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Released Games => Knytt Stories => Topic started by: solneman on January 26, 2011, 12:49:03

Title: all time favourite levels - only-the-very-best-list
Post by: solneman on January 26, 2011, 12:49:03
As a Knytt Stories player for several years, I want to express my thanks for this greatest platform-explorer to Nifflas and to all those great levelmakers - I had many, many hours of playing fun - thank you so much! Since I can't pay anything, and since the other p(l)ayable games from Nifflas for me are not as good as KS (sorry about that), I want to do some service to the community instead: A list of levels - only the very best levels - wich stayed installed over the time and will stay as my all-time-favourites in my Knytt Stories copy. This could also be a good advice for novices, as this levels also show the qualities and possibilities of KS often better than some short or experimental levels - the problem is, you have to find the good ones, so here you are! Please excuse that I do not have the time to list direct download links, but if you go to the http://www.knyttlevels.com/ archive you should find the most with Ctrl+F. And surely I want you to add some of your absolute favourites, that I haven't discovered yet!!! So here is my list (as they appear in KS program list):


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The Outsider (Alamaster Moody)

Dark Sky of Wish Mountain (AlmightyZenTaco)

Gaia (Anyndel, Drakkan)

Sohe and the Rrokked (BaronCid & Old_Gil)

Ghostly Trials (Bennity)

Timecraft (Ble)

Lunatic (Blue2Scripter)

The Great Race (B-Man)

Kavez (Cheezy)

Night 2 (Cheezy)

Afar (Chironex)

Xeia (Chironex)

On the tree top (Comhon)

Pixeled (Comhon)

Travel east (Darktremor)

Fossil (dessgeega)

The Lighthouse (dessgeega)

The Oubliette (dessgeega)

Under the Crack (dessgeega)

Station 07 (Diesel)

A Walk in Sad (Drakkan)

Frozen Mountain (Drakkan)

Frozen Mountain 2 (Drakkan)

Walk in... part1 (Drakkan)

Training Grounds (Drakkan)

Wild Knytt (Drakkan)

A Knytt in Time (egomassive)

Shipwrecked (egomassive)

Autumn into Summer (El Gabe)

Underground house (Elder)

It Waits (Eric Colossal)

Ascension (Farik)

Harvest (Farik)

Temple of the sun (Fegon)

Yggdrasil (Fegon)

Core (Fredrik Andersson)

Chamber of Trails (Fredulom)

Rain (Ghormak)

Capitalism! (googoogjoob)

The Storm's Coming (Gorfinhofin)

The Valley (Green Cookie)

Temple of Death (Harumbai)

Grand Challenge (Introversity)

Climb for your life (ITA84)

Insurance (James Vaughan)

Scarlet Tears (James Vaughan)

Luminous City (Jeppo)

Climb (Jerbil)

Marine (Jerom)

Plotless (Joshua Green)

To Travel so Far (Kalm Traveller)

Rainfall (Kenogu Labz)

Monolith (Kent Mudle)

Riku Island (Kohdi)

The Explore Challenge (LPChip)

Tower of Babylon (Mateus Dalmedico Gessoni)

Swept away (Mitch Fletcher)

Infestation (Momruoy)

The lava caves (Mr Affu)

The lab of cliche (NESgamer)

A Strange Dream (Nifflas)

An Underwater Adventure (Nifflas)

Sky Flower (Nifflas)

The Machine (Nifflas)

This Level is Unfinished (Nifflas)

Weird 2 (Nik The B)

Realms of the Pharao (ozz)

Shoot For The Moon (Pesty)

Skyfalls (Pip)

A Walk at Night (Quincent Cartographer)

The Life Ruby (Ranger X )

Lone traveler (Razzorman)

Lost in the storm (Razzorman)

Above and below... the waterfall (RH)

Colors (rrc2soft)

Dark Sea (SecretGlitch)

Chasm (Sergio Cornaga)

My Super Secret Basement (Sergio Cornaga)

Remembrance (Si)

Revelation (Si)

Sahara (StaticRomantic)

Lost in the Labyrinth (Stebbins)

the-forever-rain (the drowning darkness)

The Other Side (The Red Snifit)

Blockland (TheoX)

Temple of azulan (Tom)

Xorons (Tom)

Don't eat Mushrooms (UncleSporky)

Panacea (vdweller)

The Little Gothic Doll (Velvet)

The Phantom Apparatus (VlachVania)

Starlight (Vonicles92)


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Have much fun!
Title: Re: all time favourite levels - only-the-very-best-list
Post by: Headgrinder on January 26, 2011, 12:58:46
I'm always grateful for these lists as I never have the time to sift through all the levels to find the good ones myself.  Thanks!
Title: Re: all time favourite levels - only-the-very-best-list
Post by: Grookie on January 26, 2011, 14:54:19
Agree with Headgrinder. Thank you for your selection!
Also, I am on the list  :nuts: :'D
Title: Re: all time favourite levels - only-the-very-best-list
Post by: GrayFace on January 27, 2011, 12:20:05
Yes, thanks for the list, it's pretty impressive. Here are other threads of favorite levels:
http://nifflas.lpchip.nl/index.php?topic=4134
http://nifflas.lpchip.nl/index.php?topic=427
http://nifflas.lpchip.nl/index.php?topic=1555
There may be even more :P2 It would be very good if they were combined into a single sticky thread.
Title: Re: all time favourite levels - only-the-very-best-list
Post by: Widget on January 28, 2011, 17:20:55
That's not a bad idea though it might be a bit overwhelming. It would help if people offered a comment on each recommendation; just a paragraph maybe, or even a sentence.
Title: Re: all time favourite levels - only-the-very-best-list
Post by: Red on January 28, 2011, 18:32:27
I guess this would be a good starting point for me if I ever decide to start playing knytt stories. :)
Title: Re: all time favourite levels - only-the-very-best-list
Post by: Widget on January 28, 2011, 23:12:13
If? I can't recommend enough that you do, and soon. Quite seriously, it's one of the most beautifully elegant pieces of game design I've ever seen, let alone played. Consider it a favour to yourself  ;)
Title: Re: all time favourite levels - only-the-very-best-list
Post by: lbrjohn3 on February 23, 2011, 21:39:23
I am going through all of these one by one. Was there only one Sohe and the Rrokked episode made?
Title: Re: all time favourite levels - only-the-very-best-list
Post by: Widget on February 23, 2011, 23:46:28
Yeah, it was unfortunately never finished.
Title: Re: all time favourite levels - only-the-very-best-list
Post by: egomassive on February 24, 2011, 06:08:42
I compared the list to Knyttlevels.com. Then, I went and found links to as many of the missing levels as I could:
Afar (Chironex) (http://niffpage.greywool.com/files/Games/ThirdPartyPack1_102.exe) It's part of the Third Party Pack.
Frozen Mountain 2 (Drakkan) (http://nifflas.lpchip.nl/index.php?topic=1735.0)
A Knytt in Time (egomassive) (http://egomassive.com/2009/12/knytt-in-time/)
Shipwrecked (egomassive) (http://egomassive.com/2010/10/shipwrecked/)
Ascension (Farik) (http://nifflas.lpchip.nl/index.php?topic=425.0)
Chamber of Trails (Fredulom) (http://niffpage.greywool.com/files/Games/ThirdPartyPack1_102.exe) It's part of the Third Party Pack.
Insurance (James Vaughan) (http://nifflas.lpchip.nl/index.php?topic=1075.0)
Luminous City (Jeppo) (http://www.mediafire.com/?vgo57sol7pp638s)
Jerom (Marine) (http://www.cowmuffins.net/stuff/marine.zip)
Plotless (Joshua Green) (http://niffpage.greywool.com/files/Games/ThirdPartyPack1_102.exe) It's part of the Third Party Pack.
An Underwater Adventure (Nifflas) (http://nifflas.ni2.se/?page=Knytt+Stories) It's in the A Strange Dream expansion.
This Level is Unfinished (Nifflas) (http://nifflas.ni2.se/?page=Knytt+Stories) It's in the A Strange Dream expansion.
Above and below... the waterfall (RH) (http://knyttstories.hoelzl.fr/)
My Super Secret Basement (Sergio Cornaga) (http://nifflas.lpchip.nl/index.php?topic=4071.0)
Blockland (TheoX) (http://niffpage.greywool.com/files/Games/ThirdPartyPack1_102.exe) It's part of the Third Party Pack.
The Little Gothic Doll (Velvet) (http://www.mediafire.com/?yozwgvzxzz1)

These are still missing. If someone could, we have taken up the practice of loading missing levels on the archive before they are lost. I would, but I don't have any of them:
Xeia (Chironex)
Grand Challenge (Introversity)
To Travel so Far (Kalm Traveller)
Tower of Babylon (Mateus Dalmedico Gessoni)
Swept away (Mitch Fletcher)
Shoot For The Moon (Pesty)
Skyfalls (Pip)
Lost in the Labyrinth (Stebbins)
Don't eat Mushrooms (UncleSporky) Is this Don't Eat the Mushroom? If so it's on Knyttlevels.com
Panacea (vdweller)
Title: Re: all time favourite levels - only-the-very-best-list
Post by: Widget on February 24, 2011, 12:59:25
Thankyou for all that work, ego  :D
Unfortunately, I don't have any of the ones that're still missing. We might just have to wait, for some of them, until Goog's able to pass on his collection.
Title: Re: all time favourite levels - only-the-very-best-list
Post by: jetio4 on February 24, 2011, 14:47:15
Unless the person who had them on the original list still has the levels. (I mean solenman, of course.)
Title: Re: all time favourite levels - only-the-very-best-list
Post by: solneman on February 27, 2011, 14:03:55
Thank you egomassive - you rock! Did upload the missing ones. What do you think, should I upload your entire list to knyttlevels.com?
Title: Re: all time favourite levels - only-the-very-best-list
Post by: egomassive on February 27, 2011, 16:33:37
Thanks for loading the missing ones. As for loading the others, I guess it really depends on weather they're in jeopardy of being lost. The thing is, once the new archive arrives, I think all the levels will need to be reposted. There's no sense in doing unnecessary work.

Let's see, Jerome (Marine) is just a link on Minmay's personal webspace (Thanks Minmay). It looks like Above and below... the waterfall (RH) is on a site that hasn't been updated since 2007 is very stable and has been recently updated. The rest seem to have stable links.
Title: Re: all time favourite levels - only-the-very-best-list
Post by: solneman on February 27, 2011, 18:24:14
Did load up these both, now all are safe - more or less. When will new archive start?
Title: Re: all time favourite levels - only-the-very-best-list
Post by: egomassive on February 28, 2011, 04:00:38
It's a secret to everybody
Title: Re: all time favourite levels - only-the-very-best-list
Post by: The Red Snifit on March 03, 2011, 23:26:32
The Other Side (The Red Shift)
Thanks for the support, solneman; I really appreciate it, but, uh, it would also be nice if you spelled my name right.

Regardless, I think I know which list I'll take a peek at once I feel the urge to play some more Knytt Stories.
Title: Re: all time favourite levels - only-the-very-best-list
Post by: Widget on March 04, 2011, 14:07:13
Another of my favourite levels is incorrectly transcribed up there aswell. Jerom is the author who created a level called Marine, rather than the other way around. He was also responsible for Knytt 8bits which looks absolutely stunning, although it's pitched well beyond my abilities.
Title: Re: all time favourite levels - only-the-very-best-list
Post by: solneman on March 11, 2011, 21:30:00
The Other Side (The Red Shift)
Thanks for the support, solneman; I really appreciate it, but, uh, it would also be nice if you spelled my name right.

Ooops, changed that, sorry!
Title: Re: all time favourite levels - only-the-very-best-list
Post by: solneman on March 11, 2011, 21:46:27
Another of my favourite levels is incorrectly transcribed up there aswell. Jerom is the author who created a level called Marine, rather than the other way around.

Sorry, but in KS program level list it's listed this way, whereas in www.knyttlevels.com it's listed correctly. So I changed it here, but Jerom has to modify his file to correct this in the KS program listing... but perhaps he has done with a later version than mine... I did not update all my level files over the time.
Title: Re: all time favourite levels - only-the-very-best-list
Post by: Widget on March 11, 2011, 22:05:14
Ah, I'm sorry. I've tweaked so many world.ini files in my collection I've lost track of which ones are original.
Title: Re: all time favourite levels - only-the-very-best-list
Post by: egomassive on March 20, 2011, 06:22:02
RH wasn't pleased with our uploading his level without asking first. J was good enough to remove the level from Knyttlevels for us. RH has a new website now and Above and Below the Waterfall is available there. I updated the link in my list above.

In the future we should try to contact authors before uploading their work to the archive.
Title: Re: all time favourite levels - only-the-very-best-list
Post by: Salmoneous on March 23, 2011, 18:22:02
Camping by Farik and LG-28 by Medic Ted are very beautiful environmental levels. I don't think anyone who like ks should miss out on them.
Title: Re: all time favourite levels - only-the-very-best-list
Post by: GrayFace on March 27, 2011, 22:34:01
RH wasn't pleased with our uploading his level without asking first. J was good enough to remove the level from Knyttlevels for us. RH has a new website now and Above and Below the Waterfall is available there. I updated the link in my list above.

In the future we should try to contact authors before uploading their work to the archive.
I don't think this is an option. Just imagine doing this when goog's archive is (hopefully) transferred :P2. If a level is available on author's website, then contacting him would be right, but in other cases it's too much. When the new archive is out, this shouldn't be a problem at all, because the link to the site can be added to the description.
Title: Re: all time favourite levels - only-the-very-best-list
Post by: GrayFace on March 28, 2011, 19:47:19
Marine with a fix: http://knyttlevels.com/levels/Jerom%20-%20Marine%20%28warp%20fixed%29.knytt.bin