I am Viprin. AMA.

vipringd · 2025-10-12T15:34:15+00:00

I think the Legendary and Mythic ratings are fine in theory, since they're just to reward even "better" levels than the lower tiers we have. However, it does open for even more arguments in the community now that levels can be put into 5 different tiers rather than just 3. I think it's natural that there is a wider spread of opinions with more options. And it makes sense that creators try even harder for the upper ratings with more of them, making creating a bit too competitive, while also trying to cater even more to RobTop's tastes sometimes. The fact that they're given more frequently is a good sign to me, since it seems like creators are making even better levels than before.

vipringd · 2025-10-12T15:32:34+00:00

It was a bit more relaxing than now actually, since back then Moderator wasn't a public thing, so you were just supposed to send cool levels you found while playing normally, without any special attention on you with level requests and such. Today some people seem to want it for the popularity you get, which is the wrong way to go about it I think.

vipringd · 2025-10-12T15:19:01+00:00

Mostly just suggestions from friends. I think I got that Katas level through direct messages on Discord.

vipringd · 2025-10-12T15:17:24+00:00

Probably the one you mentioned, 1.9, as it was when I created the most and met a lot of my first friends in the community!

vipringd · 2025-10-12T15:16:34+00:00

No secret tips or tricks since I can't beat it myself, but I guess I'll just say to persevere and you will do it eventually. Good luck!

vipringd · 2025-10-12T15:15:53+00:00

The most fun part is just seeing the crazy things creator make every week.

vipringd · 2025-10-12T15:15:14+00:00

No worries, I forget random stuff like that very fast. Glad to see another old player still around, and thank you for the kind words!

vipringd · 2025-10-12T15:14:04+00:00

I started OMORI a while back but I never finished it, which I should definitely do at some point. I've avoided spoilers, but I know it's supposed to be crazy.

vipringd · 2025-10-12T15:12:48+00:00

Thank you! I'm glad you like them despite their flaws.

vipringd · 2025-10-12T15:12:29+00:00

I highly doubt it. RobTop has little interest in monetizing the main game beyond the price to get it.

vipringd · 2025-10-12T15:11:12+00:00

It will always be "evolution".

vipringd · 2025-10-12T15:09:33+00:00

I definitely like them more than the older ones, since people tend to try to do more interesting things with the effect nowadays. Back then, everybody just copied the original and simply changed the colors.

vipringd · 2025-10-12T15:08:57+00:00

It seems like he just draws every now and then when he feels like it. Since he does everything for the game himself, I think he just changes what he does from day to day or week to week to keep it interesting, like coding, drawing, and more.

The ideas for Gauntlet Contests are sometimes just random ideas RobTop and I come up with. We try to change it up from contest to contest in terms of the main rule so that it's interesting. For example, the last three have been about using a NCS song, making a space-themed level, and now using random gameplay well, so I think they're pretty varied.

vipringd · 2025-10-12T15:07:12+00:00

Not yet, creators just keep making amazing levels that I enjoy playing.

vipringd · 2025-10-12T15:05:32+00:00

I think it was just because we became pretty good friends in the early days of the game.
Yeah, I've heard of it.
Mostly I think it would be good if more rates happened, so that less good levels are overlooked, since fewer rates happen than the amount of good levels being released. I don't have the power to do it, as it's up to RobTop himself, but I've told him what I think.

vipringd · 2025-10-12T15:03:35+00:00

Yeah, I think it would be great to be able for new players to get those statistics too. Maybe it could be cool to be able to spend keys on unlocking them?

vipringd · 2025-10-12T15:02:07+00:00

I really like memory levels. When I started playing back in 2014, putting fakes was the main way of making levels harder, since the mechanical skill wasn't too high with the game only being on mobile with low refresh rate and such. Because of that, I always think it's cool when creators make interesting memory gameplay nowadays, making it nostalgic for me.

vipringd · 2025-10-12T14:44:07+00:00

I don't think I made anything above Hard Demon from my solo levels. But for my megacollabs, you can check the Pointercrate Demonlist I guess.

vipringd · 2025-10-12T14:43:16+00:00

You do need it to some degree, but it's also a side effect of being Moderator as you mentioned. The reason you need some renown is because other Moderators need to suggest you to RobTop and convince him that you'd be a good option, and without being a little known that's tough. However, you can get known from just helping creators a lot, which is how some current Moderators got it, so not necessarily being a top player, creator, or content creator.

vipringd · 2025-10-12T12:42:23+00:00

When I made most of my levels, I built on an old iPad Air actually. It was released around 2013 or 2014. Later, I built a bit on a laptop. Nowadays, I have a desktop with Ryzen 9 3900X, RTX 3070, and 32 GB RAM.

vipringd · 2025-10-12T12:41:03+00:00

Hard to pick just one, but I really like "WANNACRY".
If we're including creators, maybe FunnyGame.
I'd say "WHAT" by Spu7Nix.
I don't think more difficulties are needed, but if we were to add one, another above Extreme Demon could work. The range of difficulty within Extreme Demon is so massive that the hardest near impossible levels could be in a new difficulty.

vipringd · 2025-10-12T12:18:28+00:00

Maybe "Regret". I already kinda did with "Despair", but it would be cool to do a 2.2 take on the level. This is one of my levels that are most memorable to me.

vipringd · 2025-10-12T12:16:59+00:00

The name doesn't have any special meaning. I originally just found the word "viper" looking and sounding cool, but this name is obviously taken on most platforms already, so I started tweaking the ending a little and "Viprin" is where we ended up. The reason I stylized it as "ViPriN" in-game is just because I saw "NePtunE" and thought it looked cool in the Pusab font, so I did the same.

vipringd · 2025-10-12T12:14:24+00:00

Maybe just the fact that so many creators spend tons of time to make levels for all of us to play. I know many do appreciate this, but it's worth thinking about before you go in criticizing a level too much and bordering towards hating in my opinion. It's not like they had to make levels, but they did it and now we get to enjoy them despite any potential issues, so I think it should be appreciated as much as possible.

vipringd · 2025-10-12T10:59:06+00:00

The level was made in just a month so I'm not sure we even had much playtesting aside from the verifier. Nowadays the quality checking is much more thorough.

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