Freeka
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updated 1 year ago
Art was made by idkpixel
Thanks so much for commissioning me, my friend! It was such a blast to work on!
Let me start this by saying I don’t golden maps often. It is a skillset that stresses me out whenever I take time to do it. Not to say that there’s anything wrong with goldeners: I genuinely respect their time and effort in doing something so difficult. It’s just I much prefer playing through a map one and done, play the next one, and work in projects in between.
This map, however, I genuinely enjoyed so much that I wanted the stat. And lo and behold, now I have a tier 4 to my name!
I feel like this map is one of those maps that genuinely hits all the right spots in what I enjoy in a Celeste map, and that’s for a multitude of reasons. For one, the gameplay is so flowy and so creative, exploring each mechanic to its very core, and making you rethink on how you use them. Of course Ricky is the type of person that knows how to do this, but still, it impresses me the stuff that he does in this game.
That also applies to the visuals, which of course being about a musician’s grove (or at least that’s what I gather of it, haven’t played Silksong don’t kill me) I love the vibes so much. The decals are beautiful, the glow is astounding, it all fits together so comfily. I especially love the in between sections as well, it helps with the immersion a lot.
And of course the music is what makes this map so special, because it is from my favorite (ex) musician in the Celeste community, TyKim. His music is easily my favorites in the whole community, as I’ve listened to each song that he’s made at least a dozen times (especially Climate Crisis). This is his sort of farewell to the community, as he’s planning on putting down the torch, and I have to thank him again for all that he’s done. He’s genuinely a huge inspiration for the style I want to create, and I wouldn’t be so passionate about music in this community if it weren’t for him.
This fact is especially highlighted in the end when I encountered the monument that read:
— IN MEMORY OF —
The one who strung a note
that struck the world,
and the world kept singing
after its singer ended.
This really did hit hard for me especially, dunno why. I mean, there’s a lot of reasons why, sure, but it just summed up a lot of emotional stuff for me, and this world building aspect too, it’s just too much to describe how much this one singular thing skyrocketed my opinion of this map to one of the greatest things ever.
I genuinely thank Ricky for making this and TyKim for the music, you both are gifts to this world. Thank you to Chelito for the thumbnail, too!!!
Keep being awesome, guys!
The mappers this year were Appels, BossSauce, Crispybag, Freeka, Tear_ and tobyaaa. The map was raced live on Fangame Marathon by dragonned, issy, ParrotDash and viddie. Check out the run on the Fangame Marathon youtube channel! Additional shoutouts go out to Spooooky, who came in clutch with asset and deco help, Freeka for composing the whole soundtrack, and dewie for the beautiful endscreen. Thanks a bunch!
This year we decided to go for a different style of map from previous years, instead focusing more on open-endedness and macrorouting, rather than the usual techspam style. I think it ended up making for a very unique and interesting map!
The mappers this year were Appels, BossSauce, Crispybag, Freeka, Tear_ and tobyaaa. The map was raced live on Fangame Marathon by dragonned, issy, ParrotDash and viddie. Check out the run on the Fangame Marathon youtube channel! Additional shoutouts go out to Spooooky, who came in clutch with asset and deco help, Freeka for composing the whole soundtrack, and dewie for the beautiful endscreen. Thanks a bunch!
This year we decided to go for a different style of map from previous years, instead focusing more on open-endedness and macrorouting, rather than the usual techspam style. I think it ended up making for a very unique and interesting map!
The mappers this year were Appels, BossSauce, Crispybag, Freeka, Tear_ and tobyaaa. The map was raced live on Fangame Marathon by dragonned, issy, ParrotDash and viddie. Check out the run on the Fangame Marathon youtube channel! Additional shoutouts go out to Spooooky, who came in clutch with asset and deco help, Freeka for composing the whole soundtrack, and dewie for the beautiful endscreen. Thanks a bunch!
This year we decided to go for a different style of map from previous years, instead focusing more on open-endedness and macrorouting, rather than the usual techspam style. I think it ended up making for a very unique and interesting map!
The mappers this year were Appels, BossSauce, Crispybag, Freeka, Tear_ and tobyaaa. The map was raced live on Fangame Marathon by dragonned, issy, ParrotDash and viddie. Check out the run on the Fangame Marathon youtube channel! Additional shoutouts go out to Spooooky, who came in clutch with asset and deco help, Freeka for composing the whole soundtrack, and dewie for the beautiful endscreen. Thanks a bunch!
This year we decided to go for a different style of map from previous years, instead focusing more on open-endedness and macrorouting, rather than the usual techspam style. I think it ended up making for a very unique and interesting map!
Here's to (hopefully) making more maps in the future!


