1001 Spikes is a platform game released in 2014, consisting of a series of levels with various traps and hazards. This TAS completes the whole game (both Ukampa and Antartica worlds) with four players, while collecting all skulls.
Game objectives
- Emulator used: libTAS 1.3.5
- Uses 4 Players
- Uses a suboptimal character
- Collect all skulls
- Genre: Platform
Category choice
This run completes the whole game with four players controlling the main protagonist Aban, while collecting all skulls. There's an additional restriction, where we don't allow switching characters in the middle of the run (characters are unlocked progressively after stages or skulls). The reason is for entertainment, because some characters totally break the level design of the game.
Stab launch
Stabbing another character launches it at a high speed, but with a dizzy state. This state lasts 139 frames, but can be reduced by mashing jump/attack buttons. With a perfect mashing, it can be reduced to 47 frames, which is low enough to be worth using.
Knife climbing
Your characters are invulnerable during the one frame following the knife animation. If during that frame, a character is hit from a knife of another character, he gains a small hop without the dizzy state. These can be chained to slowly gain height and cross gaps.
Stab clipping
When stabbing, Aban's hitbox is slightly moved forward, so it's back enter inside a wall. If he turns around at that point, the game will push him toward the closest free space, which can be downward, upward or to the side. When performing a high jump and a stab against a three-tiles wall, we have just enough height so that we can clip upward, resulting in doing a three-tile jump. By superposition two or more characters, they can stab each other without hitting each other.
Offscreen mechanics
A character that is offscreen for several seconds is killed. The camera tries to follow as much characters as possible, but also follow objectives. Sometimes we had to wait a bit for the group that goes to the key.
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feos: There wasn't a lot of feedback, but this movie is much more interesting than the
current run. The game shows how many skulls you've collected around 12:40, which is 30 out of 30 here. Accepting as an improvement.
