osu!mapping: aspire

explaining the history of aspire mapping contests, what about them interests me, and how that relates to my interest in ordinary maps
vote for the most recent aspire: new.ppy.sh/community/contests/43
previous mapping contests: osu.ppy.sh/p/contest
more recent mapping contests: new.ppy.sh/community/contests/
video of recent aspire entries taken from: • Astonished Cormorant
patreon: / pishifat
twitter: / pishifat
maps referenced:
nekodex - circles! by pishifat: osu.ppy.sh/b/782310
Demetori - Fall of Fall ~ The Door Into Summer by GoldenWolf: osu.ppy.sh/s/574853
kors k feat. Yukacco - On The Beat (Akira Complex Remix) by Naitoshi: osu.ppy.sh/s/352083
Ayane - Itsumo Kono Basho de by Kalibe: osu.ppy.sh/s/549739
Rameses B - Flaklypa by -kevincela-: osu.ppy.sh/s/190390
cYsmix feat. Emmy - Tear Rain by jonathanlfj: osu.ppy.sh/s/140662
Kuba Oms - My Love by W h i t e: osu.ppy.sh/s/163112
Matsumoto Sara - Suika by handsome: osu.ppy.sh/s/485022
IAHN - Candy Luv (Short Ver.) by Taeyang: osu.ppy.sh/s/456054
raja - the light by Damnae: osu.ppy.sh/b/671412
IAHN - Candy Luv by Frostings: osu.ppy.sh/b/979175
Delta Heavy - Ghost by MashaSG: osu.ppy.sh/s/558303
LeaF - Evanescent by Bonzi, fartownik, Low, EvilElvis, fanzhen0019, Nakagawa-Kanon: osu.ppy.sh/p/contestresults?c=12
LeaF - Evanescent by Charles445: osu.ppy.sh/b/529285
Billain - Boogie by Broccoly & byfar: osu.ppy.sh/b/966177
U1 overground - Dopamine by fanzhen0019: osu.ppy.sh/b/494818
IAHN - Transform (Original Mix) by Monstrata: osu.ppy.sh/s/484689
NOMA - Brain Power Long Version by Skystar: osu.ppy.sh/s/432822
Helbline - The Solace of Oblivion by unknown creators: new.ppy.sh/community/contests/43
Yusadesu - Re:TrymenT by MinG3012: osu.ppy.sh/b/1145513
ChouCho - Yasashisa no Riyuu by pishifat: osu.ppy.sh/s/545331
Camellia - Exit This Earth's Atomosphere by rrtyui: osu.ppy.sh/b/1114721
Pa's Lam System - City Lights Feat. EVO+ , Jinmenusagi (Pa's Lam System Remix) by byfar: osu.ppy.sh/s/575809
CLIFF EDGE feat. Nakamura Maiko - The Distance by handsome: osu.ppy.sh/s/580375
TK from Ling Tosite Sigure - unravel by handsome: osu.ppy.sh/s/549212
Receptor - Adrenaline by deetz: osu.ppy.sh/s/239459

[@Jmannorway]

inb4 we get auditory illusions through hitsounding in the fourth aspire

[@scy2324]

this is gonna be quoted on reddit next year

[@miweneia]

already took a screenshot xd

[@woobyy]

roger

[@BowieProYT]

“People can’t decide if this hit sound says 1-2 or Farm”

[@wolfetteplays8894]

Jarle Kluge there isn’t any :(

[@MillhiBiscotti]

2:38 me on the left AND on the right

[@nowaaru]

nice!

[@rkxd1337]

Bonzi xD

[@atypicalcomplextimesignatures]

When will you win one lol

[@paper2222]

y u gud @ aspire

[@coldfin]

whats your entry i want to play it

[@fornax985]

"We can't make something inovative, everything was done!"... Hello i'm Aleph 0

[@IncompYT]

2:07 pishi swears? What a time to be alive.

[@atypicalcomplextimesignatures]

Incomp oof incomp

[@bananya6020]

still 2nd

[@chitoge4321]

xD

[@user-vg1zn8tm3x]

i was suprised like hell

[@pachicore]

Smh didn't even talk about dab slider

[@KazukiP]

wHAT

[@deboraosu9673]

D SE DAB,DAB DA DAB DA DAB DAB DAB

[@wispy9859]

Debora osu! That map is cursed

[@tay_piss_saucer_mk.400]

+CalvinWinz ye

[@mrmcnugget4205]

no noob says it 120000000 times HAHAHAHAHAHAH LOL (laughing) XDDDDDD LOLZOR btw i can do hard songs in osu :) my discord is General Ryan Murphy #7981 messsage me if playing :))) together!!!" xDDDD (i can teach u ) Noob says (lol)

[@raman9902]

i..i liked tear rain :p

[@darcsyde345]

Raman D I think flaklypa and my love are decent

[@ragnarokvii]

Very possible. After all, he said those maps were uninteresting, but not objectively “bad”.

[@diplogg6782]

Generic does not always equal bad. I also enjoyed tear rain but it's pretty bland compared to some other maps.

[@Jett-0n]

in before someone animates a whole video using slider glitching

[@DeviousHands]

im from the future. not through glitching, but through really clever node placement!

[@Universe-gp9lo]

@@DeviousHands What's the future like?

[@veevobyte01]

that comment was foreshadowing

[@mrmcnugget4205]

no noob says it 120000000 times HAHAHAHAHAHAH LOL (laughing) XDDDDDD LOLZOR btw i can do hard songs in osu :) my discord is General Ryan Murphy #7981 messsage me if playing :))) together!!!" xDDDD (i can teach u ) Noob says (lol)

[@a1graa]

@@mrmcnugget4205 are you okay

[@kipuru2247]

Aspire mappers 3 years ago: there no more space to innovate! xnor xnor xnor: Allow me to introduce myself.

[@kuzan_aokiji]

Mr.Helix: We are the future

[@capsaicin5332]

@@kuzan_aokiji Mr Helix didn't really do anything new though, storyboard mapping had been around for years, he had already made both Aleph-0 and disconnected hardkore in 2018, and pikaquims Aleph-0 was from even earlier than that. Time traveler was really just a polishing of the mapping style

[@Koubles]

@@capsaicin5332 That's true. I think he's paved the way for storyboard maps to be the main way to express creativity in osu mapping though. His maps are super interesting and the storyboard elements allow him to build on top of osu to create an experience of playing the map that is beyond breaking the game for cool effect. Like for instance his most recent map essentially being a whole new rhythm game in its own right beyond osu with how the storyboards are done. And it seems like a lot of aspire maps are heading in that direction too, like with the one ctb map where you have to dodge the space invaders, essentially making a whole new gamemode within osu.

[@capsaicin5332]

@@Koubles yeah, they're cool and make it funky now is a really good map, but I really hope that isn't the way aspire maps go since its becoming less and less new every year. The point of aspire is to push boundaries and create something truly innovative, and storyboard maps are becoming stale. I hope more aspire maps take inspiration from XNOR since that is true creativity and the innovation that pishi was saying was missing from the later aspires.

[@Koubles]

@@capsaicin5332 I don't think all aspire maps will go that way, but I do think that a large porion will transition over simply because of the diversity and different mechanics a SB map can create vs regular mapping. Maybe we'll see a divide in the two map-types competing against eachother to make the best map.

[@natemiinaj]

Now you're ready to become an *o s u r h y t h m c h a m p i o n!*

[@f1d248]

*r y t h m*

[@meb5165]

introducing, the *s L i D E r*

[@__Robin_______8765]

I think this is the first time I've heard pishi say fuck...

[@spongechair]

The "build-your-own" aspire kit. Beautiful.

[@digtalfear1177]

Your videos are amazing dude, keep it up!

[@teamHackedByMe]

Pishifat ASMR for the night. Hell yeah.

[@petey5009]

Aspire 1: Innovative slider manipulation and velocity changes Aspire 2: Slider animations / art Aspire 3: Extreme + unique slider distortions Aspire 4: Creative storyboard gimmicks Aspire 5: Unique song choices + Maps themed around central ideas

[@DicoTheRedstoner]

love your maps just found your channel, interesting video. :)

[@neopixelosu]

And then someone came out with time traveller and it was absolutely amazing

[@thisisnotacti]

"This is a big FUCK YOU to conventional mapping." That made my day lol

[@mrpepe6429]

Introducing the ghost slider

[@ENI232]

Welp, just found your channel, didn't even realize I have quite a few of your maps hahas

[@sh_dragon]

Hmm... Slider animations... Slider distortions. Combine the two, and you might get special effects? Idk.

[@44tharia46]

flying butterfly

[@44tharia46]

inb4 anime drawn in cs10

[@sh_dragon]

DodoXek inb4 ufotable gets hold of osu. I'd watch the hell out of that tbh.

[@44tharia46]

wait check this out a song played with hitsounds

[@remoteferret]

this already exists! there are a couple BMS songs that have maps like this. sagashi mono is one (osu.ppy.sh/s/177187,) and I believe the other is also an onoken song. there might be more, but those are the ones I know of

[@dextresen]

The slider distortion was cool as hell.

[@sonichaven]

I've never seen that second aspire winner before. I've seen and thought of using sliders to animate before, but that butterfly is something far beyond that.

[@Dark-xi7hd]

Pishi: now click when the outer circle is on the inner white circle Aspire: *ten light years ahead of us*

[@TehGlitchGuide]

another great video

[@absurddive]

I loved monstrata's aspire map.. and I get the same feeling pishi!

[@KingQuetzal]

I've had an idea for a map for a while now. Make a bunch of difficulties that are based on screen size, aspect ratio, and distance from the screen. Place notes only in the eye's natural blind-spots.

[@mombei9835]

You should make a video about the unrankable techniques used in Aspire maps. I know there is a source somewhere but I think you'd be able to expand more thoroughly through a video

[@SakurauchiRiko]

mmmm my weekly dose of pishi's voice

[@over_loadcode]

i'm from the future, we got storyboard for a year then next year we got something new which got beaten by storyboard somehow

[@TheDaringstDo]

Holy shit ok I havent actually seen any of this years aspire contest but that slider manipulation like broke my mind.

[@inferno3853]

If you ever played Ming's maps it wouldnt be special for you. He did that like 6 months ago

[@chari6471]

i adore these videos they are great but every single time i get super distracted by ur cursor like how to do play with that

[@fish-kj1dg]

chari lmao like dr it’s so bad 😂

[@SevaHacks]

we love pishifat

[@BitCritterSpyro]

Maybe next year, we'll get a shit ton of hold sliders with balls pulse out when ticking, like osu! stream.

[@giydiyeyidgdgugwiddsws]

pishi have you ever considered entering the aspire contest?

[@pishifat]

considering is as far as i've gone

[@carlosdumbratzen6332]

but why only considering?

[@fsq2185]

He is a judge

[@texnonik]

wow , i didnt know that , very cool thank you for information ! So cool glitches , i even dont know what glitch or somethink will found in next year ? What about spinner that is not in middle ( you dont need rotate it in middle but somewhere else example in right up cornere ) . Two streams in one time . Spinner stream ((Slider stream simular to spinner stream )you need speen from left one time then next you need to speen spinner a bit right and so on ) .

[@texnonik]

what about standart mode that is excatually hidden mod :D . what about random placement of cirles and sliders . (( you play first time hit left hit right then mid , but when you play again its middle left and right . ) or possibilities where they can appear ). If you play with hidden its actually plays normal with out mods . ( + same with flashlight mode you can see map )

[@ScubDomino]

texnonik | once one knows how to code that, that'd be possible.

[@car-keys]

that fucking dab

[@qwuzzy]

I didn't even know Evanescent was aspire, even I tried to map something for it back then

[@ArtemisPlaysGamez]

hopefully there are ways to modify spinners to a point you can only spin 1 direction for it to be counted

[@zonthem4997]

i don't even know how this slider distortion work, can someone explain ? (or link a forum or whatever^^) thx

[@fsq2185]

Use sharp anchors, just spam m2 lol

[@shuffler1064]

You also use a bpm of Infinity or 1E-29 in the osu file

[@inferno3853]

Nico Dexlo a red slider point, then scale the slider until it gets distorted

[@MsThegame83]

Do you think that we can make a slider move while he is used ? It would be cool too. Maybe peppy should add more things to do in the editor to create new things, osu would be more fun and attractive.

[@danielyuan9862]

3:25 reminds me of some of the charts on Arcaea where the charters would sometimes add crazy unconventional things like such.

[@danielyuan9862]

Now that I brought up Arcaea, one thing I felt about that game was the creativity of every different chart, which I guess is why I loved that game. Osu, definitely has that potential, since it opens creation to any player in the game, but that also means a lot of maps are going to look regular and standard.

[@stellr.]

I have an idea. Every time a note is clicked, it's a part of a picture, and the video draws a picture when you click something until at the end, you make a cool drawing.

[@inferno3853]

Maliboux thank you :D

[@Shawdooow]

If he next one is in lazer oval spinners will probably get used as the new gimmick

[@damenbuck7570]

Can anyone tell me the black and white skin used at 8:54?

[@Karxy]

It’s a gimmick skin from one of pishi’s maps. Whenever objects are spaced far apart the follow points are a giant white image so you can switch “background” colors without a storyboard. It’s not an full skin yet as far as I know.

[@awesomeboxlord]

do they remove default maps bexause im getting so triggered that they removed dj kk from the osu default maps because that introduced me into old maps and i fucking love that map

[@Alex-kl8oi]

Will you talk about maps used in tournaments or do you think it's a bit too far away from the actual mapping process

[@fractured_soul]

Im surprised you didn t talk about time traveler from knower ? Where you have to olay the notes backwards from how they appear , and a section forces you the heal the health bar and give you 100% score weather you missed notes or not It even force change skin of the game in the level 2 times

[@MandrakeGuy]

this video is 6 years old

[@Y337n3ss]

2:06 that is one way to put it blunt.

[@BiggieChungulus]

And then there's mania.

[@sammygyupsal]

when the winner of aspire comes out, do a video on the gimmicks and how to do them maybe? Also noticed that peppy supported your video :p

[@negativex4739]

Centipede:Hoho u challenging me

[@ExCell3nTCsGoMore]

nice flashbang xD

[@playerchams]

7:25 Dear god, that messes with my mind

[@mulraf]

as many also say; what i dislike about this aspire contest is that people seem to tryhard to much. like they want to make something new or cool-looking so bad that they forget the playability. that's why my vote went to the dab map (think it was tranquil chipmunk?). it was pretty tough and had some cool elements yet it doesn't look totally impossible and very clean in relation to the other maps imho. somber ibis was good. but the end killed it a bit for me. that didn't look clean nor playable to me (while i bet many top players will be able to pass it but you get the message).

[@clixis]

xnor xnor xnor & time traveler have new innovation

[@ThePussinboots1979]

when i realise what kind of video it was "fuck"

[@EasternMetals]

Pishi I love you

[@Shawdooow]

Aspire 4? Well looking into lazer reveals oval spinners and some circles that have ar so low they appear first but are hit last. Oh, and the new hitobject peppy has hinted at (not sure if thats a secret but its not anymore!)

[@Verko_A]

Acid Rain is just gonna be an SB Contest

[@zeagle6466]

what about STREAMS making PICTURES like for example the NUMBER 8

[@Wx6v]

I believe that, too really reach the true potential of the Aspire mapping contest, or osu! mapping in general, we first need to wait for the actual editor to receive some crucial changes. Though I know this wouldn't be rankable, since the idea of Aspire is to get creative and fuck all the rules, some tools for that would be very useful such as the ability to change certain things that define a map in it's timing points rather than just generally. This OD, AR, etc., but most of all, allowing players to change circle size during a map. Simply giving mappers the ability to do that would allow sooo many interesting patterns to be made. Anyway what I mean is, expecting people to get creative should imply giving them the tools for M-A-X-I-M-U-M C-R-E-A-T-I-V-I-T-Y.

[@soaptastesalrightiguess7932]

I think the whole mid map CS change is a rather controversial idea... I am open to it I guess - But, it is a really really really really risky thing to do. And also, the current editor is enough to turn away A LOT of people as is... if we put anymore shiny buttons on it, we could just make it look like a space shuttle with no manual.

[@inferno3853]

Wx6v with a trick, cs changing works in mid of maps. also on osulazer i modified things which allowed me to go past every limit known lol

[@enderninja319]

Inb4 osu!lazer introduces 5 new hit objects

[@wispy9859]

I want that skin at 8:54...but I can't find it. You said Ringating made it, but he has no dedicated forum for that skin/no DL for it. Do you still have the skin?

[@chitoge4321]

good c:

[@uyak0]

this was a big FUCK YOU to the conventional beatmaps

[@itzcrzy3941]

He said the F word *gasp*

[@normalhumanbeing6066]

Fuck

[@zyondevos9923]

there is always room to innovate. IT IS LIKE A BLACK HOLE. IT IS ALWAYS FULL BUT WHEN SOMETHING GOES IN IT MAKES ROOM FOR THAT, THEN IT IS FULL AGAIN. sorry i had caps on. i dont wanna delete it ok.

[@Daelitegamer]

Only thing that's annoying is that some of the maps for aspire this year auto-fail you at the very end which is really annoying if you wanna save a replay of your play. :/ I get that it's a clusterfuck contest but cmon, autofailing is considered real difficulty now? >_>

[@actually_a_sign3954]

How do I make an aspire map? Looking for tutorials

[@mrZocker11]

Isn't osu!lazor coming out soon? wich is opensource. Opensource, a bit programming knowledge and a lot of creativity would make really awesome maps.

[@inferno3853]

Xantimalicious i did try something like that and it was nice. definetly something for aspire #4

[@thenasprings3616]

SO Y O U ARE THE DUDE THAT SAYS "HELLO THERE" IN THE BEGINING OF THE UNSHAKEABLE MAP-

[@WowzackElite]

The dab will go down in history

[@peeps9079]

What about acid rain with the 3d shit

[@GreenyNeko]

Beautiful maps are beautiful. But I hate badly designed maps from a game design point of view :P A mix between standard ranking and aspire that keeps everything in mind is nice. I've seen maps with changing the speed of sliders in songs that have the same tempo and it kills me. Sure "you can read the speed of the slider by the dots" but sometimes you can't see it. Small sliders with multiple repeat arrows are a pain if you play a song for the first time trying to guess when to move on. And streaks with the same distance but different speed confuse the player. Kudos to those who make a map that is beautiful has a clear design and is still difficult.

[@Nerokata]

aleph-0: hold my beer

[@dk.roderos]

first time to hear pishifat to say badword

[@Nyakozame]

Too late but, Storyboard, Glitch sliderballs, and Distorted slider animation in 2018 That's in a year

[@junsean2094]

well they actually did it, they moved on to *storyboard*, which is both cool and.. a bit hard to hit.

[@Deastrisk]

They moved back to sliders now

[@egominer5624]

Aspire is playable !

[@perfox7395]

you sound so self-conscious of your voice, and naisely.

[@lelcetz7628]

aspire i mean tewi 2b simulator jesus fuck i mean it started ok and then turned into "look at mai kewl sliders" after monstrata

[@Nyakozame]

-aspire- storyboard contest 2018 xd

[@Wee-Ah-Boo]

Watching this after the whole aspire 2018 just makes me sad :

[@vlusky_husky]

Aspire V looks promising though

[@anomakura5723]

@@vlusky_husky xnor xnor xnor

[@warpromo6636]

How was the slider distortion done? Was it just the background?

[@Deastrisk]

Super late but scale it until it gets to big

[@TRETheFox]

Can you give me a osu skin link?

[@THORWAVE]

aspire 5 will make your pen levitate in the air or mouse lol

[@srdjanmihajlovic6956]

What mic are you using?

[@IridiumOG]

Aspire to Inspire new mappers.

[@0x84f]

hi pishi

[@antoniogamingyt2791]

Skin link please

[@Josh-wp5tm]

8:54 what skin is that

[@ibrab00]

How do you move so fluidly?

[@frousti3149]

whats the first skin

[@unkosu]

2:37 me me me

[@frostwich198]

unko hi unko

[@frost-fg8yu]

first pishifat video with swearing

[@nzuria8135]

Anyone else think that the length of this year's song is part of the challenge? Just me?

[@MrMenda12]

Ambie Chan not only the length, the song isnt was atractive as Transform, in fact, it is boring. Being able to listen to that over and over again is a miracle.

[@nzuria8135]

Manuel Mirallas I kinda just tune out the song and watch the maps, lol.

[@kc1560]

I luv ur ASMRic voice

[@danielyuan9862]

I feel like aspire needs to occur less often. I think that is because the purpose of aspire is to enlighten/inspire new ideas into the osu! community, and if that is done too often, then people might not have enough time to really create ideas. In my opinion, aspire is essential to keep osu! gameplay alive, and it may be the biggest factor of osu!'s evolution, if done correctly.

[@krobara]

what is the skin @ 0:05?

[@charlesbarkley1319]

AAAAAAAAA UR VOICE