Agony Arena

Screenshot of the character "Maw" from the original Wiki.

Agony Arena was a Creepypasta-themed Roblox battlegrounds game "directed" by Francis with coding and art done by a handful of other unpaid developers.

In November 2024 during his Ϫth DFE crashout, the Discord server for the game was deleted, and the project was cancelled in favor of Printern.

Premise

Early model of "Shucks." Likely the furthest he progressed before the project was abandoned.

Battlegrounds is a Roblox subgrenre which is essentially a 3D fighting game, in which players fight each other with Overwatch-style charged abilities in destructible environments. The original Battlegrounds game was The Strongest Battlegrounds, whose mechanics became would become the basis of the subgenre. Most games in the subgenre are nearly identical, with Agony Arena's selling point being that its cast consisted of Creepypasta and Creepypasta-inspired characters, including Sonic.EXE, Mario 85, and Shucks, an SML character created by SlingMingo. It should be noted that Francis was not the first to have this idea, two Creepypasta-themed Battlegrounds games had been released in the time Agony Arena was being worked on.

Little else is known about the gameplay, because the project was shitcanned before anything substantial could be released.

Development

Early Concepts & Promotion

The earliest mention^{(that I know of)} of what would eventually become Agony Arena was on May 17th, where he talked about his enjoyment of the Sonic.EXE fandom and stated he intended to add the titular character to his game, then called Fallen Fighters. Francis first announced his intent to get back into Roblox dev in July, shortly after leaving the psych ward. On August 2nd he posted a teaser image for a project called Irida, along with an empty list of credits for it.

On August 19th, he posted about starting a new project called Pasta Battlegrounds, a "BG with Creepypasta characters." On the 28th he posted more concepts and a potential roster, stating that the game had been renamed to Agony Arena. He would then more promotional material over the next few weeks, including a finalized roster and art and music for some of the characters. On 9/11 (in the middle of the Sharty raid geg) he posted a flyer on Twitter seeking more developers and artists.

"Development"

[WIP] Francis never paid his devs zozzle

Trivia

• One of the terms of the "deal" with LiquidChungus was that he would use the original FallenChungus account to advertise Agony Arena. This never happened because the game never came out.
• Francis attempted to get Femtanyl, an (in)famous troon musician, to write music for Agony Arena. This collaboration fell through after Femtanyl stopped responding to Francis' DMs.
• The Agony Arena page on the original FallenChungus Wiki was written by AI and contained almost no useful information about the game. View an archive of the page here.
• A project file for the game can be found here. (Offsite archive forthcoming)