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For those of you not familiar with the knytt stories randomizer, it's basically a tool that allows to to take any Knytt Stories level and mix it up a little. You can randomly replace all the enemies with different enemies, randomly add enemies, rearrange decoration, etc. It provides a way to spice up your favorite (or least favorite) levels.

So what's this room, then?
The Randomizer Room is a Knytt Stories unlike any other, in that it is specifically designed for randomizing. It contains 50 rooms which the randomizer populates with enemies and the golden creatures from KS+. Juni must then cycles through the rooms, carefully collecting any golden creatures she can find amidst the chaos. The idea first came about when DonDoli randomized golden creatures into A Strange Dream, and realized that one of the secret rooms had a similar mechanic. StraightFlame set out to make the idea a reality, which I then added onto, and you can see some of the results below:

Looks awesome! Where can I get this?
You can get the randomizer here, and the most up to date version of the randomizer room should be attached to this post. The most reliable settings for the randomizer are currently True Random and
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What can I do to help?
We're trying to pack the randomizer room full of 256 different screens. If you think you can design a fun challenge room, go for it! If you just want to playtest the existing room and give feedback on what feels jank/unfair, that's great as well. If you're not a mapper or a player, why not shout out some suggestions for the powerups room? Currently we've only got locks for golden creatures, so if coins and artifacts get in there, how would that change it? And of course if you have any other suggestions/ideas, don't be afraid to contribute. With enough people we can build something awesome.

As some of you may know, I spent several months working on and off on a TAS early this year. During the course of this process I learned quite a lot about the Knytt Stories movement engine. A lot of it isn't obvious from (or isn't even in) the Nifflas's source code, so it took quite a lot of experimentation. I figured that all my discoveries were worth publishing for anyone else who might want to know the inner peculiarities of the game, like why Juni's jumps have small inconsistencies to them. I have been working on compiling all of that knowledge into a document, so that anyone who wishes may know exactly why KS behaves the way it does. I now present...


Although it is specifically written for TASers, this guide contains a lot of information about glitches and quirks of the game engine that could be of interest to everyone. I realize that it is a fairly dense read, but the goal of this paper is to inform. If there's a section that you read but didn't fully understand, or something you found interesting and want to know more about, then let me know. If anyone's actually interested enough for it, then I plan on making a video to more easily explain some of the deep intricacies of KS. Obviously I can't do a video on the whole thing -- it would be several hours long. But if people tell me what they'd like to see, I'll be more than happy to oblige.

European Speedrunners Assembly (Winter 2018) is live this week, and they're going to be speedrunning the main six Nifflas levels (Machine, Underwater Adventure, Gustav's Daughter, Sky Flower, A Strange Dream, and This Level is Unfinished) and possibly Don't Eat the Mushroom.

The Knytt Stories segment starts Thursday at 8:29 AM GMT.

Tune in on twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/esamarathon
Or check the schedule (which converts everything to local time): https://horaro.org/esa/2018-winter or https://esamarathon.com/schedule

Have you ever wanted to play The Machine, but were disappointed at being able to see everything?
Are you dismayed by the inordinate proportion of levels that take place during the day?
Do you have constant and unrelenting fits of despair when you realize there aren't enough awful levels being created?

If you answered yes to any of these questions, then "The Machine at night" is for you! It takes all the fun, well-thought out challenge of The Machine and replaces it with a rage-inducing blackness. For those of you that haven't figured out exactly what this level is yet, the screenshots attached to this post should explain things.

Note: It is highly recommended that you are familiar with The Machine before attempting this level.

Download from knyttlevels

This is a small trickjump level I made a long time ago. It features a unique concept, but I was never fully satisfied with it, so I didn't release it. Since then, I've added an easier difficulty setting, wherein I cleaned up a lot of the unfair parts.

Download from knyttlevels

After waiting around long enough on Gass Umbra, the zappy things start to leave their tracks.

https://youtu.be/HJKScHYqSe4

Variant of this challenge. Get from the very bottom of the credits level to the very top without using anything but the regular controls.

This post originally started as an endeavor to answer questions posted in this topic and this topic. Seeing how there wasn't a 2468 challenge specific topic, however, and since the video links in either topic appear to be dead, I thought it best to start a new thread.