#General info
Heya im jannik . i never posted here, so i guess ill do now . im like 2yrs late lmao . i mainly run indie games but i might try bigger games sometime.i watched a few speedruns before i made a src account but never tried speedrunning myself.
#First contact with speedrunning
i first came in contact with speedrunning / speedrun myself when i played a indie game in which i found a few little strats and exploits. I later found a speedrun of the game which rly hyped me up i grinded a bit and with my new found strats i actually got a close wr. The game wasnt / isnt run too much with just a few players ever speedrunning it, but in the end i put it from around 3:50min to 30seconds (yea i found som rather game changing glitches).
#Karlson
Later i would speedrun another small game called karlson (now named karlson2d) . The game didnt have a page and i dont remember if we even suggested one , but i had a little discord of around 40 people with lb .
After that the game dev made another game which in which i also organised the speedrun community. We first had it in the devs own server ,which was kind of a mess ,as the game got a lot of traction and many people speedrunning it. (The game was denied from having a speedrun.com page so we had our own lb on the discord) . We then later moved to a external server ( the main server was really cramped and big. 50k as of now . maybe about half at that time)
This was a really good move haha . As later we / i transformed that server to a game series hub, as the dev would release a little joke game in the same style as the last game. This game also attracted a lot of speedrunners ( The dev mentioned alot about speedruns in his vids , i guess thats why that was the case) Even tho the game is... well a bit wierd , it had / has his fair following and would actually get accepted on src for a page . i didnt suggest it as i didnt think they would accept such a game, but someone else external suggested it and got it on src. Later we would come in contact with a content mod which made it possible to get all games up on src .which rly helped me , since i was partly the only one managing the leaderboards and having the whole thing automated is way better haha.