Wow that Tetris Effect run was insane!
Hereâs a story about someone who made a cute little platform game that gotta attacked by speedrunners.
âAttackedâ and taking it like itâs a negative. He got attention and high quality testers for free. Iâd look at that as wholly positive.
ditto, complaining that people are tearing through your game and mining every little exploit is like complaining that people are tearing through your worldbuilding and figuring out all the mysteries; why else would you have put it there?
For me the story read like the author was actually confused. As if they had only learned, or truly learned about speedrunning through seeing people figure out their game. Being suprised how people can bite into game and figure out things that the maker who spent months with the game didnât know.
Still going though the runs I missed during the event, Banjo Kazooie and OoT were good runs however here is a sleeper hit.
For this specific run he had to use the Wii Remote pointer to menu. He did so blindfolded. So he couldnât turn away from the TV in this case.
You could put the sensor bar anywhere, right? Doesnât have to actually be near the screen even.
Maybe? I also know that bright lights can distract the Wii Remote and make it think that those lights are the end of the sensor bar, so I would worry about the potential for audience interference.
Absolutely blown away by these skills. While he doesnât pull off an unbroken Coda run, SpootyBiscuit is the only person in the world who has achieved that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPG6JBUfR44
I know this is the ESA but man it deserves to be shared.
GDQX starts today.
https://gamesdonequick.com/schedule/27
ESA run
https://youtu.be/nW8eYnHFIfk
TIL about speed running bounties. There are some games that have incredibly slow parts that canât be avoided. If an army of speed runners put in tons of effort, all the way down to examining source code, TAS-ing, etc. and still canât find a way around it, theyâll sometimes put out a cash bounty for anyone who can solve the problem.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ixjwLapm9I&feature=youtu.be
This Simpsons PC game has a part in the run where you have to grind for cash for 20+ minutes. If you can figure out a way to avoid this or at least reduce it to 10 minutes, you earn yourself $700.
Crystalis has pioneered the elevated art of the grind-avoid.