Knytt Stories

Pater Alf · Post by **Pater Alf** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 0:15

Some of you might remember the game "Knytt" by Nifflas (for those of you who don´t remember you can find it here: http://curlysworldoffreeware.com/game_i ... gameid=111 ). It was a mixture between platform and exploration game with wonderful graphics and atmosphere, but with a lack of interaction (with the inhabitants of Knytt´s world) and action. All in all more a piece of art than a real game.

Now Nifflas has released a sequel called "Knytt Stories" and from my first impression the game is more challenging now. There are much more monsters and special abilities (upgrades) to be found now and there are three difficulty modes.
The basic game consists of the tutorial and one adventure ("The Machine"), but there are several new adventures you can download on Nifflas homepage. And if you still think the game is to easy there is an easy to use editor for creating your own adventures.

Developer: Nifflas

Download: http://curlysworldoffreeware.com/game_i ... gameid=143

Download size: 33.8 MB

Year: 2007

Status: We have permission to host the game

eMTe · Post by **eMTe** » Sat Sep 08, 2007 9:42

Much better than Knytt, challenges make the idea far more interesting, however there's still more safe running and jumping than need of proving skills.

eMTe · Post by **eMTe** » Sun Sep 09, 2007 22:44

Bump. Finished.

Too short, some insane jump'n'climb combos in last sections, better than Knytt. I still think Nifflas at some point should try to make a long, challenging action/adventure game with many enemies and hard puzzles. With addition of his stylish graphics, excellent music and care for details it would be a major hit. Sticking to emo games is senseless for such a talented artist.

Scythe · Post by **Scythe** » Sun Sep 09, 2007 22:52

That's harsh. There should be more emo games IMO.

eMTe · Post by **eMTe** » Sun Sep 09, 2007 23:01

Misunderstanding. IMO there should be MORE AND STILL MORE emo games. But different, not only Seiklus clones. Making games which all look alike and are played alike may be nail to the coffin of genre. Im talking of pushing the limits, not abandoning the unique style.

Scythe · Post by **Scythe** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 2:15

Ah. We can certainly agree that more variety is good.

It was probably the word "senseless" that made me cringe.

eMTe · Post by **eMTe** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 20:10

After playing expansion pack Ive slightly changed my mind.

Slightly. Official expansion levels are much harder to beat, but instead of puzzles requiring thinking and environment observation player is confronted with mad run/jump/flight/fall combos. Not exactly what I was thinking of.

eMTe · Post by **eMTe** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 21:34

Nifflas announced that he's going to abandon all projects related to Knytt.

http://nifflas.ni2.se/forum/index.php?topic=2094.0

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To be honest, I just lost all my inspiration.

To explain all this: I still consider Knytt my best game, simply because I just created something I liked. Although I'm really satisfied with Knytt Stories too (there are many environments and places that really express me), I took a small step away from just doing my thing, into trying to create something that the audience would specifically like (I was planning to sell an expansion pack after all).

The success of KS wasn't a good thing for me though. Now I'm too scared that my new games won't be successful, and the pressure I'm putting on myself that not only I must like my games but that it must also be a 'hit', takes away my inspiration.

KE for example - A week ago I was motivated to create a large environmental game with solid exploration, but then I just got too worried about posts about the lack of challenge, and started adding features I never wanted just because of requests I should never had listened to. Why did the game need faster transportation between areas, teleportation, faster balloons, custom objects, puzzles and challenge and blah blah blah anyway? I suddenly found myself adding features that I never wanted the game to have just to please the audience, it's no wonder I lost the inspiration.

To remind myself why I create games, I'm canceling the Knytt Experiment project. I'll make the build 012 source available to download soon. Neither will I touch KS again, because if I added something to it now, it wouldn't be because I wanted to anyway.

I'll definitely keep creating games, but I need to find the way back to the spirit I had when I created Knytt, when nothing mattered except just the artistic expression. One step in this is probably to keep my future projects secret. You'll probably not even know about them before the release.

And the final word: Sorry about all this. I can only blame myself - I just don't understand how I could let the pressure of creating successful games take away the personality from my current projects. I'll definitely have to think things over to get my inspiration back. The solution is probably to start a new project on my own - just something I like to do without any intentions to be successful. Something without any previews, screen shots, or betas before the release.

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Scythe · Post by **Scythe** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 15:35

Well, shame that, but we do have Knytt Stories, which is quite wonderful, comes with extra scenarios and an editor. Nifflas may well be back with something just as magical in the future. I thoroughly enjoyed Knytt Stories as a fine artsy, cutesy platformer.

eMTe · Post by **eMTe** » Mon Mar 24, 2008 15:32

We might want to upload some expansions pack, at least official ones:

http://nifflas.ni2.se/index.php?main=02 ... ore_Levels

Pater Alf · Post by **Pater Alf** » Tue Mar 25, 2008 1:39

I will upload the official expansion packs today. Please remind me if I forget about it...

Post by **Chroelle** » Tue Mar 25, 2008 10:05

Reminder!

Pater Alf · Post by **Pater Alf** » Tue Mar 25, 2008 12:15

Wow, that's an early reminder. Day just started for me as I just got out of bed. But I will do as I told right after breakfast...

Pater Alf · Post by **Pater Alf** » Tue Mar 25, 2008 15:10

Done! You can download the expansion packs "A Strange Dream" and "Third Party Expansion" as well as the single level "Gustav's Daughter" from our game info page now:

http://curlysworldoffreeware.com/game_i ... gameid=143