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That is something I wanted to add for all the games I moderate, but I am lazy recently.
Do you mean you requested a new game to the site, or that you submitted a run to a certain game and it wasn't yet verified?
If it's the first, due to the current circumstances the game requests queue is slow right now, and it takes site staff more time to accept games. Just be patient.
If it's the second, try to contact the moderators of the game in question (although by site rules they are allowed 3 weeks to check runs).
Hollow knight Any% in 30-40 minutes is hardly casual. Calling it a casual game in general... many people might disagree.
In "Arzea", you are supposed to grind levels to be stronger and be able to kill some enemies more easily. In the last boss fight, the game expects you to be at least level 45 to have a chance at a manageable battle. In a speedrun you are highly under-leveled, so you can just snipe the boss from the side without triggering it. Here is a demonstration.
IGT (In-game time) means a timer or a clock that exist in the game itself, and you submit the final time shown on that clock. For example: https://www.speedrun.com/a_pirate_and_his_crates
RTA (Real time attack) means the time it took from start to end frames of a run, while counting all the time in the middle like pauses and loads. Used when the game doesn't have an in-game timer, or when it's inaccurate, or other reasons.
It's up to the moderators/community of each game to decide how to track the times on the game, with IGT or RTA. There are also leaderboards where you can submit both times.
Yes, read everything in those pages:
https://www.speedrun.com/requestgame https://www.speedrun.com/gamerequestrules
Sure! You should also probably read the guide on how to set up and maintain leaderboards as a moderator, here: https://www.speedrun.com/the_site/thread/pgxyw
While you don't need to set up a leaderboard from scratch in your case, it contains useful information on how you should set things and what each setting does.
In that case you should do some organizing to the leaderboard.
Is there any reason to separate between real time and in-game time? To me it looks like all the IL runs use IGT, and RTA is probably used for full-game runs, and there are currently no such runs.
Either state in the rules that RTA is used only for full game runs, and IGT is used for ILs only, or just remove the IGT column (in the settings) and let the time column be situational for the run type. You can fix the run in question by editing the IGT to be the current RTA, and remove the redundant time.
Also you should add rules to the leaderboard anyway.
Hollow knight has 2 speedrun achievements - completing the game in 10/5 hours, and one completion speedrun achievement which requires finishing 100% of the game in 20 hours.
Rayman Origins/Legends have time trials for all levels, and there are achievements that require getting gold medals for each level.
First, as a moderator you can indeed submit the run for other players by writing their username in the "Player" textbox, it will work as if they themselves have submitted the run, with link to their profile and everything. Unless the username you enter does not exist as an actual account, then it will be a simple text.
Second, what is the problem with the IL leaderboards? (I'm asking that knowing nothing about the game) If there is a major difference between gadgets on/off, and you allow both, it makes sense to separate them somehow. Are you planning to combine the runs into a single "Individual levels" leaderboard, and then separate the runs with a sub-category?
I also personally don't see any problem with blank space, that just means no one has run this level+category combination yet.
(Also also, if you do decide to transfer runs - transfer all runs FIRST, make sure everything is ok, and only then remove the redundant old runs)
The option to search specifically by game type does not exist. But you can take into account that most multi-game leaderboards have similar names. While this surely might miss some multi-game leaderboards on the site, this is what you're looking for:
https://www.speedrun.com/games#unofficial=on&title=multiple https://www.speedrun.com/games#unofficial=on&title=fecta
Also: https://www.speedrun.com/hp123pc https://www.speedrun.com/rwcef
Agreed. But you should post site-related feedback/suggestions here: https://www.speedrun.com/the_site/thread/g79jt
For most of those questions, read further on the tas videos site, I'm sure there are better answers there. In general, most runs are done on consoles emulators, which let you do frame-by-frame commands and other stuff like save states. There are some tools for TASing PC games but it's not really reliable.
For browser/flash games there are no tools (as far as I know), so TASing games like that is hard because you need to use pre-recorded scripts, and they can get out of sync real fast. I did a web-game TAS run like that myself some months ago here, but even though the run takes 1 minute, it took about 40 hours to make...
Welcome! This site (mostly) does not track TAS runs. You can check the official site for TAS, which contains run submissions, resources and guides: http://tasvideos.org/
There are a few game around here which have TAS runs posted in their forums, also Mirror's Edge leaderboard (the only one I know of) track TAS runs for individual levels: https://www.speedrun.com/me/individual_levels
