But then the game wouldn't have a storyline! That portion of the game was less about trying to make a statement, and more about satire than anything, really.

I sort of realize that I blew things way out of proportion. Much of this was to comedic effect, as well as having, you know, a storyline. Just remember that I was also making fun of myself in the process (wanting the antispam block removed immediately, etc. etc.).

The control switching thing was based off of this and this except taken to an extreme. Switching movement systems is actually a feature that comes with MMF2 - you define one or more movements and you can switch between them at any time through the use of events. I actually used it in a few other places as well (Mavis' head switching from Path to Bouncing Ball). I suspect Clickteam added it in for stuff like Platform Movement objects switching to Paths and back without having to create/destroy secondary objects. Early Sonic fangames did this sort of thing a lot in order to EG. fake loop movement.

STRONG MAN wasn't in this because I could only have four slots due to time constraints, and I chose Thunder Dragon Man for the fourth slot because I had recently gone on a nostalgic Thunder Dragon gaming binge (fun fact: Gundam Theme Song Zone is inspired by the fact that his Web 1.0 site, Bowser Technologies, used an embedded MIDI of Just Communication). I'd actually like to see how many other styles I can copy (or at least try to), so I may consider it in the future.

About scrolling: I once made a KnP scrolling engine around the age of roughly 12 years (I think). Many years later, I reused the same engine to create this, my third game for this site. It's clearly rough around the edges, and its code is sloppy and there are a few mistakes and unnecessary things in there (such as using alterable values to store initial coordinates when that isn't even necessary). It also breaks with non-player objects using built-in movement - you can see a lazy hack I made to get the Space Viking's shots to scroll vertically, and in hindsight I should have propagated that improvement to the rest of the engine, but oh well. It also couldn't handle going left or going too far up after going down due to automatic object deletion. On the bright side, it is lean in terms of number of events used, and a simple and elegant method of doing scrolling. It's also relatively smooth save for the occasional pop-up glitches and wall climbing exploit (which I made fun of in I Cheated, so yes, that portion of the game is also me making fun of myself).

Still, it's heaps better than the scrolling in Sonic: The Fast Revelation, which I consider to be the worst implementation of scrolling in Klik & Play ever. Go and open the game and look in the Event Editor. He literally created hundreds of events to describe every possible movement direction and player state and created special cases just for each of these, for absolutely no reason, and it only made the movement act wonky during scrolling.

I had been meaning to create a better scrolling engine, but I tinkered around with Klik & Play for a bit and then sort of lost interest. At this point I'm feeling like I should just let you do it. If you can manage to get smooth, four-way scrolling that is friendly with the built-in movements (and have it lean enough that gameplay stuff won't go over the invisible event limit), then you will be totally awesome.

this is just mind blowing and i cant believe i even managed to beat it. in a lot of situations i was like FFFF. this trainwreck is certainly a glorious one and i was impressed how long it is.