IsraelWelcome! You should probably start with the guides on the Bully leaderboard, https://www.speedrun.com/bully/guides or ask anything in their forums, they can help you easier than the general community.
This question is mainly for the site mods out there.
Recently, a game I requested was denied. Now, this is not a complaint post, I'm just curious about the process for deciding if to approve or deny a game request for SRC.
Now, some background: The games I speedrun and moderate right now, are (mostly) 2D side-scroller platform games, on the web, from varying types, lengths, and eras. God knows how many of those exist out there on the internet, and on SRC in particular.
Quote from the request games rules: "At this time, we are not adding the following: Short/Trivial Games... If there are 100 flash games with similar content, we're probably not looking to track them. ...". I understand and respect that, but it's still kinda ambiguous. This rule I quoted was probably not really enforced in the past times, I guess, because the site is full of such short and trivial games. Hell, even 2-3 of my own games will probably not be accepted today as well.
Now, for 2D side-scrollers, they can be in different types and forms, of course. There are some very short games (1-5 minutes), medium length (5-15 minutes), and some very long ones. They can come with 15 or 30 short levels with each one lasting 5 seconds in average, or one giant map filled with enemies and obstacles. Some games have some gimmicks into them (like upgrades and powerups you need to collect, or some cool weapons and gadgets), and some are more simple and straightforward. However, at the core of it all, all those games still have one similar objective - to walk and jump to the end goal, and that's it.
So, I guess my real question is, what is the threshold? How long a game should be, or how "interesting" should it be, or a combination of both, for it to NOT be regarded as a "short/trivial" game?
If we take "extreme" cases, you can think of a game with a "revolutionary innovative gameplay mechanic" but can be finished in only 3 minutes, and another game with 100 short levels which lasts for 15 minutes, but all you can do is walk and jump over platforms, and is (probably) super boring to watch.
I know that there is no one definitive answer, but I would appreciate if you could share some of your personal thought process regarding this.
(I also realize than when a game I request is denied, I kinda feel bad about wasting the staff time :) )
You should post that in the feedback forum thread: https://www.speedrun.com/the_site/thread/g79jt
Have you tried using OBS? You create a "scene", and add resource for the game, and another resource for Livesplit as "Window Capture".
In the future, questions like that should be in the "Recording / Equipment" forum.
Great work! I did learned most of this stuff by myself over the last months, after moderating some games. The guide sure is helpful and explains everything in a neat way, and it surely could have helped Oreo of the past.
I think the distinction between "Individual levels" and "individual levels categories" should be clarified a bit more, and also how the rules defined for ILs and IL categories work.
For example, rules for levels are not required and should be added in special cases where something in the level is unique. I remember at the beginning, setting rules for an IL in one of my games, and then copy-pasting those rules to all 14 other levels instead of setting rules for a category in one place.
If you have a video of your run, which complies with the game and category rules, you are fine. In most cases you can even record runs on consoles with your phone.
Also, by "software for time" I assume you talk about Livesplit? Livesplit is never required for submissions, most games (must) have exact timing rules down to the start and ending frames, and you or the moderators can time the run based on the video of the run alone.
Also, this question probably belongs to the speedrunning forum.
I guess you talk about many of the old DOS games. Well, TASVideos.org has plenty of them here: http://tasvideos.org/Movies-DOS-DOOM.html
I'm personally more into 2D platformers, and the site do have many of my old favorites, like "Dangerous Dave", "Jill of the Jungle", "Commander Keen", "Hocus Pocus", "Crystal Caves", "Duke Nukem".
Edit: Well, maybe they are not the arcade games from the 80s, but it's close I think.
