Ok, so first off some group rules:

• All runs MUST come with a recording.
• Any runs consisting of more than one level must game the game music, so no splicing of different recordings can happen.
• The runs will use the in game timer, precise to 0.01s.
• All multiple level runs must be continuous.

As for the timing in categories where there is more than one level, I'll suggest two methods:

• The run time starts when the timer starts in the first level of the run, and the run time ends when the timer ends in the last level of the run. These runs will be to a precision of 1s.

• The run time is the sum of all timers from all levels completed in the run (including the timers upon player death or upon retry). Since this relies only on the in-game timer, these runs will be to a precision of 0.01s.

I personally prefer method 2, as it allows for more precise runs, receiving an ad or having a slow phone is not a hindrance, and things like speed of clicking next level do not get factored in.

I'd like to hear everyone's thoughts on this, and we can have some proper rules in a couple weeks.

To be honest, method two is a bit time consuming as you're going to have to add up every time from every level after completing a run. Also, I think menuing should still be timed since you can move or jump during the fade in on the beginning of each level and as the game evolves I'm sure we'll find a way to use this to save a few frames.

I propose starting the timer upon tapping the first level and stopping it when the in-game timer ends at the last level of the run. The only thing you need to do to avoid ads is to disable your phone's internet connection before opening the game. You can disable it while still in the app but that won't guarantee that an ad didn't already get downloaded upon launching the game. If slow phones are an issue then this is not a bullet-proof method...

That sounds fine. The times will be the floor of the nearest second (I.e. a time of 12:99 will become a time of 12:00). We can revisit this if times are getting close enough to need to break this apart.

Aside from that, any other rules that should be there?

The other thing I was going to mention is what to do about current speed runs without a time. In particular, emojimoon holds many of the level recrords (mainly because he’s the only run ahah), but most of his runs are just a couple of screenshots.

I don’t want to delete his runs because I have no doubt that they were legitimate, but on the same token I would like to keep the rules consistent, so this is my idea:

• for the normal level runs only, a video is only required if you intend to break the record, otherwise a screenshot is acceptable. (Note that this does not include the 6 Speedrun levels - a video for all runs is still required in those categories, and of course in the main categories as well).

What do you think?

Wait, so as long as it's an individual level that's not a speedrun level, and that there's no submissions yet, I can just screenshot my time