The Two Titans of Fancy Pants Speedrunning
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 ก.ค. 2022
- A Documentary by Maximum - This video covers the World Record History of The Fancy Pants Adventures: Worlds 1 and 2, and how two truly special speedrunners brought these first two Fancy Pants games to fabled speedrunning heights that were beyond anything else in series.
Support my videos on Patreon - / maximum
Enormous thank you to @ThaRixer for narrating his segment of this video! / tharixer
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Music Credits:
Music List - pastebin.com/cYQRq6LJ
Many songs in this video are from Toontown: Corporate Clash, a fantastic recreation of Disney's Toontown: Online that is worked on by a team of dedicated volunteers- corporateclash.net/
The fire Club Penguin song remixes used in this video were created by A_A_RonHD - / aaronhdyt
The Relic Song remaster was created by Zame - / zamejack
A lot of Club Penguin music has been uploaded to TH-cam in high quality by one of the game's original composers, Chris Hendricks - / chrishendricks
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Fancy Pants Links:
Fancy Pants Definitive Collection (Game Downloads) - drive.google.com/drive/folder...
FPA World 1 Speedrun.com page: www.speedrun.com/fpa1
FPA World 2 Speedrun.com page - www.speedrun.com/fpa2
Fancy Pants Speedrunning Discord - / discord
BorneGames Discord - / discord
FPA World 1 World Record - • (FWR) [132.47] - The F...
FPA World 2 World Record - • (WR) [358.37] The Fanc...
FPA World 1 TAS - • Video
@LukePlays17 ' Fancy Pants Rankings Video - • Ranking EVERY Fancy Pa...
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Maximum Personal Links:
Patreon - / maximum
Twitch - / itsmaximum
Speedrun.com Profile - www.speedrun.com/user/Maximum
Speedruns Channel - / moremaximum
Twitter - / itsmaximum_
Discord Server - / discord
World Record Graphs - / speedrungraphs
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Corrections:
- Super Spider Skip in level 4 of World 2 was actually found by AJC0MICS, not dha.
- At 51:39, the text is supposed to say July 2nd, 2021, not 2020.
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In 2004, a bored college student named Brad Borne started learning how to create animations in games in Flash, as he quickly brought a character from his notebooks named "Fancy Pants Man" into the digital realm. He began work on a game featuring this protagonist that would eventually become known as The Fancy Pants Adventures: World 1, a 2D platformer that featured completely free-form, hand-drawn levels, something that was really unlike anything that Flash had seen before. The series truly skyrocketed in popularity once Fancy Pants World 2 released, which improved upon the already great first entry in almost every way. The game quickly caught on with a casual audience, many of whom found tons of replay value in simply playing the same levels over and over while trying to optimize their movement as much as possible. Some of these individuals became dedicated enough to play the games over and over again to see how fast they could really go.
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World Record Progression Graphs Created Using- flourish.studio/
World Record Data Obtained Through the Speedrun.com API- github.com/speedruncomorg/api
#maximum #speedrun #fancypants - เกม
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Go fast, go fancy!
I just found this video, and I figured you’d be one of the two. Grats dude
When I saw your name blurred I knew it was you :)
Woah
@@tm3ind Reeeeeeeeeeeeeeee lol
:D
I got home in the middle of watching this, my wife saw it, and immediately said 'Is that Fancy Pants!" This women is not a gamer at all, but apparently played it 10 years ago in middle school.
thats amazing lmao
Shes a keeper
That's how you know that you just found your life-long partner
wholesome af
everyone who played fancypants loves fancypants forever.
Thanks for having me on! Incredible stuff maximum. Outdid yourself
It was a pleasure to work with you man :D
@@Maximum just wanna say that this video is one of my absolute favorites. I love how you put everything together it’s just 10/10
I was not expecting to see you here.
@@Galacticinvader7 same
500th like congrats
I love how dha is always swearing and still unhappy while luciousness is yelling LETS GOOOOO the whole time
The two types of speedrunners LOL
the duality of speedrunners
that's perfectionism for ya
That's like, a perfect rival duality too
Yeah thats funny
I was absolutely obsessed with Fancy Pants as a kid. I used every opportunity to play the first and second part. My sister and I drew our own levels, stories, gameplay scenarios etc. Once my dad took a picture of us holding our "fanarts" and sent them to Brad in an e-mail. And a few days later, he actually responded. He sent us a picture of characters from the game waving and a short message dedicated to us. For a 7 year old it was incredible. I still remember how happy I felt when I saw that drawing. Still one of the best gifts I've received :)
That is so incredibly wholesome
So excited to see speedruns of these games getting some attention! I've been a part of the FPA speedrunning community for a few years; I made the SFPA autosplitter and briefly held the any% and glitchless world records for Fancy Pants 3. These games' communities are criminally small. Hopefully your video can spark some interest.
Oh wow, huge props for contributing to the community by making the sfpa autosplitter! I made all of the individual autosplitters for the Red Ball games, which was a huge improvement for splitting, even though load-removal isn't a necessary thing in those games.
Same, love that/those games
is there a community for flash speed running? a discord or something?
the movement in this game just looks so cool despite being so simple
It also feels so freaking good.
@@kodycore agreed
True
It's SO GOOD. This is one of the best platforms ever. I don't know why its not more popular
It's so smooth and flowing.
1:18:53 Nailed it 😎
But seriously, thanks for including me! It's so random to see this after it's been so long. And it's fun to see all the improvements that these proper runners have made 😁
Wow! Super glad that you were able to find the video. It's always amazing to see the older runners stop by in the comments. And, of course, congrats on your accurate prophecy!
YOOOO
YOOOO indeed
@@Luciousness YOOOO cool to see a speedrunning legend acknowledging their predecessors
Absolutely insane you’re here
What we need is an RL rival meetup between Luciousness and dha. Along with a photoshoot of them wearing oversized fancy pants shorts in their respective colours (L in blue and dha in orange).
Genius
then they fight to the death
@@cozycr8485 speed running each others death wr
Oh man, it's almost criminal that these games have only been covered a little in speedrunning. Brad Borne was the guy EA contracted to make a Mirror's Edge flash demake! Thanks again for your hard work and everyone who contributed.
True
I had no idea! But talk about a perfect man for the job, Brad earned it
The fact that there are two people and two games, and how the world record holders flipped THREE times in the span of a year as they pushed the games to new levels of optimization is insane.
Easily one of the best max videos I've ever watched
333 👍
This dude casually created one of my favorite childhood games what a legend
The nostalgia, man! I completely forgot this game existed! The music is hitting me in the feels!
I’m really about to watch am hour and a half explaining the story of 2 people I’ve never heard of who had a rivalry I didn’t know existed about a game I’ve never even heard of, and I’m gonna love every second of it
Between yours and Summoning Salt’s recent video, I find it cool how documenting the history of speedruns plays a part in the history itself
29:39 Super spider skip was actually found by AJcomics, 0/10 unwatchable video smh
No but in all serious this was such an amazing video to watch, perhaps your best one yet. I’ve been watching ever since the sub 20 train video, and you’ve been a huge inspiration to me and I’m sure many others. It’s crazy to think that I’ve gotten to know you better ever since then, and now actually appearing in one of your videos, something that I never would’ve thought was possible. I say this pretty often but the Fancy Pants series really needs more attention, and I couldn’t be more grateful for this putting the series in front of the eyes of many more people. This story is just one of many in the community and there are still many more to come :)
I am so glad that we can shine a light on these incredible games! It was a pleasure working with you on this video :D
Also, I can't believe that dha lied to me....
xD
You seem cooler than dha anyway
@@Maximum He probably didn't mean to lie
I love when people make things happen in a montage to the beat of the music like it is done at 31:33
I do that in every montage :^)
@@Maximum I hope I caught onto this in your previous montages, because I probably slept on several instances of the sickest editing trick
Cause I surely didn't notice it at 24:08 :(
Now don't mind me, I'll just go and rewatch the Pizzatron 3000 montage :0
Edit: damn does the moment at 32:13 go hard
@@Amoongus i mean some montages have more sync than others, but I am always taking cues from the music
Sneakman is still the best montage song IMO.
I legitimately hate it.
1:11:59 Dang I was so close to being in the video, I'm 4th on the leaderboard for the world 1 remix (2 seconds behind DylCat). Really impressive video!
GG either way!
L Maximum W Pasta Omelette
go for it king #pastasweep
Hi *prepares*
Pasta Omelette
😂
silly name
@@GGamerLiam Hahaha, I used a random word generator since I'm terrible at making usernames
"this was EARLY 'modern internet'"
World Record Progression in Both games:
3:00 18/3/2007, Mexican415 World 1 4:36
5:14 3/1/2008, lacoolio12 World 1 4:22
7:37 26/1/2008, Doppletronica World 2 8:44.87
8:05 27/1/2008, Doppletronica World 1 NG+ 2:56.93
9:04 13/2/2008, Samwise415 World 2 8:25.97
10:23 23/3/2008, Zantier Ta'sa World 1 NG+ 2:26.20
11:43 [NOT WR] 26/3/2008, taylordaman World 1 NG+ 2:36.13
12:17 27/3/2008, sharkd59 World 1 2:56.63
12:48 3/11/2009, TheVoiid World 1 2:24.67
14:01 11/4/2010, nppro93 World 2 8:14.47
17:18 21/9/2012, ThaRixer World 2 7:47.13
21:08 27/8/2013, IWannaBeThePie World 2 7:32.37
22:49 9/10/2014, EyeOf_newt World 2 7:09.90
26:29 26/12/2014, dha World 1 2:24.63
27:18 11/1/2015, dha World 2 6:47.73
30:12 15/1/2015, Foulco 2:24.17 & 2:21.63
31:35 16/1/2015, dha World 1 2:20.93 & 28/5/2015, World 2 6:43.60 & 13/6/2015, World 2 6:42.00 & 16/6/2015, World 2 6:38.53
34:08 18/4/2017, Jumpyluff World 1 2:20.87
34:14 29/4/2017, dha World 1 2:20.20
34:58 2/5/2017, dha World 1 2:18.60
36:37 7/5/2019, YesImEmber World 1 NG+ 2:18.53 & 20/10/2019, World 1 All Trophies 3:33.23
37:04 25/11/2019, YesImEmber World 1 2:18.00
37:43 2/2/2020, dha World 1 2:17.83
38:27 7/4/2020, dha World 2 6:26.47
40:29 3/7/2020, MRL World 1 2:17.60
41:08 10/7/2020, DylCat World 1 2:17.57
41:32 24/7/2020, dha World 1 2:17.37
41:44 25/7/2020, DylCat World 1 2:17.20 & 5/8/2020, dha World 1 2:17.10 & DylCat World 1 2:17.00 & 2:16.90 & 6/8/2020, dha World 1 2:16.73 & DylCat 2:16.50
43:20 20/7/2020, DylCat World 1 NG+ 2:17.07 & 13/7/2020, DylCat World 1 All Trophies 3:30.67
44:14 [NOT WR] 15/8/2020, dha World 1 2:16.20
44:55 24/1/2021, Luciousness World 1 2:27.13 & 28/1/2021, Luciousness World 1 2:23.40 & 29/1/2021, Luciousness World 1 2:21.90 & 1/2/2021, Luciousness World 1 2:20.73 & 3/2/2021, Luciousness World 1 2:18.90 & 6/2/2021, Luciousness World 1 2:17.90 & 9/2/2021, Luciousness World 1 2:17.17 & 2:17.00
47:50 14/2/2021, Luciousness World 1 2:16.20 & NG+ 2:15.83
49:00 14/3/2021 (Note: he claimed it after it turned midnight, so it counts as the 14th), Luciousness World 1 2:15.83 again? & 19/3/2021, Luciousness World 1 All Trophies 3:28.43
50:18 10/4/2021, Luciousness World 2 6:22.40
51:38 2/6/2021 (Yes, he did make an error putting 2020 here, but Idrc, and neither should you, especially since it's a 1h21m video), dha World 1 2:15.63 & Luciousness World 1 2:15.60
52:41 3/6/2021, Luciousness World 1 2:14.77
54:26 20/6/2021, dha World 1 2:14.43
55:27 12/7/2021, Luciousness World 1 2:13.77 & 15/7/2021, dha World 2 6:04.70
58:28 14/10/2021, Luciousness World 2 6:02.63 & 7/11/2021, dha World 1 2:13.47
1:00:52 9/11/2021, dha World 1 2:13.30
1:02:21 29/6/2022, Luciousness World 1 2:12.47 & 9/7/2022, dha World 2 5:58.37
Be sure to tell me in case I've made mistakes! I don't mind
I spotted an error, didn't think it was possible
In the 51:38 record, Lucious*n*ess was called Luciousess
And I also see that he's put a correction for the 2020 thing
Is it because of me? 🧐
2:20.87 was by Jumpluff
Damn the effort to make this
Loved every second of this video! Great work!
Yo thanks PikaJ, been loving your stuff as well! :D
i love this!
can’t believe the speedrunning history of this game was started by the LEGEND
mexican415
ayo nor
This reminds me a lot of the Zelda WR Explained video by Bismuth. A video that has so many new things added that it brings up the quality to a whole new level. The different font, the variety of music choices, the many different narrators, and of course the length, are all things that make me want to create my own videos. You, Bismuth, and Summoning Salt are definitely my biggest inspirations for how to edit any videos that I eventually want to make, and I am so happy that I got recommended your sub 20 train video back in 2020.
Bismuth is so good
also with Shift's videos on bfbb speedrunning
Look into using Google Earth for animated graphics.
I forgot how gorgeous, how smooth, how FANCY these (first two) games were! Clearly the pinnacle of Flash games.
It was an honor helping you with the video! This game has so much charm and personality put to these games that it's a shame that it isn't exactly super popular in the speedrunning scene nowadays. It really is awesome to know that I managed to have an impact on this community just by running my favorite flash game series. I really highly recommend running these games if you were a fan of this series or a newcomer in general! It may seem dead for WR possibility but it really is not so. This is exactly the situation when I first joined the community, and look what happened! When I first joined, the record seemed so optimized that I only wanted to see how fast I could go, but I managed to be a contender. I don't doubt there's still more to find in these games too!! Thank you for making this video max, and now I guess it's time to run world 2 again.. :) here's my twitch if anyone wants to watch. www.twitch.tv/luciousnesss
Agreed these games really deserve to be more popular in the speedrunning community its great and yeah this video was fantastic.
huge fan of urs!
@@camila-sc2dd brah
@@Luciousness breh
Broh
"If you managed to get to the end of the video..."
Bitch, please! Your videos are always a treat to watch, Maximum! And they have improved in quality so much ever since Red Ball. I may assume they will only continue to get better in the future. Like, guest appearances? Wild, man!
Hearing Sky Tower playing made me like your channel even more than I already did.
PMD is the best
Holy shit I remember playing this game when I was younger, was such a legendary game! Thanks for making this video it made me go back and play it again for old times sake!
I love so much your soundtrack choices its almost fit the footage flawlessly
I love that the strat is called the “blaze of glory”
Alternate title: 2 speedrunners battle eachother to make their opponent blueballed
What a blast from the past. I remember thinking as a kid how smooth and fluid the motion felt in this game so it makes sense it is speedrun to this day. wow
great video. I also appreciated the minute or so of rude buster that played.
update: world 2 is unmoved in the top 3
world 1, however, has seen many changes and even Luciousness himself has been dethroned by the legendary return of Dylcat.
What a fascinating game to speedrun
31:00 the club penguin music is absolutely perfect thanks for the memories
I love what videos like this emphasize about the speedrunning community. It's not just the most optimal runners. It's every person lower on the leaderboards that discovered a new strat that contributes to the perfect run.
That one spider spawning strat being lost to time for like a decade shows how much of a difference something like that can make, when they were formerly shaving off fractions of seconds.
this game, nitrome games, and zombotron were all my fav flash games as a kid
So glad that somebody covered this. This series of games has my favorite movement of any 2D platformer. You can tell that Borne had spent countless amounts of hours doing small refining and tinkering to make it absolutely perfect. The slide (especially in World 3 and Super) is extremely satisfying. It makes it so fun to jump from high up points and gain as much speed as possible. Animations on Fancy Pants Man himself is animated extremely fluidly which surprisingly enough makes the game feel way more fluid.
Fancy pants adventure looks like what a modern Indie game looks like
53:35 "And if you recognize my voice there at the end, [fading-voice.mp4] that's because I was being dragged into the shadow dimension"
Summining salt just made a video about Mario Kart Double dash and one of his older videos completely changed the Speedruning history of the game just like your red ball video influenced *THE SECOND TITAN* to change this games history as well!
im pretty sure every single one of my videos has had some sort of impact on the game being covered, which is really cool
I have dangerous levels of nostalgia for this game.
Haven't even seen the video and I'm 99% sure it's about dha and luciousness. That's just how prolific they are at the game o7
Joke: At 7:44, the melody changes to "Gadget Room" from Club Penguin Elite Penguin Force
Im a massive speedrunning doco fan and this is the one thing i love about the youtube algorithm. finding gems like these. Keep it up bro
fancy pants adventure was so fun. the momentum and speed of it was great, it all felt so smooth
LEGENDARY video. The amount of work you put into your videos is just mind blowing. You deserve way more subs fr
Always looking forward to your videos. You keep improving with every upload. Very impressive
Your vids are so underrated, you have the production quality of a 1m+ sub channel.
i'm really glad to hear your channel has been getting a whole lot of attention. the flash era of gaming was an incredibly special time and videos like these remind me that it's not nostalgia that made the era great, but the genuine efforts of people just like the fancy pants dev
certainly one of my most favorite History of Speedrunning type videos ive seen so far! loved it.
im hyped for this
Excellent video. I remember this game fondly
Awesome video! A great watch with nice and engaging comentary! 🔥
Easily one of my favorite videos of yours so far !!!
This is the second time that I've seen a video that wouldn't have existed if the person hadn't made a prior video about speedrunning a game. First Summing Salt and now you. You're an example of one of the best, not just speaking to the history of it, but actually contributing to it even with your videos now.
Fantastic video! Love to see Fancy Pants getting some time in the spotlight :)
This video was absolutely AMAZING, I'm so proud of you for talking about our legendary childhood flash games
Lets go! New long form video. Love these types of videos Maximum, keep it up!
The fact that people get so good they begin fighting in fractions of seconds is insane
Always been a huge fan of Luciousness it’s great to see him finally getting recognition 😊😊
THIS VIDEO IS SO GOOD!!!! AMAZING WORK!!!
What an incredible video. Cannot wait for the next one!
We will see more records in this game. Because, "People who used to break FPA 1.2 records may think that this cannot be done further" and the result: Years later (ie you saw it in this video) that they can break better records. Then, what will happen?
My Opinion: Any person who can think just like a computer can shock the audience with tactics and playing style that no one has ever known or seen. (How can this happen? Only time can tell)
Man, i really miss playing this game as a kid. It was surelly one of the best games ive ever played.
Also i never knew there were speedruns of Fancy Pants, but i guess almost every game made has been speedran.
Awesome job with this piece Max! From the investigation, research, accounts from speedrunners to the sound track! Really great job! Awesome to see Flash games speedrun history being told as well :)
It is great to know that your red ball speedrunning video brought so many new speedrunners to the flash speedrun scene
46:16 Love to see jstris speedrunning in the background of the video. Proud to be one of the 9 active players!
And that's reason why this video intrest me to speedrun fancy pants world 2 any% ;) great work maximum
Good luck!
Fantastic video! The longer format allows for more in-depth explanation and more records showcased, which is really nice to see. Great speed-running content!
Also, the graphs and player cards (those with the time of the run, player name, player picture and date of the run) are perfect!
The Fancy Pants games were my favorite game to play back then. Seeing it get that attention and speedruns makes me so happy
This video was quite fancy.
God!! I really loved playing Fancy Pants on Y8 back in the days!
I'm very surprised this channel doesn't have more subscribers, everything is very well made and engaging! I'm truly impressed
Fancy pants was my absolute favorite flash game as a kid and when i saw this pop up i knew it was gonna be a banger of a video. Good job man, you made my day
Yooo this video is sick! As someone who's been apart of the FPA speedrunning community for a few years now I'm so glad this games getting some attention! Also I've finally done it, I Rickrolled everyone at 1:13:11 lol
Legendary stuff.
Ricky really out here finding a way into the speedrunning history of my entire childhood
Another banger video my man, these are genuinely some of the best the best speed running videos on TH-cam
Thank you so much for the music list in the descr
more videos need this
Hey, this video was great as always, Max!
I was on a few of those late night discord calls with Lucious - I don't remember whether I was actually there for any records (maybe the 134.77?), and it was always a chill way to end my day, or relax when I couldn't get to sleep. If anyone ends up in a position where they can support a friend doing runs in VC, do it. :)
DylCat is an actual legend. Man went ham.
Also, 17:45 Rocket: Robot on Wheels music is sooo good
Another absolute banger video Maximum! God I love everything about your content. Thanks again for the awesome speedrunning content ;)
crazy quality -i can tell an unthinkable amount of research went into this
Ricky was YEARS ahead of his time
Void really set a impressive score ahead of his time
I love how the clips are pretty much the same thing with small variations over and over lol. Highly entertaining video. Loved it.
So great to finally see this video!! I know it's been in the works for a while.
This is great! I loved playing the Fancy Pants Adventure series as a kid. You should make a video about the Trap Adventure game. I have a lot of knowledge about both of the speedruns and their history but I don’t really have the biggest audience. Also, the game deserves a lot of attention lol
the rivalry between dylcat and dhc was really interesting, and i think dylcat deserves a bit of credit!
Dude your vids just keep getting better and better! Incredibly entertaining, so well edited and narrated.
10/10 video!!
Dude your narration is freaking outstanding, wow
Hey, I know that Luciousness guy. He used to make so many giveaways. I'm proud of how far my boy has come.
brah
breh
Me after 15 minutes in the video: okay, now it is impossible for them to be able to do a wr
Literally 1 minute later: fuck
amazing video as always Max good job bro
Fantastic presentation as usual! Always love your uploads. (I also like them)
i remember playing the demo of this game when i was really little (im pretty sure the full game was out back then but i didnt know)
Awesome video, your editing and music choices are amazing
Also, on the topic of music, the track at 27:20 is called "The Smell of a Scary Beast"
Played this all the time in my childhood. I replayed it recently, all worlds and got the super adventure game as well. Super fun with amazing osts and beautiful art
Wow, this is a feature-length documentary that's consistently high quality throughout. Super impressive!
This is gonna be cool