Moray, ScotlandI make a small request that I'd prefer for it not to start around the 14th, as I may be on vacation that week. I also intend to submit to Frame Fatales which happens on February the 23rd to the 29th - however, my times can be adjusted to stop potential clashing, so it's less of an issue.
You don't have to cater to me, but it does indeed feel like this place is in need of submissions.
I guess I'm biased, but Grapple Force Rena. It may look slow and plain at first glance, but it's got a lot of cool tech and sneaky tricks. Unfortunately I don't think I'll be able to catch it live, but I'll watch the recording for sure.
Please check the about page before making the mistake of necroposting on a marathon that finished months ago
This is one big reason we really need to separate current, past and upcoming marathons on the forums.
Can the goo.gl links be replaced with another link shortener or pastebin? The google link shortening service died ages ago, they aren't clickable and pasting them in only brings me to looking it up in the search engine, which shows nothing more than a load of linkbacks.
Jazz Jackrabbit 2 -cough-. I know Epic has a dubious reputation these days, but the game is way back from 1998. It's got fun movement and a lot of tech that players like in popular platforming speedgames, yet it's not the hardest thing to pick up and learn. I'd love to have more competition in other categories.
To a lesser extent, Freedom Planet. It's a more popular speedgame but I still feel like it's underappreciated, especially Carol and Milla. But I can't blame a lot of runners for dropping the game, it's one of the hardest to master and can be very punishing. But when everything goes well, it's really stylish.
Then there's games I'm considering picking up that are even less appreciated. Like they could do with a lot of routing/glitch-hunting.
You mean individual levels or things like episodes? For the latter I recommend making it a misc category. Theres a checkbox for it.
Or do you mean subcategories?
On an unrelated note, here's some quality of life improvement ideas for marathons on speedrun.com;
Auto-synchronization between horaro and speedrun.com - virtually nobody uses the latter for putting up schedules, it's not convenient to update on two websites at once.
Notifications if a game you followed gets accepted into a marathon.
Past and and upcoming marathons a user has taken/is taking part in. Can also be manually added if the user do so wishes.
If a marathon is currently running, it is temporarily kept to the top of the marathon forums and categorized as so. Lets also say if the schedule was auto-synchronized with horaro or on speedrun.com itself, no additional input is needed on the organisers end.
Below currently running marathons would be Upcoming as middle and Past as a bottom category. This would help clean it up a lot and combat necroposting.
When submitting a game, let players submit subdefinitions of main categories without the need to type them. It's all fine if it's just Any% with no other specification, but some have ones like certain characters and different rulesets.
Oh right., is there any chance we can recover the old assets? The ones I used were saved on a broken PC and weren't uploaded anywhere else.
EDIT: Oh no, pixelart backgrounds look really bad. I really want an option to tile instead of upscale.
I enjoyed layers, as those are really useful for tileable backgrounds, especially landscapes.
I have a soft spot for autoscrolling (I used it for two of the boards I customised), but I know a few find it annoying and old PC and mobile devices don't particularly like it. If it does return, perhaps have an option to turn it off and leave it off for mobile devices. I find it's great for tiled landscapes and menu-style backgrounds. Vertical scrolling would be nice too
And yeah...I'd like to be able to colour the main tables to compliment backgrounds again.
It was probably deleted because the mods want all feedback on one thread. https://www.speedrun.com/The_Site/thread/c0en0
And yes - backgrounds as an option were removed because Pac didn't like the majority of leaderboard backgrounds. I made a masterpost idea to solve this issue.
I know there is a thread, but this post is pretty big and I'd rather it not get buried among them. So, here are a list of options, that can even be mixed in some cases;
Option A: Bring layout mods, with new background options that help reduce clashing. Yep, just moderators who do nothing but moderate layouts, logos and themes. Every background that would get submitted would have to be verified by them. If the submitter is found to be consistently good at it, they no longer need to be verified. They would also have the power to edit layouts of all games in the case of color-scheme disasters, and those who apply would need a portfolio or history of making good layouts. I am 100% willing to do this.
Additional options to edit backgrounds that reduce distractiveness can be added, such as dimming, desaturating, basic hue filtering and lowering contrast - with a level to apply them. This helps a lot against clashing. Backgrounds can be previewed before submission. GIFs wouldn't work with this, but they're such an outdated format that little editors used anyway (I'd rather it be applied to the image because applying it on the page could be draining on the CPU, especially mobile users).
Option B: Make banners more customisable and provide guidelines, and provide different customisation versions for light and dark layouts -OR- Make dark/light layout surroundings automatically adjust in accordance. That way we should be able to have some more layout editing options back.
Banner customisability options such as tile instead of upscale would be so much better for pixelart. At the moment it gives you an ugly blurry mass.
Have banner guidelines so I know what should look the best and instead of a very cropped/distorted image.
Option B is not my favourite, but it seems far more likely to go through.
Hey guys...
You can use google cache to find the old layouts of speedrun.com. I don't know how long it'll last however.
Just type cache:speedrun.com/putleaderboardnamehere in google search.
If were going to keep banners (even though I still prefer backgrounds), can there please be an option to not upscale images and tile them instead? Pixelart banners look awful, and it is a staple style of many videogames.
Just compare this: https://bit.ly/2Y3lqPu
And its cached animated version: https://bit.ly/2IugvBN
to this (lol): https://www.speedrun.com/fp
I haven't been given a recommended size so I don't know how to stop the blurry mass.
Custom backgrounds had their days numbered ever since
Yeah I know, and expressed my dislike of removal of them on the forums a couple of months ago. I didn't think customising the color tables would be removed as well.
I can only maybe imagine removing backgrounds for bandwidth saving reasons, but removing it because some people were crap at it feels like ruining the fun for everyone else. (I can't read the twitter post)
Gonna be frank..
I don't like that themes were removed. At all.
All the effort I put into giving leaderboards their own character..gone. It's youtube 3.0 all over again.
They're a bit outdated now, but still worth a watch. Hoping they get updated soon.
Recently a fullgame Milla TAS set was done, but it's not fully functional due to RNG pains. Here's a DV Lilac TAS to keep us occupied in the meantime.
