The Ruins of EGA-Lana is a small KS+ challenge level heavily inspired by the famous freeware game La-Mulana (except this one is made with an old-school DOS PC game look, very much like my previous level The Dithered Temple, rather than mimicking the aesthetics of a MSX game). It features bonus collectible artifacts, hidden secrets, challenges involving several KS+'s exclusive mechanics and a total of three (?) difficulty modes: Easy, Hard and Lunatic.

Despite being a very short adventure, this level was designed to have a rather high replay value by means of providing players with a different experience in each of the mentioned modes beyond the expected differences in the overall difficulty. For example, Easy mode is more of a mix of platforming and simple puzzles, whereas Lunatic mode is almost exclusively focused on the challenge aspect even with regards to the collectibles. Be sure to give each mode a try! (well, at least a couple of them... I understand Lunatic is not exactly everyone's cup of tea )

And, for those of you who are always looking for a bigger challenge... you're in luck! This level is also the setting for the first ever Play Knytt Stories contest, which is being graciously hosted by pfrangip and officially starts today!   There are 3 different categories (plus a bonus challenge) in which you can participate and have a chance to win various prizes! Be sure to have a look at the contest's thread here to learn the details and/or ask any questions you may have about it.

Hope you have fun with this level, and please feel free to post your comments/feedback/screams of frustration (depending on which version you play) here. And, if you're taking part in the contest... good luck!

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This is a very small environmental/playground KS level I made for the Knytt of the Month Klub #13 event at Glorious Trainwrecks. It's a very short one, although if you're one of those players who enjoys checking every nook and cranny for secrets, it'll probably last you for at least 30 minutes or so, as there is quite a lot of hidden content here to be found.

It's a vanilla KS level, but you can also play it in Knytt Stories Plus to enable bonus collectibles. These don't unlock any extra content, but they are shiny and therefore you totally need to gather all 100 of them

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Forgotten Realms is a sort-of-open-world playground level with a big focus on exploration. This project was mostly an attempt to string together many of my discarded/abandoned KS levels as I could, although it also features a pretty big number of brand new tilesets and assets.

It is a rather big world composed of several areas, each of them with its own distinct theme and gameplay mechanics. Some of them are merely for you to roam while you enjoy the scenery and music, whereas others will present you with classic KS challenges (traps and enemies), light mazes and even puzzles involving hidden passages and collectibles. There's a little bit of everything here!

• A total of 25 distinct areas to explore! 10 of them can be accessed simply by collecting powers. You can unlock another 7 areas by collecting keys and finding hidden passages, and 8 more by finding special collectibles and codes (see below)
• Tons of custom graphics by yours truly and many other authors (Fubaka, Purple Ink, Brian Lehmann and all the cool people who contributed to the Community Tileset Project).
• 20 tracks of ambient music by Fubaka (mostly from his albums Deparct, Proturian EP and Nihilurian EP), as well as many custom ambiance tracks.
• 9 hidden energy crystals (custom collectible). Find all of them and use them at a certain place to get access to a set of bonus areas!
• A secret glyph code divided into 5 pieces scattered through the entire world. This can be entered at a special room to unlock yet another set of bonus areas.
• Four easter egg mini-areas referencing some of my other works.

Knytt Stories + is supported but not required. This level runs in vanilla KS without any mods. However, playing it in KS+ will enable the following extra features:

• Bonus collectibles: 100 coins and 50 golden creatures. NOTE: golden creatures are generally much harder to find and/or collect than the coins and crystals. They don't unlock any new areas/features and are simply intended for players than want an added challenge.
• Extra graphical effects (custom character sprites, fog...) in some areas.
• Limited support for KS+'s map function (you need to enable the "Force Map" menu option manually, though)
• Single pass rendering enabled by default (minimizes flickering during animations and transitions)

As usual, feel free to post here asking for hints or just sharing your thoughts on the level. Hope you enjoy this adventure through these once forgotten lands! Also... happy new year!

PLEASE NOTE: This will be the final version of the level and it contains all the stuff I originally planned to make for it. Unfortunately, due to circumstances that forced my hand, I wasn't able to spend as much time as I'd have wanted on testing and polishing this final release. Hopefully this only means you might spot very minor graphical issues here and there, but if you run into any serious game-breaking problems, please let me know and I'll try to address them and release a fixed version when I can.

"The Bluebird of Happiness" is a knytt story inspired in one of Maeterlinck's works which you may be already familiar with. It's your classic "collect all powers/keys and find your way to the exit" KS adventure, spiced up with some light challenges and puzzles along the way. This level started as an attempt to make a more "Nifflas-style" classic KS level, both visually and gameplay-wise. There aren't any special themes nor distinct game mechanics / gimmicks at work here, but the story is a tad more elaborate compared to my other levels. It's also a bit longer than my usual stuff (if you aim for 100% completion).

There are a total of three endings here. The first two you can get by exploring the main area and overcoming medium/normal challenges, and the third one requires you to unlock a separate area (via a hidden code) and beat a much more challenging section (hard difficulty).


This level should run in vanilla KS without any mods. It doesn't use any of KS+'s exclusive features, although I've included map spoofs that will make it easier to use KS+'s map function if you choose to enable the "Force Map" menu option.

Hope you enjoy this adventure! Feel free to post here to share your opinion and/or report any problems you might run into.

Hell freezes over! Flying pigs spotted! Bat child found in cave! I'm finally making a large KS level


This is a project that was almost entirely born from the plethora of unfinished levels and abandoned tilesets/ideas that have been gathering digital dust in my hard drive for 2-3 years. Instead of finally discarding them for good, I decided to rescue them from oblivion and combine them all into a single large level! (probably not epic-sized, though... but I'm aiming for about 200-250 distinct screens or so).

The level will feature the classic KS progression system, although it will not be completely linear in nature. In order to reach and unlock all areas, you will have to find all power-ups and keys by thoroughly searching the lands and overcoming the occasional challenge. However, you will sometimes unlock multiple new areas at once, enabling you to explore them in any order you like.

Since this is mostly an amalgamation of many different ideas and assets (incomplete/unused tilesets and COs, abandoned levels, drafts, etcetera) and I'm focusing more on quantity over quality here, the overall level of detail and polish may not be on par with some of my other smaller releases. Still, effort is being put into making all areas look interesting and work together in a single (hopefully) cohesive experience.

And now, for the obligatory bullet list of planned features:

• Many different areas (both brand new and imported from abandoned projects) to unlock and explore!
• Lots of custom assets! (tilesets, gradients, ambiance, music and COs)
• Hidden areas and bonus collectibles to be found by those with a keen eye.
• Support for KS+'s map feature and other minor enhancements (KS+ is not required, though).

Juni is sometimes a bit too curious for her own good. She has just become trapped in what seems to be the ruins of an old underground sanctuary. Help her find the way back to the surface and maybe find whatever it's hidden there!

"Emerald Sanctuary" is just a short and very simple adventure I decided to make on a whim before resuming work in my larger projects. It's basically a classic straightforward KS challenge level with no gimmicks (only 3 COs this time ). It features ambient music by Fubaka and custom graphics by the Nifflas community (with a few contributions from me).

Playing in KS+ enables a tint filter that makes the graphics a bit shinier, whereas playing in normal KS (or other mods) results in somewhat darker but more saturated colors, so feel free to choose whichever KS version depending on your preferences!

Following on Sergio's steps, I decided to create a new thread where I'll be posting levels I made that I personally deemed too short/strange for a normal release. Be aware that most of these will be basically weird experiments, abandoned ideas, pointless timewasters or all of the mentioned. If you're okay with that (i.e. you're REALLY bored), then by all means, give them a go

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[ You Have to Put the Level into the Juni ] (~720KB -- requires KS+)



A really short joke level demonstrating the possibilities of KS+ for implementing bizarre gameplay mechanics that temporarily confuse the player. Has references to other levels and two different endings.

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[ Strolling Simulator Pro ] (~5MB -- playable in vanilla KS)



Yet another photo-realistic level. Not exactly a new idea, but it features custom ambience sounds and a few graphical effects that you might enjoy. Also, it looks a bit nicer and has a small secret if you play it on KS+.

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[ Maze of Despair ] (~6MB -- playable in vanilla KS)



An experimental maze level. Navigate your way out of this small but disorienting labyrinth. Play it on KS+ for a slightly better experience. Note: A) Controls are quite finicky. Releasing the arrow keys too fast will result in ignored commands, and holding the keys for too long will probably cause you to spin way too fast. Also, B) despite the title, Monokuma is not involved in any way.

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[ Super Juni Breakout ] (~1.5MB -- KS mods NOT recommended)



A pretty buggy and dumb Knytt Stories / Breakout crossover. Help Juni escape by bouncing around a lot and collecting the keys inside the colored blocks! Also, keep an eye open for the awesome (not!) secret ending. Note: usage of KS mods (KS+, KS Ex...) is NOT recommended, as this often results in very slow performance with this level.

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[ Bad Apple ] (~6.2MB -- works in vanilla KS)



A non-interactive experiment on (almost) full-screen video playback and CO optimization in vanilla KS. Best played/watched in full-screen or KS+'s "Hide desktop" modes.

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[ Compact ] (~4KB -- works in vanilla KS)



An attempt to make a tricky challenge/puzzle level with only one screen, using all powers/keys in vanilla KS and with a total file size of less than 4KB. It's doable, but quite hard. Try to finish it without collecting all powers/keys for added challenge (the detector doesn't count )

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[ Rhombodesia ] (~1.8MB -- requires KS+)



This is a simple playground level that started as an experiment on building a level (almost) entirely out of slopes. I ended up turning it into a KS+ collect-a-thon with platforming challenges and some custom graphics. Find and grab all 100 diamonds to unlock access to a bonus area and two secret challenges (Normal and Very Hard).

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More to come! (probably)