No full-game run
5 years ago
Germany

This board has been up for over 3 years and yet there is not a single full-game run on it. Nowadays, a game with only individual level runs wouldn't even get accepted in the first place. I strongly recommend getting full-game runs on the board. Many mobile and web game boards are poorly set up and don't meet the standards of boards of more conventional platforms. Since you're even tracking the DS version here you should try to meet those standards even more. As it is now, the board sets a bad example for mobile/web games on the site.

United States

The full game run is a bit long and requires a lot of practice. I run a few games and only one other person has even run the seasons. I'm sure it'll happen eventually. Sometimes it just takes time or people are busy. I'm planning on doing a run for every category, but it's a lot to learn and I haven't had all the time lately. Believe me, I want to get there, but it might just take a while.

I mean how long did it even take to have more than a few runs? Two years, right? I actually added rules, I mean, it seems like a lot of games don't even have that. (At least the ones with only a few runs do, which I guess I can see to an extent at times.) There's some games with more IL's than full-game, I'm sure. Especially for a mostly-mobile-ran game.

Recording on mobile is a bit annoying as Google doesn't allow internal audio recording, so to get sound, it requires being in a quiet room using the phone's speaker, which isn't always available for some people. Sure, I don't need audio necessarily, but I like to have good quality recordings if I can. This is also a reason it sometimes takes me so long to get runs recorded.

And regarding DS, my computer hasn't been working for a while, which is why I've even been running mobile. Recording a physical DS is a bit challenging to set up with just a phone as a camera.

Edited by the author 5 years ago
Germany

All valid points. Good to see that the board seems to be in the hands of someone who cares.

My point still stands, though: especially because mobile games usually already suffer on the quality side, intrinsically*, we're trying to at least have their speedrun representations meet some basic standards. It should be in the interest of mobile game runners to do something against the stigma that stems from too many similarly poorly set up and/or populated boards. (Note that there are many console game boards meeting those criteria as well, but it's the sheer number and nature of mobile games that's causing the issue of how they are perceived on the site.)

[quote=not an actual quote ;-)]* Life cycles of mobile games, among other modern game formats, tend to be much shorter and turnover rate much higher than conventional games, so there's less focus on fleshing them out as a game.[/quote]

Edited by the author 5 years ago
United States

That's fair. I know that myself and Masterbobli are both running every category. It's just going to take a bit while the other runs are ran first. For me, I do plan to do a full game run after I've ran the previous levels so I can have them memorized well enough.

Apologies for not getting back to you right away. I've been a bit busy and it's hard to know that a forum gets updated without manually checking it.

Edited by the author 5 years ago
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