Recognized Maniacs

Recognized Maniacs is an Undertale AU, founded by Xinos, but has since been co-owned by Xinos, Dielan and Retri. Recognized Maniacs has been programmed by Shipel and has various contributors and team members who have provided assets.

Recognized Maniacs is a visual novel with RPG elements and may not be the Undertale AU fangame you will expect.

Follow the Recognized Maniacs Official Soundtrack account on Soundcloud.
https://soundcloud.com/recognized-maniacs

QNA/FAQ:

✧ What is Recognized Maniacs about? ✧

Recognized Maniacs is an Undertale AU featuring the abundance of versions and remixes of Undertale's MEGALOVANIA, in the roles of characters within Undertale. Yes, MEGALOVANIAs become characters.

Recognized Maniacs follows the story of a community of creators, who once coexisted with their creations. However, one day, they locked away the creations. Ace (Acedia), one of the latest guests of the Megaloprison, explores the stories of the maniacs who have been trapped beneath with no hope of a new light for years. As Ace, will you treat it like a prison? Or will you treat it like a home?

✧ Full RM Game? That'll take a very long time to make! ✧

This game will emulate the storyline of Recognized Maniacs, but due to limitations, it will lack various mechanics which are present in Undertale and typical Undertale fan games. This game was designed with the intent of delivering the storyline successfully and compiling the large soundtrack which had already existed into an interactive format.

The first released build is the DEMO. This includes all content which is labelled as Chapter 1 of Recognized Maniacs.

✧ Okay, but when will the full game be released? ✧

ETA: 4 months to 12 months.

✧ It's so late, the community dead already, why are you still doing this? ✧

The Soundcloud Undertale AU community means a lot of many people. Recognized Maniacs happens to share a lot of the traits that the entire community has. Ultimately, it is a shitpost. But it's also something that the community has bonded over, through creators and creations. There are also a substantial amount of unused assets lying around in the dust, so it was a good opportunity for Shipel, the programmer, to get started on using them.

✧ The art style seems inconsistent/The music is a bit lower quality... Can you explain why? ✧

Although many music assets were created for Recognized Maniacs back around 2017-2019, there wasn't a whole lot of planning in the art department. The reboot in 2019 just got started with manifesting the megalos into fuller characters. There was not a lot of art created for RM, especially ones for standalone characters. The game aims to include all leftover assets, music and art. Meaning that even if the art is inconsistent, it will be included anyway. There are plans to hopefully overhaul the character designs/sprites once more artists can get on board with the development team.

As for the music, many creators have deleted their tracks from Soundcloud and some of them cannot be archived or tracked down. Hence, they were either recreated or found from other reuploading sources, which may have resulted in a poorer quality song.

✧ What gameplay features should I expect if it is a visual novel with RPG elements? ✧

• The battle UI has 4 buttons, SPELL, CHECK, ITEM and MERCY. SPELL replaces the FIGHT button from Undertale as Ace only knows 1 spell, "Bullet Hell". This is an instakill attack as it is too complex to have so many characters with individual stats and health bars. CHECK replaces the ACT button from Undertale. It is also too complex to have multiple ACT options, hence many minor encounters will include instasparing. These features may change in the future based on feedback.

• The full game will have a functional pacifist run, many neutral runs and genocide run based upon the choices of the player. The demo has about 14 different endings.

• The game will remember significant events from past playthroughs.

• A lack of a bullet hell battling system, however more akin to Earthbound's battle system.

• Consumable/usable items and equipable items.

• An unlockable music room/achievements menu.

• An awesome soundtrack.

• Language translation/localisation. We are currently working on getting a Chinese translation of RM, however, more languages may come with volunteers.

• Sad backstories.

• Injokes galore.

• Secrets and FUN.

✧ Hi, I don't really want anything to do with this project but I used to work for Recognized Maniacs. ✧

That's completely fine. I will be sure to ask as many people as possible before getting them involved in the project. If it's just a character, remember that character is a megalo and is not a reflection of you. However, if you truly do feel uncomfortable, then that's unfortunate.

Please speak to Shipel or any development team members and we can make arrangements. We will not include anything if we feel like it personally violates your comfort. If you have previously rejected Shipel/Dev Team's offers for anything, we will continue to respect those wishes.

✧ Hey, something looks wrong here, is this a bug? ✧

Please contact Shipel or tell any of the development team members to pass it on to Shipel. Your cooperation and feedback will be greatly appreciated.

✧ If you're making RM, are you going to be making a Deltarune Equivalent to RM/Recognized Maniacs: Halloween Hack?✧

As awesome as Deltarune is, RM:HH will not be made. Making Recognized Maniacs into a game is a big enough project and tribute to the community. In addition, Deltarune isn't even a finished game yet.

✧ Hey! Can I please be part of Recognized Maniacs? Can I have this role please? ✧

Well, I won't completely reject you. Depending on your request, you may. There are some conditions though.

• The 1000 plays rule is still in place. Your megalo must have over 1000 plays before being considered for a role in RM.

• The role must not already be taken.

• You must cooperate with the Dev Team when being asked for anything. You may be asked to provide the context for your megalo, as well as character information such as stats and personality.

• If you do not say anything about your role, the Dev Team will make assumptions and do the writing for you.

• Art and designs for your megalo are not guaranteed. Many current designs are already google images-esque stuff.

✧ Hey! Can I please be part of the development team for RM? ✧

We are definitely looking for more artists, graphic designers and writers. We have a lot of sprites to create, including multiple expressions for each characters, character portraits and things that might not even be sprites, like backgrounds!

We also have many placeholder art assets, so it would be good to have those removed as soon as possible and replaced with non-placeholder assets.

✧ Is this game a virus? ✧

Your computer shouldn't detect it as a virus, but whatever, it's not. I know better places to share viruses and a Gamejolt page isn't one.

✧ Is this game free? ✧

Yes! Since we heavily reference content from other media and would also not like to get caught in legal troubles, RM will forever be free.

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