Evolution of ANTONBLAST - From the first demo all the way up to the full game

[@frostyfoxteals]

for any of you wondering where you can download these demos: a link is in the description!

[@Rubberman202]

You know, there's something charmingly simple about the first demo that I find very endearing. That dash animation was just begging for an upgrade, though. Also, thank goodness the red room theme got preserved in the full game, it's such a bop!

[@bwmpii_yt]

Talk about a huge evolution just looking at the first demo compared to now you can see a heckton of difference

[@Justcommentinhere]

Nah so many stuff got devolved from first build

[@trolguy1615]

I guess you could say Anton of different

[@bionicmanspeedruns]

devolution

[@MSCDonkeyKong]

Anton is the type of dude to drink all the shampoo in the house

[@SirigueijoCoisado]

And then he blames you for doing that

[@momothemagecat]

Nah, that seems like more of a Wario thing to do

[@virtualdash]

@@momothemagecatYeah, I think that was even one of his tips for summer

[@stupidolalsás]

nice susie deltarune reference

[@bwmpii_yt]

Nah that's more of an Annie thing tbh

[@wileecoyotegenius5955]

You can definitely see the point at which this game's movement became crazy fast

[@RandomKeyCombiner]

Thabk you for making this. As a guy who heard nothing about this masterpiece before five days ago, this vid is extremely interesting.

[@ProfessorHeavy1]

You can clearly tell when this evolved from becoming inspired from Wario Land 4 to being its own game with its own identity. Ver 2.1.1 is definitely where it started to really come into its own, especially with that title screen.

[@dataecto6135]

i miss so much the anton and annie "HA-HAHA-HA-HA!" every single day....

[@MSCDonkeyKong]

I like how the visual evolution of the first level happened, yet the layout is still basically the same. I also think it's the right move that they made Anton animate less like Wario, I think this game shows a lot of influences from non-Wario games that I think it's fair for Anton to move away from that direction. Considering Wario Land 3 is the only one to have a modern rerelease, I think just comparing the game to Wario Land might give people a very different impression to how the game is paced. Everything is paced a lot more like DKCR/DKCTF levels, and some of the later levels especially feel like they have a lot of callbacks.

[@ssg-eggunner]

how is the old anim direction wario-like

[@funnyman8161]

He has a shoulder bash for one. For two, the animation is much more subdued then it would later become

[@momothemagecat]

I still miss the sounds the poker chips used to make

[@ProbablyAlmond]

It is so weird to me that clutch boosting wasn’t always a part of Antonblast but I dunno what I expected

[@Elquenoseconectacasinunca]

The rime when anton blast wasn't inspired of crash at all Only wario land

[@AlesMsay]

it terrifies me knowing i remember when it got implemented 😭😭

[@danyo5786]

The clutch really feels like a bug or random offshoot one of the developers discovered and they just ran with it Best decision ever

[@muffinxlpro4692]

2 or 3 Years Hard work Paid off🎉💖

[@Heheheha-fd3iw]

@@muffinxlpro4692 the kickstarter was made in 2022

[@justarandomguyininternet]

Pizza tower: im i joke to you?

[@LucasBaisbrown-d4q]

@justarandomguyininternet bro the game Is finished

[@tim_oth]

Development started around 2021

[@Roku-h5r]

And first demo came out in 2022 for Patreon if I not wrong

[@kirbtunia1061]

Kinda weird how anton's older lines sounded like wario's from WL4

[@Pizzano_sugaryspire]

@@kirbtunia1061 it was actually Anton’s voice from the predecessor, antonball deluxe, the same is said for Annie.

[@cryodual]

I don't know if this is rude to say, but I kinda prefer the kickstarter's more rustic lighting to the final build's more nuclear lighting. Idk, it just ties better in with ANTONBALL and feels more like a proper shady city than some kind of toxic waste dump

[@greentieofficial]

@@cryodual to be fair, in AntonBlast’s canon, it takes place during a post apocalypse. Which explains the more nuclear looking colors and vibe

[@jonbeecee]

I do miss the old sound effects foe the chips, they were so satisfying. I'm assuming they changed the sound to be more subtle and less intrusive?

[@StarMechV]

I find fascinating how the speedrunning angle caused both Anton Blast and Pizza tower to evolve from their original concepts. Both games started as more faithful spiritual successors to Wario land 4 and both decided at some point in development to place fast speedrunning at its front gameplay-wise., something that going back to WL4 it doesn't really go for it. I almost forgot that besides the escape sequence, Wario was way more focused on the puzzle platforming aspect of it all. while Anton and Pizza tower decided to focus on a more high-thrill boost gameplay.

[@frostyfoxteals]

well said! im glad you didnt compare antonblast and pizza tower to each other like many people seem to do for whatever reason

[@Adri564style]

Also warioland isnt about speed, it focuses around secrets and plataforming, and is nice to see PT and antonblast go for a diferent route. Pt: focuses on speed and the "secrets" are just extra rooms that are really limited in the levels, the main goal (or the perfect goal) is to go very fast doing all the secrets and completing the level. And antonblast: it is slower than PT, because it focuses more on exploration, like the red rooms, rooms with more coins/chips, that give a lot of score, etc. Also the artist direction, PT is focused on elastic cartoony style, while antonblast is focused on hyper staturated animation, the entire screen is just chaos and reminds me of the early cartoon network shows

[@venom_1072]

I wasn't around for the first demo but when I went back and rewatched someone's remix of Its happy hour from Like 2 years ago yesterday and actually paid attention to the gameplay in the background my mouth was actually agape at how different it looked

[@underspace.]

ITS A BLAST TO THE PAST

[@funniwurms93]

the green and red boiler city has kinda grown on me but i still will always prefer the original palette

[@that1greekguy]

i remember playing dynamite demo 1.2 on my brother's laptop

[@markurbanowicz6619]

I hope you still can get access to the first demos and the early ones for the memories

[@cherrychip_]

You can definitely find them on the Internet Archive somewhere

[@bwmpii_yt]

There's a page on the Internet archive with a collection of all the demos of the game up to the one blast demo

[@frostyfoxteals]

check the description

[@TheFoolish727]

A giant nitpick, but I prefer the manholes to the dumpsters.

[@jmachero5852]

The early demos seemed slower paced than the final versions. Either the updates makes the game too easy or a big improvement with a balanced difficulty.

[@geometrybird]

man, what a *BLAST* from the past (get it?)

[@ooglegogle2719]

I still Have the First Demo on My Computer from The Kickstarter Page.

[@GMan9029]

Not gonna lie, I much preferred the dash from Dynamite Demo. The spin dash just feels a little to cluttered imo. Still though, incredible to see how much boiler city changed!

[@AlesMsay]

@@GMan9029 i kind of like the spin, makes you more awesome i think

[@otsu3011]

Not enough crash bandicoot in your life?

[@SuperMarioSwagger]

I miss the slower wario-like gameplay

[@Wellintovich]

did you know that the original game name was going to be red guy: the game?

[@frostyfoxteals]

do you have a source for this info

[@Wellintovich]

@frostyfoxteals the miraheze wiki from antonblast

[@frostyfoxteals]

@Wellintovich oh okay interesting...i don't know why they would name it that since antonball already existed before this but sure

[@Wellintovich]

@frostyfoxteals oh yeah i forgor! it was before antonball!

[@Хомяк-п4р]

I think in the final release in first level colors are too saturated. Especially the fact it's all green and red like the main character, I find the brown of old demos way more eyes pleasing

[@Elquenoseconectacasinunca]

So sad the antonblast demo on steam it's semi dead, i have it but i can't start it, atleast the archives are there, i gonna play the kickstarter, first dynamite demo and the one blast before *buying* the god damn game...

[@alexanderthegreat-mx5zu]

One blast demo has no changes from the final game,you can skip that one and go immediately to the final release.

[@Elquenoseconectacasinunca]

@alexanderthegreat-mx5zu The thing I'm not buying the game right now, at least i think, but *in the ( virtual ) end* I gonna blast myself because i gonna buy it

[@Elquenoseconectacasinunca]

​@@alexanderthegreat-mx5zu Maybe, but i think i gonna buy it like in the end of this year / start of 2025

[@alexanderthegreat-mx5zu]

@@Elquenoseconectacasinunca You are gonna have a hell of a good time, it's gotty of the year for me.

[@Elquenoseconectacasinunca]

@alexanderthegreat-mx5zu As a person who played dynamite 2.0 and one blast demo i can say: *yes*

[@Grimm8036]

15:14 im Guessing this is the demo thats on the switch cause they look exactly the same

[@Loganlove31750]

@Grimm8036 true. I played the demo before getting the game a few times so I can tell this isnthe nintendo demo

[@LozBoi64]

I still think Dynamite demo part 2 is the best version of the game. No doubt about it

[@frostyfoxteals]

arguable i think.

[@himynameishi302]

i started playing this game in the dynamite demo part 2 (all thanks to pizza tower)

[@Elquenoseconectacasinunca]

Me too, becuase of how the pizza tower devs are friends with summit and all then videos started and i downloaded the dynamite demo

[@maxg3677]

Can you maybe upload the kickstarter demo ?

[@maxg3677]

I want to visit og Boiler City :)

[@frostyfoxteals]

@@maxg3677 it's in the description!

[@FB64_Fakebeta]

I think someone put every Antonblast demo on the Internet archive.

[@maxg3677]

@FB64_Fakebeta the Video uploader have a Link to all Demos in the description

[@garsrandom4358]

You misssed a lot of side rooms

[@frostyfoxteals]

yeah i know sorry about that, i just didnt have time to re-record everything

[@Ivecometomakeanannouncemen-i3y]

Gonna be honest i prefer the old clutch animation

[@theivoryguy2476]

Aw man, I never realized you don't start Boiler City jumping out of the apartment anymore. That's a little lame.

[@Brunodosgameskkkk]

but you jump out of the apartment, after the first cutscene

[@Elquenoseconectacasinunca]

The game STARTS with anton or annie jumping from the apartment idk why here it's with door but at least the first time the game starts with the apartment animation

[@Brunodosgameskkkk]

@Elquenoseconectacasinunca It starts with brulo door cuz he already played the level

[@theivoryguy2476]

​@@Elquenoseconectacasinunca Oh, okay! Scathing criticism rescinded.

[@RookelCookel]

Yea! You only enter Boiler City through Brulo’s door when you go to replay it The first time you play the level, you hop through the window

[@Real_The_Goof]

I much prefer the original pixel art I also prefer the manhole covers for entering

[@Real_The_Goof]

It's as if the developers went more and more minimalistic as development went on.. it's not as pretty..