Speedrunning
Speedrunning
- one goal: beat the clock
- practice of playing games to its authored conclusion as fast as possible
- speedrunners treat games differently than ordinary players do
Categories
- any% - just finish the game by all means
- 100% - collect all keys, upgrades, find all secrets
- low% - obtain the fewest keys and upgrades as possible
- IL - individual level, speedrun of only specific parts/levels
- blind run - attempted without playing a game first
- blindfolded run - runner is literally blindfolded
Speedrunning
Important milestones
- 1986 - released Metroid, a game that rewarded fast playthroughs
- 1993 - released Doom, allowed to record demo files of playthrough
- 1994 - launched COMPET-N database, definitive installment of Doom speedrunning
- 1997 - released video Quake done Quick, first time speedrunning spread into gaming
- 1998 - released Zelda: Ocarina of Time, game well-known for its catalogue of glitches
- 2005 - launch of Youtube
- 2009 - launched SpeedRunsLive.com
- 2010 - first run of Games Done Quick, speedrun charity marathon
- 2011 - launch of Twitch
- 2014 - launched Speedrun.com
- 2016 - speedrunning is becoming increasingly popular
Speedruning
Terms
- Clipping - going through something solid
- Cutscene skip - skipping otherwise unskippable cutscenes
- Damage boost - purposefully getting hit to gain a momentum
- Death warp - dying to warp back to a checkpoint faster
- Sequence breaking - acquiring progress before the game design intends
- TAS - tool assisted speedrun
- Warp - getting from one area to another without traveling there
- Zip - taking advantage of a game's collision detection to move faster
Popular games for speedrunning
- Super Metroid, Super Mario, The Legend of Zelda
- Doom, Quake, Dark Souls, Cuphead
Super Mario glitch
Auto-scrolling in Rayman