Advanced Education with Viktor Strobovski: Delving into the Interdimensional Schoolhouse

Advanced Education with Viktor Strobovski (AEwVS) is a free-to-play indie horror survival game for Windows, created by MrDrNose. Heavily inspired by Baldi's Basics in Education and Learning by mystman12, AEwVS has evolved significantly since its initial alpha release on September 6, 2018. What began as a fangame has transformed into a unique project with its own identity, distancing itself from the "Baldi's Basics fangame" stigma. AEwVS presents a blend of horror, exploration, and puzzle-solving within the confines of a bizarre, interdimensional school.

A Journey Through the School

The game plunges players into the shoes of Angellica, a young girl who finds herself in an unfamiliar interdimensional schoolhouse. Her journey takes her across multiple floors, where she encounters a cast of unfriendly inhabitants. The core gameplay loop involves solving tasks, uncovering secrets, and navigating the treacherous environment. The player must escape Viktor, dodge Marzia's attacks, and survive Alice to progress through increasingly strange locations.

Gameplay Mechanics

AEwVS shares similarities with standard survival games, employing a first-person perspective for navigation and exploration.

Tasks and Objectives

The objective of the game is to go through each level, traversing through Viktor's school while collecting a number of notebooks based on several school subjects, answering problems written in them as they are collected. When the teachers angrily pursue the player, the player must learn how to utilize various items for survival, and learn the behavior of other characters in the game such as Mr.

Items

A major gameplay mechanic is the use of items, which can be picked up, thrown, used, or combined to create new items.

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Characters and Setting

AEwVS boasts an ensemble of colorful characters and places, each with their own unique function and gameplay elements. The strange world is filled with secrets and easter eggs, some revealing lore and others providing useful items.

Difficulty Levels

AEwVS offers scalable difficulty levels to cater to different player preferences.

Braniac Mode

For players seeking a challenge, Braniac mode presents difficult questions and relentless enemies.

Easy Mode

A more casual approach can be achieved by disabling faculty movement while solving questions.

Puss Mode

Puss mode allows players to explore the school in a safe environment without danger while the star teacher, Viktor, sasses you.

Development and Community

AEwVS is an in-development game being made by a single person that you can play for free.The game used to be updated frequently, with each update replacing and adding new content to the game.

Community Engagement

Players can join the Discord server for more fun and to connect with an active community. There, they can ask the creator questions about the game.

Reception

Upon its release, the game was played by multiple popular gaming YouTubers, including Markiplier, for its apparent uniqueness in comparison to other Baldi's Basics fangames. Because of this, it was relatively short, and almost all of the YouTubers playing it had not completed the game, due to it being one of many obscure/popular BBiEaL fangames yet to play, as well as it being difficult to figure out because of their failure to play methodically. In these early versions, MrDrNose added everyone he could find on YouTube who'd played the game to the special thanks list, as well as first people he could find who'd found secrets and completed objectives to the Completers and Finders lists. After a while, AbsolLover66,[1] among others, began trying to contact the popular YouTubers who'd played early versions of the game, asking them to play newer versions. A few have responded, but few responders published new videos about the game, and some have declined the offer, or suggested that MrDrNose end development toward AEwVS. Today, YouTube videos posted about AEwVS generally acquire a few hundred/thousand views, many of which are accumulated by the community. Recent videos about AEwVS posted by popular and dedicated players and showcasers have gained as little as less than a hundred views.

References

AEwVS includes multiple references to the SCP Foundation, suggesting that it may take place in an identical or similar universe. MrDrNose often refers to AEwVS as "aews". This is because on May 28, an unknown user joined the AEwVS Discord and began to insult the game, calling it "aews" and saying that it was "poorly made".

Re-education Mod Project

The mod project, Re-education, aims to create a more polished version of the old AEwVS, as well as finishing the unfinished. As of now, in the prototype phase, alphas are named in negative numbers. Re-education aims to finish what AEwVS started (like the History Level…) and build upon what already existed. As per usual, there is crude and graphic content in the game.

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Mod Team

Mr. Lurk / MysteriousGamerGuy / Mr. Pro - Creator of the mod.
Mitch - Provided me source code, motivated me to make the mod, and #1 player and playtester.
DyymaStudio Games - Allowing the use of their enemy, Kittie (in the Biology Level).

Installation

After you obtain the zip from downloading version of choice (recent patch is usually recommended, i.e. alpha -1b), just extract it.

AEwVS: A Paused Project

AEwVS now is paused and wont be updated since it is hard to make big updates.

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