IsraelYes, it's quite sad now. I used to search games with "2D platformer" tag to have new ideas about games to run.
There are many possible terms in the "glitchless" section, and they vary for each game, and also for what the community of the game decides. My take on those terms, based on the many leaderboards I have seen here:
"Glitchless" - usually means no using glitches at all, no wall clipping, no sequence breaking, no using unintended mechanics. "No OOB" - Clipping outside of the main game-play area is not allowed, but everything else is. "No major glitches" - Some of the bigger glitches that may skip major portions of a game/level are not allowed, but everything else is "No (specific glitch name)" - Only a single (usually major) glitch is banned, everything else is allowed. This category is usually made after a new big glitch is discovered, but there are already many runs without it, so a new leaderboard is made to still keep track of the old runs without that glitch. This game has some examples of those categories: https://www.speedrun.com/jak1
Note that the term "glitch" is also very subjective, and therefore it can make several debates over rules in many games. This video by EZScape explains it quite well, and give examples from several games:
If you are submitting a new game and are moderating it, you are basically the entire community for that game (hopefully not for a long time), so you make the rules as you see fit for this game.
Welcome! Also, top 10 in any game... this goal might be very easy, if you are not focusing on the super popular games. I can only wish my games would have 10 players each.
To be fair, I wouldn't call Mr. Bree a "casual speedgame". It has similar gameplay mechanics as Super Meat Boy, which is a hard game by itself. Sure, some levels are short and trivial, but the others can be a huge pain (flashbacks to hardcore mode intensifies). Still a fun game if anyone wants to give it a try!
Funny, I saw the title and immediately remembered a "speedrun" I did in the unlikely genre of them all - Idle game. I basically ran the first difficulty of the game, which for most people might take 3-6 months, it took me "only" 67 days. (Game name is NGU Idle by the way).
Minor bug regarding the new "Game rules" section: When you write/edit anything in the game rules as a moderator for that game, and then save your changes - the popup modal doesn't close automatically, and so it seems that nothing is happening, although the rules are updating just fine.
For running Free to Play games, you can browse the games list while filtering by "Web" platform, You get a list of about 1000 games which you can play instantly on the browser. The list have many different genres (2D/3D Platformers, puzzle, point and click, etc...), and some of the games are very short/nonsensical, so you will have to decide what you like and want to run.
I personally run and moderate some 2D platformers, if that is your cup of tea.
Okay, you were right about your complaints. I made some changes - "NG+ reverse reversed" is no longer a category in itself. Instead, I made a new "Levels order" variable (not sub-category) for the NG+ categories.
Now you can choose if you want to do the reverse mode in normal or reverse order, and everything is still comparable on the same leaderboard.
I play the game on Kongregate, but I found out that the game has slightly different versions in other sites. The most important difference is the in-game timer for each individual level. In Kongregate, for example, the timer start right when the level is loaded and ends when picking the puzzle piece. In NotDoppler for example, the timer is reset on every death. Thus making the in-game timer unreliable in case of a checkpoint-death in a level.
Also, there may be differences in the levels layouts themselves (Kongregate and NotDoppler also differ by the layout of level 3)
So, to make it easier, all runs of the game must be ran exclusively on Kongregate, to make a fair competition between all runners.
Kongregate - https://www.kongregate.com/games/TawStudio/mr-bree-returning-home
EDIT: Recently I found a very useful program for playing many of the flash games out there. It downloads the SWF files locally, and play the game locally on the computer (even offline), but it makes them think they are being played on the browser. "Mr. Bree Returning Home" is there too, and I checked that version, it's identical in gameplay to the Kongregate version (although some of the logos are different). Playing the game on this version is allowed, if you want. https://bluemaxima.org/flashpoint/
The idea behind NG+ category is not just complete all levels, any way you want (you can do that in 100% category though). "New game plus" usually means doing a new game, but any skills/abilities/currency/weapons/whatever you had in the previous playthrough, are carried over. Since the game doesn't have a true NG+ mode, I made it with the rules that you should play the levels in order, to imitate a "new game", but with all skills unlocked right from the start.
I know I could let people play in whatever order they want in NG+, but decided not to. There is a logic behind the normal progression across the levels, being it a kind of "New Game" category. Reverse level order also makes sense in Reverse mode, so I decided to allow it here, in a different category.
By the way, just though about it a little, the two categories actually do have a huge difference between them - positions of the long/hard levels. By doing the longer and harder levels (Everything from 14 to 19) first, you minimize the risk of a good run to die near the end. I imagine most of the resets will be at the beginning of the run, and the later levels can be cheesed without any major problem. This means less stress during the run, good for speedrunning.
I kinda agree with you, it's just playing the reversed levels in reverse order, everything else stays the same.
It is supposed to be a meme category of sort. Can you call it a true NG+ reverse without everything being reversed? :)
I will move it to the misc categories as well, if someone wants to play it then let them have their fun.
