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Introduction Flip Knight is a 2d Metroidvania platformer that follows the protagonist, Flip Knight, with a similar style of gameplay to VVVVVV. Flip Knight was made by st33d, released on 12/24/2020. It was created on a fantasy console called PICO-8

Gameplay Flip Knight is a Metroidvania with the gravity switch mechanic from VVVVVV, but while you switch gravity, a sword appears in the direction you travel, which can kill enemies while changing gravity. However, you also can use the gravity switch for a lot more. For example, you can use the sword to destroy breakable blocks or use the sword to activate a switch block that changes the gravity of special blocks and enemies. There are also bouncy platforms that bounce you either up or down depending on where you hit it from.

Development The first showing of Flip Knight was on December 5th, which showed the flip mechanic from VVVVVV (without the sword), collision, and moving blocks which later became the enemies. And for the first 4 days, st33d was adding in the mechanics that are currently in the game. A bit after the first 4 days, on December 12th the first level in the game was created and from that point onwards full focus was put on building the map and some other features, like adding a heat map that allowed enemies to track the player and adding in more enemies. After a month, it was released on December 25th(all info for the development of this game is from st33d's development tweets of the game which is in external links/references)

Conclusion Flip Knight is a Metroidvania that is not popular but is worth discussing with its interesting mechanics and level design.

external links/refrences Flip Knight st33d's development tweets