20th Anniversary Update
NOTE : We're on a discount cooldown! The Steam Spring Sale is March 19th !! 20th ANNIVERSARY On this day, 20 years ago, Fancy Pants Adventures was introduced to the world! I wanted to do the best I could to mark the occasion. Thank you for all the support you've given, and especi
NOTE: We're on a discount cooldown! The Steam Spring Sale is March 19th!!
20th ANNIVERSARY
On this day, 20 years ago, Fancy Pants Adventures was introduced to the world!
I wanted to do the best I could to mark the occasion. Thank you for all the support you've given, and especially for your patience over the last couple years.
Brad has been in the trenches the last few years improving upon his foundations, and the possibilities have never felt greater for Fancy Pants! Today we are proud to announce - alongside plans to expand upon Super and deliver on the Classic Pack - the next big thing for the Fancy Pants Franchise...
The Fancy Pants Adventures Online
View game pageI want to be clear, this is very much a WIP page! The priority now will be remastering World 3 for the Classic Pack. But we couldn't resist sharing these plans for the future for The Fancy Pants Adventures!
Putting the Super back in Super Fancy Pants Adventures
This may feel like a minor update, but it's been a Herculean effort from Brad to get everything running smoothly again on a nearly 9 year old game. Back when it released, Flash was still being supported by Adobe! You can imagine how some stability and performance would be lost over time. As Brad recently summed up,
I had to update almost everything to get Super FPA working
And that's putting it lightly... Every new fix seemed to break something else. Visual bugs emerged ALL over. Random animations were playing at triple speed. Assets needed new caching methods. There was a cascade of changes that I don't think even Brad initially intended to tackle.
I recently had a call with Brad, where he gave some insight into how he's restructured both Super and the Classic Pack. This should open up new possibilities for Super, simplify remastering World 3 for the Classic Pack, and opens up incredible new possibilities for the franchise!
UPDATES
Integration of the Classic Pack's improved level loading (MUCH faster!!)
New SteamInput implementation to allow for much wider gamepad support options
Upgrade to 4k level assets
Massive optimizations for improved performance
Things should feel even more smooth and responsive than before!
Hat, pants textures and other objects moved to GPU rendering
Overall asset loading improvements, including dynamic sprite packing
Solid color backgrounds are not rendered as triangulated polygon meshes, rather than wasting space in giant spritesheets
Uncapped FPS!!
Probably other things???
Brad also took this opportunity to tackle some art touch-ups he's always wanted to put more time into! This includes painting away some visible seams in later levels, and minor decorative changes.
FIXES
The game was pretty well taken apart and reassembled. I lost track of specific fixes a long time ago as new builds were being iterated upon.
In Brad's own words back in early February
I’m pretty confident the beta is at least more stable than retail right now.
But please do let us know if you encounter any new bugs as a result of this update!
In lieu of a proper fix list, I thought you might enjoy seeing a glimpse into that process through Brad's own internal patch notes.
Happy Birthday Fancy Pants Man!
I've been playing these games for 20 years, and I haven't grown tired of them yet. Publishing this series is a role I don't take the role lightly. It's a dream come true to represent what I see as the most iconic Flash games of all time. We have big plans for the future of Fancy Pants Man!
-Graeme
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