The Two Titans of Fancy Pants Speedrunning

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 KZbin 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

[@DEDERTEEE]

Go fast, go fancy!

[@rileysmith2089]

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.

[@ThaRixer]

Thanks for having me on! Incredible stuff maximum. Outdid yourself

[@klimmesil9585]

I love how dha is always swearing and still unhappy while luciousness is yelling LETS GOOOOO the whole time

[@sudo_music]

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 :)

[@kasai1575]

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.

[@ZantierTasa]

1:18:53

[@PatrickDavis28]

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.

[@invertedmind8937]

the movement in this game just looks so cool despite being so simple

[@Quicksilvir]

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.

[@Arvidus89]

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).

[@AxelVenturatheboss]

This dude casually created one of my favorite childhood games what a legend

[@LukePlays17]

29:39

[@obi-wankenoli6073]

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

[@zephyr4779]

The nostalgia, man! I completely forgot this game existed! The music is hitting me in the feels!

[@Luciousness]

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.

[@FuzzyJeffTheory]

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

[@pastaomelette]

1:11:59

[@NorXor]

can’t believe the speedrunning history of this game was started by the LEGEND

[@Amoongus]

I love when people make things happen in a montage to the beat of the music like it is done at