Hi, I'm making a game with a friend, it's a 2d runner/platformer about a lost astronaut running away from giant space worms in maze-like underground burrows. The most fun I have playing is to try to go as fast as I can in the few levels we built. I am therefore curious what the speedrunning community would think about it, and more broadly what kind of useful features speedrunners like to see on games of this genre to make runs as smooth and painless as possible, things like an in game timer for example (already there). There's also a crude leaderboard in place, so if you wish to try to beat the dev's time, please knock yourselves out.

You can try it here : https://affairesetrangeres.itch.io/this-is-no-cave

It's an early demo of course, we plan to try to find funding for the game so we can hopefully make a fully fledged title !

To the mods : if you consider this thread as unwanted advertisement, please feel free to delete it. It's not really the goal, I mainly wish to learn more about what makes a game interesting for speedrunners.