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BFDI: Branches

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Easter Egg#

oldtitle.mp3#

Unused track in v0.1. Reminiscent of music from Sonic the Hedgehog.

This was later added as an Easter Egg in v0.2 and it has a low chance of appearing.

Unused Images#

Blue Golf Ball#

There's an image of a blue golf ball stored at "character5/blue_golf_ball.png" alongside the other characters in "assets/images/characters", as an Easter egg for data miners.

(Source: 1)

updating.png#

A crudely drawn Firey to the right of a download icon. To the left is a smile, and at the top it says "Updating".

boss.png#

A photo of a cat edited to have an egg-shaped body and stubby limbs. This is also an easter egg for data miners.

Firey Character Select Sprites#

An unused animation of Firey raising up his arms, it was originally for the level select, but this was scrapped in favor of the final.

Godot_v4.1.1-stable_win64_owuv9lVe9b.png#

This is another unused level select concept, similar to Super Mario Advance's game select menu, but this was scrapped in favor of the final.

shadowcast.png#

A sprite of the Super Mario Bros Logo with text "Shadowcast" under it, this is a reference to a level editing game that Barfy (one of the members of Team Branches) had previously made.

Hidden Tiles#

Test Tile#

It's a purple and black checkerboard; it's mainly just a placeholder tile.

slightly bigger gear requested by nacho because his level would get nerfed#

A red gear with a slightly higher hitbox, this was added, as the name suggest, it's because GDNacho's level was getting nerfed as a result of an update.

Phirey#

A crudely drawn sprite of Firey raising his arm up, this tile was added as a joke back when the game was in development.

Graze Spike Block#

Fg70.png Fg71.png

Blue and red spikes, this tile was added in order to perform the "Spike Graze" glitch, which was fixed in v0.1.6.2.

Unused Scenes/Areas#

To do:
Scenes (test, test2, debug, background editor, mobile controls, character menu)

World Map#

There's an unused world map within the game.

Unused world map

Music Visualizers#

The game contains unused scenes of music visualizers (Visualizer and Visualizer2.tscn) for The Big Red Button and Results Are In!.

In v0.1.2, the following text was added to Visualizer.tscn:

hi dataminer.
this scene is used for my visualizer of The Big Red
Button on youtube. here's the link lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-l2ILEAdM5w

Early Levels#

Please elaborate.
Having more detail is always a good thing.

The level designers of BFDI Branches (Meester Tweester, Barfy, and YoshiStudios) have uploaded early versions of some levels to the online level-sharing feature.

The revisions of Laying Down the Roots and Cloudy Cliffs are provided below:

Download Branches Level Revisions

File: Branches_Level_Revisions.zip (845 kiB) (info)

References#


  1. https://teambranches.itch.io/bfdi-branches↩︎
  2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZUTXt6fz_8↩︎