerfed-spike being visible over blocks.
Fixed debug information being overlapped by anything that wants to overlap it.
Added cool effect for speed potions and to one other instance.
Added backgrounds to the 3 existing tricky treasure secrets.
Added forest stage with speed potions as its main gimmick.
Had to nerf one part freakin' 6 different times because it was cancer.
Forgot to make area 5's rain overlap the player. (Minor spoiler to what it is. Seriously you can see all the themes for stages if you CTRL-K at the End-of-this-prototype screens.)
Fixed Boshy and Jenny with their walking animations. They were one pixel off. That matters breh.
Nerfed screen 13 and the underwater gate room to have less cancer if there can't be none.
Fixed screen 9's obstacles.
Fixed having to painstakingly go back to trigger the moving warp on screen 19.
Fixed some bullet-blocker-less screen 20.
Added some guys to the credits. (Thanks!)

Build 2:

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Found GM8.1 license key that works so now the accursed GameMaker Lite Logo can be banished for good.
Nerfed second screen's lack of spikes to smooth the transition into screen 3.
Nerfed like every single jump on screen 3.
Changed some signs.
Added music and themes for every stage. (CTRL + K when you reach the good-job-prototype-complete room to cycle forwards in these, CTRL + J to cycle backwards and even go to past levels. View readme for more info.)
Added water stage, and ran out of ideas halfway through.
Updated debug info's engrish. ("I Wanna Be The Anarchistificator"?)
Added custom characters that can be accessed if you read the readme (press F1 in-game).
Removed the boss because bosses are 2hard2code.
Added credits sequence and missed like 3 testers.
Updated weapon switching mechanic because the numberpad was a cancer method.
Scrubbed out most references to Gaming.
Hopefully fixed the in-game readme.
Other stuff.

Also a dev blog video showcasing what I've been working on recently.

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For Build 5:

[lawatson]

Will give it a try! I'll update the post regarding my thoughts on it.

FIRST THINGS I NOTICE: Pushing aside the Lite Logo (ech), the game is promising! I like the tutorial, assets, and music choices! Gimmicks like the potions sound nice, as well. I'll check in later for my thoughts on the platforming.

GOOD THINGS TO HIGHLIGHT: Save blockers! I'm glad you put some thought into blocking the saves. I like the tiles and backgrounds, too.

TECHNICAL PROBLEMS: The screen is resizable, and that kinda bugs me. There's a check box in the Global Game Settings area which you can uncheck to prevent this.

PLATFORMING: Whoa jesus christ! First three floors and it transitions from block platforming to some more difficult spike jumps. Really big spike in difficulty there. This isn't all that light hearted towards beginners, I'll say that much. The potions are fine as a gimmick, but the platforming related to them is kind of hard to execute.

BAD THINGS TO HIGHLIGHT: First off, you die from "walking" into a spike even if a block is in the way.

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Another thing, the water is opaque as fuk. Reduce some of its alpha.

I don't feel like updating the post right now, but try to reflect on some of the stuff I talked about earlier.

[TheGamerGuy500]

Yeah, I noticed the difficulty spike and modified the second floor to flow more smoothly into the 3rd one which teaches you spike jumps.
I made the screen resizable because of the crash issue where sometimes it crashes upon death (no clue why it happens) and if you have the window maximized you can hit the close button if task manager isn't available (IE school computer).
Also the hard platforming related to the potions I could nerf, I'm not that great of a guygame player so I thought if I playtest it and can get through it, it shouldn't be THAT hard for many others...
I might be underestimating myself.
Thank you for the review, it's constructive criticism that makes this game better

EDIT: Also if you could find a way to remove the lite logo without having a freakin winning lottery ticket laying around, I'd love to know 
EDITS EDIT: Found a license key floating around on the internet. Go team.

[Kyir]

You really need a better name for it.

[TheGamerGuy500]

You really need a better name for it.

It may seem like a long name but it's actually only a choice of how every other name I thought of (and there were a lot) were already used by other fangames. I eventually settled with this one. Now that I think about it I would rather have chose something else before starting  .

[Kyir]

It's not about being long, it's about making you look like you're 12. Unless that's what you're aiming for. Never too late to change it though. Except after release. Then it's too late to change it.

[kilgour22]

Man... it really feels like a bad NANG/Rekt spinoff. And what on earth is with screen 13? RNG with the spike block directions? Beyond shitty to grind. You can't figure out a good way to do that screen, you basically just keep resetting hoping for good RNG. It's like a shitty avoidance fight, except with platforming.

A lighter introduction to the float gimmick would be much better. Right now, it's a hard intro into it. Your production value is very good and the effort you put in definitely shows there. Your difficulty starts off ridiculously easy then spikes suddenly. The nerfing of the jumps takes away from the visual appeal of the screens; dropping a spike down a little makes jumps look... what's the word I'm looking for... unclean. The fact that you start in the same spot on each screen with the same general layout really irritates me because I don't feel excited to complete a screen; it feels like I just redo a different variant of the screen.

I like the music. I like the sound effects. I like the spriting. The foundation is all there to make a good game. And it's not awful, it just feels like a bad spinoff of two well-known games that was executed decently. Spike jumps need to be more creative instead of just repeated nerfed/unnerfed angles and gates.

Sorry to sound harsh.

[TheGamerGuy500]

Man... it really feels like a bad NANG/Rekt spinoff. And what on earth is with screen 13? RNG with the spike block directions? Beyond shitty to grind. You can't figure out a good way to do that screen, you basically just keep resetting hoping for good RNG. It's like a shitty avoidance fight, except with platforming.

A lighter introduction to the float gimmick would be much better. Right now, it's a hard intro into it. Your production value is very good and the effort you put in definitely shows there. Your difficulty starts off ridiculously easy then spikes suddenly. The nerfing of the jumps takes away from the visual appeal of the screens; dropping a spike down a little makes jumps look... what's the word I'm looking for... unclean. The fact that you start in the same spot on each screen with the same general layout really irritates me because I don't feel excited to complete a screen; it feels like I just redo a different variant of the screen.

I like the music. I like the sound effects. I like the spriting. The foundation is all there to make a good game. And it's not awful, it just feels like a bad spinoff of two well-known games that was executed decently. Spike jumps need to be more creative instead of just repeated nerfed/unnerfed angles and gates.

Sorry to sound harsh.

I appreciate the feedback.
I was trying to make sure there was a specific theme to each floor. That's kind of hard to do when you don't have many gimmicks to introduce or are saving them for later worlds.
The whole reason the nerfed jumps exist is from playtesting, people were reporting some AIDS jumps and I have to make them easier without making some overused jumps like gates or whatnot. I'm running out of non-gimmick jump ideas .
The whole start-on bottom left is so that the game doesn't end up like Sealed Power where screen transitions have you questioning where you spawned at.
They told me I'm better at making features rather than level design.

[TheGamerGuy500]

It's not about being long, it's about making you look like you're 12. Unless that's what you're aiming for. Never too late to change it though. Except after release. Then it's too late to change it.

I tend to like sticking to a name to the very end.
Besides there's similar games out there such as the newgrounds flash game "Anarchistificationer" which is inspiration for this name.
I've got a lot of feedback on the name like "that's one hell of a name" and "never thought of that name before".
I guess I could change it if it's in THAT much need of changing, I'll need ideas though.

[petsson12]

You really need a better name for it.

"I wanna conceptualize the Omnitruncated Tesseract"

[Stepcore]

The game looks quite good and the sound/music is nice.
Clicking things for info is a nice touch.
The little text message for each room is cool.

I played through the prototype, here's my Criticism/Feedback:

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RNG or random looking platforming is never good. The screens with platforms and spike balls going all over the place need to be cleaned up.

You might be too quick both introducing new things and making them obsolete. I feel like you need to ease in each gimmick. Already on screen 7 you have both hovering, multiple hovers and trampolines introduced in 1 screen. But then they are never used again shortly after that.

Difficulty is in general quite inconsistent and there are too many diagonals. Screen 7 for example: Save 1 and 2 are hard, but save 3 and 4 are free. Also Screen 20 is easier than screen 3.

Room 14: I dislike rooms with just 1 type of jump repeated in different ways. Also, right->left->right level design is kinda bland.

Room 19: If you take the 2nd save, the warp should trigger without you having to go near it IMO.

Room 20: Some collisions don't block your bullets, so you can shoot the hype save from the 4th save.

Small things:

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• You can click stuff for info, but the spikes only react if you click on the outline. If you click inside them, nothing happens.
• If you jump while floating is active, you just do a jump cancel. I feel like it should cancel out the floating and do a djump.
• The underwater fire kinda loses it's punch by not being introduced outside of water first. Also, it's quite hard to tell how big the fire's hitbox really is.
• When you close the game and open it back up, it starts you where you last saved instead of on the title screen.
• Room 7: https://gyazo.com/6ebf094d07c58a5e6a38eb5cd0a7256b Background looks kinda messed up there.

[TheGamerGuy500]

The game looks quite good and the sound/music is nice.
Clicking things for info is a nice touch.
The little text message for each room is cool.

I played through the prototype, here's my Criticism/Feedback:

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RNG or random looking platforming is never good. The screens with platforms and spike balls going all over the place need to be cleaned up.

You might be too quick both introducing new things and making them obsolete. I feel like you need to ease in each gimmick. Already on screen 7 you have both hovering, multiple hovers and trampolines introduced in 1 screen. But then they are never used again shortly after that.

Difficulty is in general quite inconsistent and there are too many diagonals. Screen 7 for example: Save 1 and 2 are hard, but save 3 and 4 are free. Also Screen 20 is easier than screen 3.

Room 14: I dislike rooms with just 1 type of jump repeated in different ways. Also, right->left->right level design is kinda bland.

Room 19: If you take the 2nd save, the warp should trigger without you having to go near it IMO.

Room 20: Some collisions don't block your bullets, so you can shoot the hype save from the 4th save.

Small things:

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• You can click stuff for info, but the spikes only react if you click on the outline. If you click inside them, nothing happens.
• If you jump while floating is active, you just do a jump cancel. I feel like it should cancel out the floating and do a djump.
• The underwater fire kinda loses it's punch by not being introduced outside of water first. Also, it's quite hard to tell how big the fire's hitbox really is.
• When you close the game and open it back up, it starts you where you last saved instead of on the title screen.
• Room 7: https://gyazo.com/6ebf094d07c58a5e6a38eb5cd0a7256b Background looks kinda messed up there.

Thanks for the feedback, I usually know why certain things are in certain ways, so I have a bit of explaining to do...
Here's what went on during development.
The platform room has a set pattern on each platform. There's one that will guarantee getting to the portal if the player is good enough. I realized my mistake with the spiked block room and nerfed it significantly.
I have went and nerfed many of the diagonals and hid the spikes so if they're under the block the under-block part is hidden. That shouldn't cause any un-seen-spike-deaths because I have most of the spikes just pushed in and not out in another direction.
Almost all of the rooms are shaped like an S, I realized. That's just how I make my screens. If I made them any other way it'd have lots of open space, not enough space, too many spikes, or lots of other design flaws IMO, I've went through different layouts and eventually had to settle on one general layout while trying to make every room look different or have different gimmicks or mechanics.
I will use the gimmicks in later worlds.
Room 14 is essentially to practice gate jumps for further ahead.
Room 19 will now have a trigger at the save to trigger the portal to change location and the sign text.
Room 20 has lots of my new row-of-blocks object which has the block parent so it should block bullets but GM was being cancer and not making it do that, I'll put bullet blockers in walls that have those (where it is necessary) think of that hype save as a freebie perhaps.
Spikes actually don't have a hitbox underneath what is rendered, I'll put an alpha-4 white unseeable fill in it so you can click it anywhere.
Float potion has some glitches, I know, I'm testing to see if pressing shift can make you regain maximum vspeed.
I've slowed down the fire's animation to give the player time to actually see the fire's hitbox. When it shoots the tiny flame out the top is when its hitbox extends. I introduced it in the tutorial if that counts.
Closing and opening the game bug is part of the engine, it creates a temp file that starts you at the coords you saved at, and the game is assigned to delete it upon closing, but it fails to actually do so.
Room 10: That's a simple background bug that's fixed due to the BG changes I have made already.

[Zero-G]

You really need a better name for it.

"I wanna conceptualize the Omnitruncated Tesseract"

he just jelly cause he didnt come up with that name

[TheGamerGuy500]

You really need a better name for it.

"I wanna conceptualize the Omnitruncated Tesseract"

he just jelly cause he didnt come up with that name

Actually I never even took that name into account, joke's on you 

[Kyir]

You really need a better name for it.

"I wanna conceptualize the Omnitruncated Tesseract"

Hey, I've got a theme. It's not just some word with six suffixes stuck on the end of it.