Use the "Follow Settings" on the left hand side bar of the main page for any game, it's the last choice of the list of options after the "Statistics" button.

If keeping up with moderating Nidhogg 2 doesnt fit into your schedule anymore it sound like we need at least one moderator who can attend to speedrun.com. Do you have someone in mind from the Nidhogg 2 community that would be a good choice?

If you unable to come up with anyone I would be willing to volunteer. I think it's important that people that choose to moderate are able to do so games pages to not become decrepit and possibly discourage other runners from joining in.

Secondly, instead of starting a brand new discord, can we try using the Nidhogg discord that already exists and is decently populated. It was even made by the creator of Nidhogg: https://discord.gg/Da8syZS . We could even ask the mods if they could create a room for speedrunners! I think that would do a better job of keeping the Nidhogg community together and making it more likely there could be people getting in on speedrunning if they are in the same Discord server of people are do speedrun (since the speedrunning community is tiny at the moment).

Also, I see that you attended to UncleAdork's post about having submitted a new speedrun but I don't see a response to the post I made in the same thread about rules and standards. Could you please follow up on that? I think the easiest thing to do is work off the rules that Nidhogg (1) already has established on their page for starters.

Thanks.

@UncleAdork

Congrats on getting #1 !!!

I understand accessibility by allowing anyone to run the game on P.C. at any frames per second but this opens the runs to being gamed by people who are looking for an advantage. It makes speedrunning competitively less accessible to people who run the game at 60fps an easier for every frame per second less.

Then it seems the best thing would be to set different records cause it seems open to exploitation to allow people running the game at 60fps to compete with people who can underclock their system to run at, for example, 7fps.

Maybe setup a 60fps category and a AnyFPS category? Also I don't see any rules posted yet (which I feel should be taking the lead from other well known games that may deal with the same issue in terms of what is standard for speedrunning when dealing with variant FPS between runners).

Also, categories based on different consoles make sense as well, no?

Finally another idea may be to just have it run off of a classic timer set up by the streamer visible to a viewer which is very common if there is variance in FPS instead of using the in game timer (since different FPS in a game like Nidhogg changes the reaction times completely and deflates people's run times, again leaving it open to cheating from bad actors).

I am interested in running this game but as it stands at the moment running my game as it naturally runs at a 60+FPS I don't see how I could run against people who are playing a different game that is running in slow motion. If that is to be the case, then a guide to how to lower my FPS down to whatever the minimum is established by the rules would be appreciated.

Thanks!

I just sent him a direct message on twitter saying the following:

"hey! this is just a nudge to check out the forum for nidhogg 2 at speedrun.com we have questions about settings rules and expectations to make it clear what constitutes a legal run, how to determine timing if people's machines process the game differently, what if it's on console, etc. also someone has submitted a run and is hoping to have it approved. we look forward to having you join the conversation. cheers!"

Hopefully we will hear back soon. If not then we will have to contact the people from this website to ask them to help intervene.

@UncleAdork I can do so this evening when I'm home from work.

I just logged in for the first time to see what the times looked like for Nidhogg 2 since I'm really loving the game and might use it as the first game I ever try speedrunning but I'm unclear what the criteria is and how it is being considered between different platforms, if only the in game time is used (on P.C. this could be tricky if different people's systems run the game at different speeds, right?) or any other specifics that would disqualify a speedrun attempt. I wonder if more people might be motivated also to submit attempts if there was rules in place so the game felt a little more active and there would be a sense of more community and competition. Cheers!