Ahkong's Amorphous+ Guides

http://ahkong.net/amorphous-awards/
http://ahkong.net/amorphous-rewards/
http://ahkong.net/amorphous-bestiary/
http://ahkong.net/amorphous-razor-queen/
http://ahkong.net/amorphous-deaths/
http://ahkong.net/amorphous-cheats/

All Amorphous Awards Flavourtext, cheatsheet, and 50% run guide

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rHVYO6FXIfhRN8_l72tqI-2PBW8OecD6q7dcZKD_xwg/edit?usp=sharing

All Bad Ends (Correct)

There was some confusion as to how many "bad ends" there are, or how exactly to get some of them, so I found out. There are in fact 17 unique bad ends listed below, with the correct name used in the game code (and savefile!) in quotes.  

Some have more than one cause and will be written cause1, cause2, ...

"Mangled" - Biter.  
"Melted" - Touch Meltie acid.  
"Impaled" - Sharp.  
"Squashed" - Grinder.  
"Chowed" - Fuzzle.  
"Speared" - Impaled by Gray lance.  
"Burned" - Fire.  
"Shattered" - Bumped while frozen.  
"Absorbed" - Touch Oozle, Touch Amalgam, Touch Gray(When not hard or using lance).  
"Disintigrated" - Void eater beam.  
"Gibbed" - Touch Razor Queen tail, Inside Instant wall, any explosion (void eater wave, grenade, torchie, ...).  
"Hooked" - Horror hooks, Razor Larvae spikes (The one that explodes when you get close).  
"Stapled" - Razor Quill (The spike projectiles that carry you off screen).  
"Split" - Razor Mite (The one that digs).  
"Splattered" - Touch horror (While complete).  
"Piked" - Razor Hedgehog (Thrown spike ball, even if it lands on top of you).  
"Sliced" - Any queen or razor queen claw, Horror discs, Saw Drone (50% chance of decapitation/bisection animation).

All glooples. How to kill, Effects, Points (Kongregate)

Exploits 101

__**Terminology**__
RMB - right mouse button
click - left mouse button

Upon clicking RMB inside the game window we open a context menu with several options, we are mainly interested in the following three:

PLAY
FORWARD
BACK

(note that FORWARD and BACK can be selected quickly by pressing the "f" or "b" key after RMB)

__**Practice Spawning**__
Allows any gloople to be spawned on command, they will give score and awards as normal.

- Select gloople(s) in practice mode  
- click "Go Practice"  
- BACK  
- click single nest / bounty run  
- FORWARD  
- click the loading screen  
- *quickly* click the Difficulty Ramp / Nest Size button  
(You may want to wait for the glooples to appear before the final step but be warned that before the button is clicked some events such as being bumped or the queen lunging can break the game and require a restart.)

__**Nest Skip**__  
- restart the game  
- click single nest  
- FORWARD
- click a Nest Size
(The nest will be cleared after a short wait, gives the badass award)

__**Fast Respawn**__  
- die  
- *quickly* BACK then click  
(Resets nest time and score. Can cause crashes depending on what is present on screen. Practice spawn an oozle on slow bounty run and repeatedly run into it using this glitch for fast death farming)

__**Razor Queen After Reset**__  
- have a razor queen on screen outside practice
- pause
- PLAY two times
- click the options menu (invisible, lower right)
- reset the file
- FORWARD
- click then unpause
- die quickly and rematch to add to bestiary
(For speedrun purposes there are three main options.
1: as above, then practice spawn razor queens  
2: before the pause and reset deal 4 damage, kill the razor queen after the reset in one swing.
3: prepare as in 2, but after the reset die, wait for the "You were killed..." menu to appear, perform a "fast respawn" then kill the razor queen in one hit. *Then* if you didn't crash the game click the "Rematch" button then BACK, another razor queen will spawn adding it to the bestiary.)

__**Extra Spawning**__
- practice spawn as usual with glooples that have non zero spawnrate (anything except razor queen, queen, amalgam, horror, void eater, gray)  
- start bounty run (best seen on fast)
- the glooples will be actively spawning from the start. However as time passes that same gloople is added to the spawn list again, resulting in approximately double the amount of spawns for that type.
(The effect is immediately visible with greens, oozles can continue spawning due to having a spawnrate for use in practice mode. Hardcore mode is ignored when using practice spawning.)

I've only included glitches that have some practical use, there are lots of weird things that happen in this game and aren't helpful at all.
If you have any new exploits to include just hit me up.

How to defeat the Razor Queen (Boxland)

How to fight the Red Queen

Here is a document describing how to fight the Red Queen with the default sword: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sttErg7DTb2yHA6K2GPYwC4qixHWehRD/view?usp=sharing

The guide goes through the basics first. Then it looks at what we have discovered from looking at the code and how this can be applied to create a better, but more complex, strategy. 


Here is a guide for fighting the Red Queen with the Razor Glaive: https://youtu.be/kO8kMjsHjac

Razor Queen After Reset Tutorial

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmZFvPuSWXQ

Reducing randomness in Amorphous+

As you get better in Amorphous, you will die less from mistakes. In order to improve further, you will eventually have to take steps to avoid deaths caused by randomness. Here is a list of some things that can be done.

# 1: Avoid the edges

To avoid Unfortunate events, you should try to stay in the centre of the screen. Notice that the screen is more wide than it is tall, so you have more space to work with horizontally than vertically.

When pressured, you may have to move towards the edge. You can also benefit from edge-despawning enemies, but ideally you should avoid the edges. A new player will often benefit from going to the border, but as you improve you should prioritize staying away from it. As you get better at predicting the enemies, you will also be able to do smaller dodges that allow you to keep killing without moving as much.

Additionally, when you must be close to the edge, it is preferable to not swing your sword. You are already vulnerable, and standing still doesn’t help. And if you must swing your sword, it’s better if you angle it towards the edge, as you might catch an unexpected biter.

Concrete examples:

- If you are comfortable with whacking sharps in specific directions, and how to kill sharps consistently, then there is little need to go out of your way and despawning them. You can use them to kill other glooples, and it doesn’t take much time to kill the sharp itself.
- It is better to kill clutters when they’re to the screen-left or right of you. Then you have more space to work with. It also helps if you move towards the opposite side first, so that you can be in the centre when you kill the clutter.
- Grinders will often force you out of the centre. And going close to the edge to despawn a torchie is easy to justify. In some fights, you just have to do what you have to do.

# 2: Collisions

Collisions are unpredictable. So, when two glooples collide you should not be so close that you cannot react if something bounces your way.

- Green glooples are quite slow, so you just need a little distance when they collide.
- Biters can move quickly, so you need to stay away (or swing) if a biter is about to bounce off something.
- Sharps are larger and tend to bounce more violently. Additionally, sharps get invincibility frames after a collision and can move right through your sword. The same goes for fuzzles.
- Both biters and fuzzles can create violent collisions if they are jumping. Take care if two biters/fuzzles jump towards the same point, or onto a sharp.

Your sword can sometimes whack a sharp towards yourself, but this has little randomness. Take care to not swing at a sharp with the left-hand side of your sword arc.

# 3: Splats

Sometimes, a stickie/inkie/meltie/frostie will die and splash onto you. The actual randomness is only two things: the sprite chosen for the splat, and the variance in the angle of the splat. This is not much randomness!

The main problem with splats is when the meltie dies because of another gloople. Because of this, you have to watch the stickies, melties, etc., and make distance if they’re about to die. Easier said than done!

As with sharps, the angle of the splat if mostly determined by what part of the sword arc hits it. Do not swing your sword if there is a meltie in the left-hand part of your sword arc.

# 4: Gloople-specific behaviour

- Glooples that have been frozen will move in a random direction after thawing. The exceptions are stickies, melties, and inkies, as they will always move towards the player when they spawn.
- Torchies sometimes don’t extinguish when moving through acid/goop. Apart from this, torchies actually have very little randomness. In order to avoid (most) unexpected explosions, you have to

  I. Avoid the edges

 II. Notice the torchie as soon as it spawns

III. Make the torchie move where you want it to

- The horror sends out teeth at random intervals. Note that the teeth are sent out in the same pattern every time, and one tooth is always sent the way it’s moving. To avoid unexpected teeth, you can move slightly off its line of movement.
- The amalgam can split unexpectedly. With big, slow amalgams you’ll want to stand directly behind it, or maybe even in front.
- The red queen attacks at random intervals. But if you make her dodge once, her next attack will come at a predictable timing (barring interruptions).
- The razor queen shoots quills at random intervals and angles. To avoid impalement, you should stand far away, stand still when possible, and hide behind spikes.

Name	Author
Ahkong's Amorphous+ Guides	mechbees 3 years ago
All Amorphous Awards Flavourtext, cheatsheet, and 50% run guide	mechbees 3 years ago
All Bad Ends (Correct)	AAH7 3 years ago
All glooples. How to kill, Effects, Points (Kongregate)	mechbees 3 years ago
Exploits 101	AAH7 3 years ago
How to defeat the Razor Queen (Boxland)	mechbees 3 years ago
How to fight the Red Queen	Boxland 2 years ago
Razor Queen After Reset Tutorial	AAH7 3 years ago
Reducing randomness in Amorphous+	Boxland 3 months ago