More things about kubus. To get past many early johnny games you have to exploit a glitch where you gain jump height by rapidly changing sizes. Kubus noticed this bug during development and designed the games where it an intentional mechanic to progress. Games like Johnny 7, 22 Garden and Minto Labyrint Ho were especially brutal in terms of design in johnny 7, there is a room where you need extreme rng luck to complete, a room where you follow an extremely slow moving platform to the edge only to realize you've been trolled and the real exit was under the starting platform. Johnny 22 makes you go through a tedious section that requires focus and then jumpscares you. Garden and Minto gameover with one single touch and the enemies move in random directions, sometimes making them impossible to dodge. Kubus strangely decided to make the controls for johnny worse in 24 and beyond, sorta resembling action 52 jumping. Kubus in the very early years commonly posted on an old Frank Zappa Forum and lightly took part in the vampire community. Kubus also once had his own forums. Shortly before kubus's suicide, he had a youtube channel linked with a Google+ account named Jimbo Wizz (after one of his characters) the videos have been lost but some may have been his music videos as well as a series titles going by "I ____ your soul" I think one was "I destroyed your soul" and "I absorbed your soul" Kimberly kubus did many drugs in his life. His wasted driver series showed slight knowledge of effects and types of drugs such as pcp thc mdma lsd lsa, bromo-dragonfly, dmt, salvia, crack etc. Kubus believed that he was the same person of Spartacus. He claimed that the word Sparlatacus was envisioned/hallucinated by him and he took interest in the word years before he ever even heard of Spartacus. Kubus had a particular interest with Mexican culture. He has made multiple references in the works he has made. Johnny 2 plays the song: Pat Boone - Speedy Gonzalez in the background. Another common theme in his works was the holiday of Christmas, generally in the form standard western Christmas culture. He even made an entire Christmas themed album. Johnny 11 plays the song: Apoptygma Berzerk - Love Never Dies Part 2 in the background It is known as another song commonly associated with him. Kubus stated that he traveled to his kubus dimension using the literal oral pain from his nonexistent dental hygeine. Kimberly Kubus was friends with creator Jinxtengu. He is most well known for his game "Revenge of the Sunfish" which gained notoriety when several viral youtubers let's played it. The game had multiple inspirations and ideas from Kubus. Jinx has been developing a sequel, which is said to feature a vast assortment of hidden secrets and messages. The game development unfortunately has been delayed for years, but not stopped.

@ClassicEd

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing, really interesting to read more about the design of things

I'm the author of the King of Good Stuff Examined, which I ended prematurely because Kubus seemed to disapprove of it. One thing about Kubus that is sort of lost to time is that he would frequently tear down his site and delete everything, and then a few months later he'd decide to rebuild it all and ask around his fans (myself included) for games and albums he had lost. Without the small but dedicated fan community, many of the games would've been lost even before his death. He asked me a few times to take down stuff of his that I'd shared on different websites, and even tracked me down when I posted stuff under usernames that he'd have to work hard to connect with me. Also: I've beaten seven or eight of the Johnny games, at the end of most of them, you get rewarded with a photo of Kim, and occasionally some plot exposition.

@kylethesurvivor3874

6 ай бұрын

Why did he take down his site?

@UnwinderH

6 ай бұрын

@@kylethesurvivor3874 He was very paranoid, due to his mental health issues. When he was feeling bad, he'd tear down the site, and even delete everything from his own hard drive. When he was feeling good he'd put it back up again.

@UnwinderH

6 ай бұрын

I didn't get too far before he asked me to stop, those three articles were as far as I got. I think he was mostly paranoid that someone from his real life would see his work and it would get him in trouble. He was pretty open about using drugs and portrayed himself as a pretty creepy guy overall, I could see someone seeing the way he acts in his videos and thinking he was a dangerous person. He did also talk about supernatural entities and stuff that were out to get him, and I don't know how much of that was legitimate paranoia/mental health problems, and how much was his weird sense of humor. @@kylethesurvivor3874

I love this. Didn't know the whole story. Me and my son listen to his amazing works on "Alternative Church Music". Sad to know it ended sadly. Great video as always.

This v ideo felt like going down a rabbit hole, my god. I am not the same person that I was 22 minutes ago. Honestly, it just feels incredibly sad, Kim had extremely obvious mental health issues, he saw things that weren't there, he clearly didn't really take care of himself very well and far, far more. I was genuinely sad when you mentioned that he took his own life, now his works of art are laid barren in a world that will never comprehend them. We will never know what most of these games mean, because he was the only person with a brain capable of understanding them. I hope he rests in peace, after all he's gone through, he deserves at least that much.

@ClassicEd

Жыл бұрын

Man I had no idea what I was getting myself in for, one day I just thought "Hey, I wonder what happened to those weird Johnny games I used to play?" and now here I am. At least his work lives on!

@CrumbleKoek

Жыл бұрын

@@ClassicEd Hell yeah! His legacy will live on forever, as someone who created games uncaring for what anyone thought or said, he truly created what he wanted to create regardless of others' oppinions on it, and that's something that we honestly...Need to see more of. I hope his games inspire future devs, at the very least, they've inspired me

@shape3225

Жыл бұрын

i really disagree with the sentiment you expressed in your last couple sentences. while i don't think there's any ignorance or malice in your viewpoint, i think believing his art can't be comprehended by somebody else (or trying to figure out what "it means") is kind of missing the point

@CrumbleKoek

Жыл бұрын

I simply worded it poorly, I specifically meant, that, the only person who truly understands how, and why all Kimberly's creations were created to be what they are...Is Kimberly, we can try to understand, and speculate, but at the end of the day, none of us will ever truly know what was going through his mind while creating them.

@CrumbleKoek

Жыл бұрын

We can however interpret his art in our own way, and create our own theories, but knowing what specifically he was thinking, or he was trying to achieve, is hard to discern without actually hearing it all from the man himself, which is sadly impossible now.

That was great :) makes me want to learn new things and express myself with no care of what others think

@ClassicEd

Жыл бұрын

I thought that was what you did anyway but cool!

Great video! Kubus' approach of just creating and not caring actually helped me to release some of my games

its absurd you dont even have thousand subs This is such a great production Kubus Forever

I dedicated one month of my life years back to beating every Johnny game. It started as a challenge to do the worst games I have ever seen, and ended with me almost crying when finishing the 36th game from love of them I earned among the way

@ClassicEd

6 ай бұрын

That sounds like a transcendent accomplishment

Thanks for the video. It really takes me back to my teenage years, I remember finding out about Kimberly Kubus through Jinxtengu's works. I'm glad to know that his works are (still) actively being archived, and through this video those select few who knew and remember him and his works can come together and reminisce. I think it was his manifesto that was most influential to me. Again, thanks for the video, takes me back. Much love.

Got this from a Kubus-obsessed friend, thanks, now i can understand more!

@ClassicEd

Жыл бұрын

Now you can be the Kubus obsessed friend!

I'm fascinated by outsider art like this. Thanks for sharing.

thanks for this video. i don't think i would have ever bothered with it and thanks to you i now have at least a little glimpse into this world.

One of the best mini-docs I have watched in a while. The dude was a real creative, unfortunately it seems like a lot of creatives suffer from mental health issues. This video made me realize I have been creating things based on some weird mental rule book of things I must do. In reality the best things or at least the most provoking things are created when you let yourself create freely without too much thought.

Thank you. I have been following Mr. Kubus for quite some time now and it is good to see this.

Dude, this video is amazing, genuinely made me want to read more into it. I don't know how I found this but I'm so glad I did.

im only halfway through, but i cant believe this only has 100 views! well, it was uploaded 11 hours ago, oops, but this kind of video and narration is exactly the kind i like. thank you for the insight on kubus, ive never heard about them before!

Hardly accessible works made much more accessible! Well done! 👍

Found your channel while down the 3dmm rabbit hole and your channel is really high quality for the amount of subscribers you have. I think if you keep making videos you're bound to find success.

@ClassicEd

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! I'm still making some stuff, just slowed down a lot in recent months

Good video. A few notes on Kubus: He did drugs, crack in particular. He was friends with Jinxtengu (creator of Revenge of the Sunfish) plus the found Kubus card games are now on the Sunfish forum.

@ClassicEd

Жыл бұрын

Thanks, added some extra details to the pinned comment

@eduardopupucon

5 ай бұрын

obama

Kubus games and art meant a lot to me in my teens and I believe that he is actually more influential than many realize. Hopefully more and more will know his name and work as time goes on

Notes, corrections and links below: Some of the games were "prank games", including Insane Shampoo Madness Card Games actually are available on revenge of the sunfish forums Kim did indeed use drugs Kubus Forever: kubusforever.com/ Chat logs from cly5m: autofish.net/video_games/creation/game_maker/others/sparlatacus/index.html King of Good Stuff Examined: kingofgoodstuff.blogspot.com/ Kimberly Kubus Archive: www.youtube.com/@kimberlykubusarchive2346 Card Games: sunfish.proboards.com/thread/1202/card-games-kimberly-kubus Music by Dreaming World: dreamingworld.bandcamp.com/ Also want to say thanks to everybody that has shared thoughts and experiences in the comments. I didn't know Kim, and I didn't follow him especially, just played a few Johnny games. I just thought "hey I wonder what happened with those weird Johnny games?" one day and started reading and here we are.

@theolaps

Жыл бұрын

Hey, Classic Ed! Really a nice movie. I was a friend of Kim, and starred in some of his movies and played with Kim on his albums. His father told me they are not sure that it was indeed a suicide, or more a kind of accident.

@ClassicEd

Жыл бұрын

@@theolaps thanks for your comment and sorry about your friend. I had seen the odd KZread comment saying it may have been an accident but wasn't sure there was any basis in it.

@beanstalk7893

Жыл бұрын

@@theolaps I run the Kubus archive site, would you happen to have any of the albums? I'm always on the look out for more lost material.

@jimjohn1740

8 ай бұрын

wow revenge of the sunfish is a name I haven’t heard or even thought of in half a decade. This is an under-appreciated video, reminds me of a slightly similar video about a different outsider artist named Ilillia, or something like that? I must have watched it a couple years ago so I’m not sure, but I at least remember that video ending on a happier note

2,5k 953rd sub. Insanely underrated

ah, very fascinating

What have I just stumbled upon. I wouldn't have expected this topic to be so.. deep. It seems like you've documented it well in this video, though. Good job i think??

O wow the title

Finally, The Kubus is getting the attention he deserves! Poor Kim... The finest mind of his generation, come to such an end... P.S. The link to the "RFBBC" album was uploaded by Sylvie on a Discord server dedicated to Kimberly Kubus after I mentioned that Kim talked about how he came up with the album title in his "Story" vlog, and I wondered if someone who knew Kubus still had the album. Turns out the album was archived back in 2018/2021 by someone Sylvie knew from The Sunfish forums. the original link doesn't work anymore, so I archived it on my Google Drive.

@ClassicEd

Жыл бұрын

Hell yeah. Thanks for the preservation work!

@sinqu357

Жыл бұрын

@Classic Ed Now i'm working on uploading the whole album to KZread.

@sinqu357

Жыл бұрын

It's done; kzread.info/dash/bejne/g3-Hl5WSXcSnpcY.html

@sinqu357

Жыл бұрын

I have to say thank you for making such a great tribute video! You're doing God's work!

@ClassicEd

Жыл бұрын

@@sinqu357 yes I am going to listen to all of this. I actually have it sat in my downloads folder still and never got round to it

What is the name of the game/games in 16:13 - 16:36?

@ClassicEd

Жыл бұрын

It's Black Screen 3

@WaluigiPooper666

Жыл бұрын

@@ClassicEd Thanks

Hello, how do i play some of these games?

@ClassicEd

Жыл бұрын

Most of them are at www.kubusforever.com/games

:o