Cheers! I will keep an eye out and if I spot any patterns re item drops i will let you know.

Btw I have emailed the dev about the level transitions to see if anything can help. I suspect not unfortunately.

Edit: Turns out the problem went away overnight - I think my phone must have been running some background process of something when I first played the game. Dev is extremely helpful btw.

One problem is that my level transitions seem to be about twice as slow as yours (though I run on an S7 Edge - hardly a slouch!) but I don't think there's much I can do about that, timing without transitions is impractical and changing the resolution etc doesn't seem to affect it.... Nvm, I will still try the run out.

Thanks B1aZ3n, and thanks for the really useful guidance. If you don't mind, I'm going to flagrantly copy your route / strats and put a time down. I've begun tentatively trying out the first few levels today.

I feel your pain, when I became a dad suddenly the chances of me sitting down in front of a PC / console in the evening / weekend to speedrun vanished and I can only run when the moons align, i.e.

(i) at lunchtimes at work; (ii) when the wife is out, the baby is asleep and I don't have stuff I have to get done; (iii) when the wife is out with the baby and I don't have stuff I have to get done; (iv) when I'm in bed and the wife and the baby are asleep (late night / early hours).

(ii) and (iii) are rarities so I'm mainly left with (i) and (iv), neither of which are PC/console friendly. My answer was mobile games and if you take a look at my profile you will see that somehow, despite dadhood, I manage to get a lot of speedrunning into my life. I discussed it a bit more here https://www.speedrun.com/Speedrunning/thread/d8s5v .

Btw, if you interested in running mobile games you are welcome to the mobile speedrunning discord at https://discord.gg/ujkXu29 and there is a discord for this game mentioned in the forum

@Nodlih I will verify your runs asap, I am not at a computer atm (on phone). Please note we understand the dev is releasing an update this weekend which will change the boss fights and introduce ledge grabbing. Just mentioning it in case you planned to do more runs on the existing version soon. Maybe better to wait until after the update.

Seems ok to me

On second thought, no harm in creating a server even if it is a quiet one for the moment. Feel free to join at https://discord.gg/TYJA2ZP

I feel like it might be worth a Discord for this game especially as there are updates and additions to it quite regularly, but as there are only 3 of us atm do we think it is worth it?

Cool, I won't touch the rules. Tbh you are so far ahead that we needn't worry about ms accuracy ftm!

I am.happy to change timing to start on the level 1 button press if everyone prefers that. End time is more difficult - it can't be when the character leaves the screen because your the character isn't visible with your new glitch. Congrats on the great time btw ianwubby!

Oops sorry, all done

Correct. Incidentally I think we should probably time with millisec going forward

Hi I don't speak French very well but I think you're asking for an iOS timing app. I don't have iOS so I don't know the answer but there is a mobile speedrunning discord at https://discord.gg/ujkXu29 where there are some good resources and other runners who may be able to help.

Rules changed :-)

As suggested, I have made it clear that on 8-track times with the glitch will not be accepted.

Thewizard1247 brings up the point that screenshot of best time should not be allowed as proof because some levels are glitchy (e.g. 8 track) and screenshots can be easily bodged.

I originally allowed screenshots in the rules as I know a lot of people do not always record their gameplay and I wanted the lb to be as inclusive as possible, but I did not know about the glitches at that point. I'm happy to put it to the vote. Anyone NOT want video of run to be mandatory?

An alternative, although a bit arbitrary, would be to add an agreed base time, e.g. 10 seconds or whatever, to every run time (IGT) so that the leaderboard could still accommodate negative IGT.

I am WR for that game and stoked you want to try it. The discord is https://discord.gg/4v9CGAf where you'll certainly find help with the run generally or feel free to post any issues / questions on the game's forum https://www.speedrun.com/Swordigo/forum (there are already one or two threads there discussing the route and some guides). Your proposed method of practice sounds sensible and good luck!

Nice one. I haven't got an iphone personally but I have heard good things about the screen recording on iOS11 so hopefully your game is supported.

Looks like a really interesting game to run with some cool tech. I notice the game has IAP - are any IAPs needed / relevant to the run?

Also, I'm a bit confused as the run ends after level 30 but there seems more of the story still to go, and I see there are 40 levels in the game?

Incidentally, if you are into speedrunning mobile games you are welcome to https://discord.gg/F2fJjUg. There's a lot of talk about what mobile games are good for speedrunning and a good place too to introduce other runners to your games.