By the player, for the player.
My world “Polyrhythm” is being featured in the Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Market 2025! The world will be available to view, both in-person at the 47th Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival and remotely, from February 3rd to 6th, 2025. You can view the official listing on Shortfilmwire here:
More details on how to attend the market, both in-person and remotely, can be found on their website.
Hello, all.
Been a while since I posted a blog post. I use Twitter more often nowadays, so if you want more frequent updates on what I’m doing, go follow me by clicking here. Anyway, for the past week, you may have noticed that every web browser has reported this site as insecure. This is because the SSL certificate for the site expired recently. Why did it take so long to fix? A) I was slow due to IRL stuff getting in the way, B) I found out today that my website came with an email server. The certificate had auto-renewed, but it didn’t apply to the website due to that email discovery. By the time you’re reading this, though, this will be fixed and the site will be secure again.
Like the title says, I improved that world record on an offline run. There were a few optimizations that I discovered watching flarebearSR run All Levels (he’s the current WR holder for that btw). Most of the time save was in the extra levels at the end since I figured out you can make the first level’s first cycle if you jump and move forward right away. Also, I’ve decided to stop running this category until further optimizations.
Enough of me talking, here’s the run:
(here are my splits if you want to see them)
-Michael Shaw, President/Founder of Flippin’ Fun Video Games
So Fishy2, the long-awaited sequel to indie hit Fishy, finally hit the market today for a whopping $10. I’ll spare you the energy and say that it is not worth that price. It’s barely worth $5 in its current state. I would either wait until the game goes on sale/the price drops, wait for a major update that fixes most of the bad stuff, or obtain a “legitimate” copy. So far, at least five other people have started doing runs of this game. I anticipate that the category I got the world record in today will not be popular at all since it’s short and easy. That category is All Beginner Levels (which will probably change once this game gets a speedrun.com leaderboard). Basically, the goal is to beat all the levels in the Beginner difficulty, which i did in 4 minutes and 6.87 seconds. Video proof of the run is below:
Obviously, this is a bad run for right now. It can be improved by at least 2 seconds with the current route. I don’t know if I’ll be the one to lower the world record or not, but either way, I get permanent bragging rights. I’ll update this post when Fishy2 gets an SRC leaderboard.
-Michael Shaw, President/Founder of Flippin’ Fun Video Games