controit?
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-- SPOILERS FOR THE AF1TBS CONTROIT TWIST (that has not been in the game since 3.0 but will be readded in the future) --
The details for the following are all fuzzy, and I can't confirm with complete accuracy that this is exactly how things went down. It's the most logical order I could fit all the pieces I've managed to gather in.
After I first played AF2 in 2020 I started writing some (terrible) fanfics for it in a notebook (which I still have). I wrote essentially all 42 timeloops of AF1 (though most of them were short stories that sucked). Out of all of these stories, one that stood out to me was my AF1.5, which served the purpose of giving context for my AF3.
Within this AF1.5, there was an area called the "Elemental Citypoint" (i was 11) that was something of a hub between dimensions. There was also a realm within it known as the "Realm of the Mind's Eye". I don't want to get deep into what these are for a few reasons that I'll get into.
On March 15th, 2022, I had some sort of cold and thus was absent from school that day. With this time I had being home, I decided to start a new project named "Adventure Forward: Feathered Ascent" (AF:FA) which had the goal of being a fanmade AF1.5. This is unrelated to the Elemental Citypoint AF1.5, as that felt unrealistic to make.
The general plot of this game involved you playing as SS1 in loop 42 after beating Stratosfear. SS1 has been told by a mysterious entity by the name of "Naqual" that there is one more star they can obtain past Shadows in the Sky, this star is known as the "Feathered Star" (or something like that, I can't actually find the name) and will allow them to grow more powerful than any other entity within the universe.
World 1 of the game was slated to take place in the skies above Maytown, with parts of Everi (VR was canon in this) beginning to ascend to the heavens. The idea was that every world would get higher and higher in altitude, until the last world was so close to space that you could see the atmosphere below you, gravity would be lowered there.
World 1 was going to use Light Waves as a mechanic, which pull you upwards in a weird curvy way. I took a free model of a fan and just took the script from it, and it worked somehow (interestingly I later found out that the script in the fan was made for AF3:COS).
Throughout the game you would collect Orbs of darkness which furthered your transformation into Stratosfear, granting you new powers such as double jumping. All of this would culminate in a final sequence where being so close to the Feathered Star causes you to be bathed in light essence, which the Stratosfear part of you hates, and thus you fully transform to get away from it. This would then start AF2 somehow (I'm sure I figured out how, I've just forgotten).
In reality: I only made like 5 jumps and 2 mechanics and then stopped working on it entirely. You can play it here (I eventually added an immersive ad portal to figure out what the fuck those did):
Coming if I ever finish it, running some ad tests
Anyways, I went to look at AF1 as a reference for this project and found out that DX was actually just uncopylocked! So, I abandoned FA really quickly, and began work on "Adventure Forward 1: Deluxe: Tweaked" which promised to change AF1 in slight ways to enhance the experience (think Irmgy's Starstruck Calamity but with less changes).
...I lost interest in it in under a day.
...I got a premium payout.
I have images now! Everything from here is significantly more documented.
Anyways, I realized that if I was to make more robux from it, I would have to add new content! So, I added the first Blue Star. And then I added more. And more.
Eventually I decided to give the game it's first major content update: Mt. Stratosfear! A new postgame challenge! This died in under a week (it eventually got turned into Magmatic Furnace if you'll believe me).
But more people were starting to play the game, so I had to add some sort of postgame! And so I began on a new area called The Archives.
So this area is sort of a hub between dimensions, like some sort of... Wait this is just Elemental Citypoint.
The Archives is actually just a weird fucked up version of my old AF1.5 fanfic. But Controit? Controit is the most interesting part of it all.
Remember Naqual from AF:FA? They were set to introduce you to The Archives! You may notice they look like the judgement hall guy from AF1DX, well, you see, before I started work on The Archives there was actually just a clone of the judgement hall guy in there who talked about how wacky it was that you got max stars. So, I just recolored them in an attempt to make it look like foreshadowing.
But as I got closer to finishing Archives Pt1, I realized that having an entity like Naqual didn't really make much sense, so I figured out a solution.
Wait a minute, how did I come up with the name Controit? Well, I had an idea for a shocking new twist to include in The Archives...
Controit was going to be a Voixer pre-point! Wait... What? How can a pre-point be a point? What? I didn't have answers to these questions, but it'd just be so damn cool.
The general idea was that Controit was meant to parallel SS1 in a way, which would explain why Voixer and Stratosfear have such similar symbols. The name Controit is derived from "Control" and "Point" for this reason, as Celesteal has control over Voixer.
So I released 2.0 with Controit! And people loved it! The Archives were so cool at the time, and people were just starved for AF content in general. But what this meant was that... I had to make the next part!
It is now time for the embarrassing part of this story which I have glossed over in the past. It's finally time to discover what exactly Light of the Sky was.
I never actually planned what Part 2 of the Archives really would be. I mean I had ideas, such as Controit bombing the Archives (I actually built some of this lol), but no real plans. Originally there was going to be a Controit bossfight, but that ended up not really working well for like 20 different reasons. Eventually I decided to reuse my plan from AF:FA and create a new area known as Light of the Sky. However, this name was not new.
The name of the expansion was actually originally Light of the Sky, it was meant to be a polar opposite of Shadows in the Sky. It should be noted this name was just a thing I told people to make them believe I was working on the expansion when I was actually just deeply confused as to what it'd be.
If the first 6 archives were the worlds, it'd make sense for the 7th one to be Shadows in the Sky (which later got added as Dream Archive), but I wanted to try doing a subversion by making a level based around AF:FA. And that is what I did.
It used the aformentioned wind free model as it's main mechanic, and the level itself also kind of sucked (it was like a minute long). And it ended with a ruined house structure and a prerecorded message from Controit where they state they're being used as... an experiment with nothingness? This was as far as the Voixer confirmation has ever gone ingame, so why am I treating it like it's not a major twist? We'll get into that.
I've played the piano for atleast 8 years now, and the trombone for atleast 6, this is to say I'm a fairly musical person. So, it felt natural that for the final area in the game I should compose a song! So I did this, I composed a minute-long song called Light of the Sky on my keyboard and it kind of sucked but it also wasn't that bad. The issue came with exporting it to my PC to add it to Roblox, long story short: my keyboard didn't support that (shoutout to my dad for helping me try to figure it out for like 5 hours though). So that failed... But... I had already told people in game that I made a song for the next update, and I couldn't back out now. So I improvised, and by that I mean I used Scratch.
I had actually already made some fairly simple songs for Scratch games before, so I felt like I'd be able to do it. I spent a few hours and transcribed it to Scratch, cutting it to a 30 second loop because I got tired and Scratch was starting to lag. I then added this to Light of the Sky, and all felt good. I was proud of myself, even.
Release day came, and I added an admin thing a few hours before release so I could blast TacoBot3000 to everyone in the server. I decided that those who were there hours early should get a present, so I used the admin to play the new song early for them.
I thought, oh, well maybe they just don't know what to say but they like it! I mean I liked it; I was proud! So I used the admin thing to make an anonymous poll on how they felt about the song.
I don't remember the results, but I remember not liking them. So I made another poll, it went something like "Should I remove the song before release and find a replacement?" I believe the votes were around 4-2 in favor of removing it.
But I was proud! It was my song! My dad liked it! So, I barely looked for a replacement, said I couldn't find one, and kept it in the game.
And then release came. I'm pretty certain the reaction wasn't as bad as I remember it being, but I do remember at least 3-4 people absolutely HATING the new level. I vividly remember someone saying they didn't like the Voixer reveal (which I had to spell out to people after they beat the level because I made it super fucking vague), to which I said I based it on fanfics I made. They said, as I remember it, "Now why would you do that?" And that shit crushed me. People were acting nice about the song, but I could tell that it was only because they knew I was proud of it. It got to me so bad that I ended up shutting down the server to replace the song with the Woodwind Secret theme... And that stayed the theme of Light of the Sky... For almost a year.
I denied the existence of the song later, and most people either forgot about it or weren't there because I've yet to meet someone who remembers it (or maybe I have and they're lying). Infact, this has gotten to me a little still, so I will not be sharing it even though I still have its files.
People started saying Light of the Sky was actually one of the best areas in the game, but I refused to believe it. This is why in Archives Pt4 I completely remade the entire thing.
Wait a minute... Pt4? But only 3 were planned? Well, you see. This release got to me so badly that I actually planned out an entire sequel to The Archives (pt4-6, later becoming pt4-7) just to do damage control over how much I hated the ending.
Thomas initially posed the question of "controit?" And I feel a need to explain why I feel this answers that question.
Controit and the Archives are inherently intertwined from a larger perspective of the game, which is to say, I think that one cannot understand Controit without understanding The Archives. I don't want to go very deep into their lore because pt6-7 (god fucking damn it) are still not out. Maybe someone will remind me once they're done and I'll get to say more about their story.
In all, Controit was a character made a few days before a release to fix something that didn't really make sense, and the only reason their story got extended was because I felt embarrassed about a shitty update. And yet despite all of this, I like Controit. The circumstances of the Archives story let me do some interesting things with them in pt4-7, and I think you'll see what I mean by that.
PS: I said I'd mention the wind free model again so... It actually just ran every single frame constantly and tried to spin fan blades that weren't there. This was pretty laggy.
PPS: I would rather die than make another song for TBS.
PPPS: If you happen to be one of the people who criticized Light of the Sky on release... Thank you! Yeah, it kind of hurt, but without you I don't think I'd have continued the Archives and I'm really glad that I did!
PPPPS: hi thomas hi!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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