Hey everyone, so myself and a few others in the farming community have decided to put together an event to boost the activity of smaller, lesser known games on the site, as well games with empty categories. Over the course of this next coming week (December 19th-26th), we will be tracking the amount of runs which are submitted by users who decide to participate, and see who can rack up the most runs over this time period. It's going to be a fun event that anyone and everyone can jump in on, and there's no minimum to the amount of runs you can submit either, so this should be a great opportunity to test games outside of your comfort zone.
What we do not allow: WE DO NOT ALLOW OR APPROVE OF SPAM SUBMISSIONS OF ANY KIND!!!! We will be tracking submissions for users competing in this event, so if we find any sort of spam, you will be removed from the event. We also do not prefer to have hoarding at the start of the event. We do have methods to catch hoarders, and if caught, will have those runs removed from the count.
I hope users here find interest in testing out some new genres of games over the week, and give the event a shot. On the 16th, I will be posting a comprehensive spreadsheet of about 200ish games which consists mainly of categories under 3 minutes each. Some titles on this list include: the "Mini" series (most popular series for run grinders recently), Gravity box, Leps World and more, and will also consist of games across multiple platforms (and some emulator-supported games).
Discord Link: https://discord.gg/Yb2qS778vJ
Spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1T4Od3i8H-14REdSluiDQBJbrVCZXnUD3B12reaFo7p0/edit?usp=drivesdk
Nice idea SeemsGood Depending on the chosen games I might participate. :) I'd also like to see more categories with runs longer than 3 minutes. Short runs are not really my thing.
@happycamper_ in the event, you may play any games and categories that you wish. The spreadsheet will be more of a guide to optimize your time spent grinding in the event, but that does not limit you to only running these games. For example, I will be running the Forza games, and these won't be listed on the sheet as they have relatively longer categories.
To add on to my initial message, I will post a few benchmarks from the run leaderboard, in case you want to make it into the top 100 users for total runs on the site (excluding rejected runs and current pending):
100th place: 746 runs 75th place: 853 runs 50th place: 1041 runs 30th place: 1376 runs 20th place: 1649 runs 10th place: 3068 runs 5th place: 4164 runs 1st place: 7967 runs
(Full leaderboard in the discord)
@Act7 the spreadsheet will be edited into the bottom of my initial post here, as well as in the discord
Will there be any pico-8 games on the spreadsheet? I hope there are.
you can play any games , the speadsheet is just 120+ suggestions
@astrolite I'd just like to see more people running pico-8 games (beyond Celeste Classic). And as a number of them are sub 3 minute games, it'd make sense to include some for people to check out.
Spreadsheet has been edited into my first message. More games are going to be added over the next few days, but this should be enough for people to start planning out their week.
And if anyone here wants to join the event, and doesn't want to join the discord, like or reply to this message so we know who to track for run week.
Several old DOS games I ran years ago got a burst of random submissions recently, and I think I finally figured out why. Anyway, it was nice to see some interest in some of these old and otherwise abandoned gems. Thanks for putting this together
Day 1 of run week has finished, and we are already seeing some great participation in the event. In the following spreadsheet, there will be daily updates for the participating members (anyone is still free to join).
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13FRHl_UMqYE3gxBmTnXsMQhxHFXLth7XFmiDG6y6pZk/edit?usp=sharing
Over the first 24 hours, 1522 total runs were submitted by 31 runners, including:
- @stathx with 325 runs
- @Otterstone_gamer with 270 runs
- @JeelSpeed with 112 runs
The following games received a large amount of run submissions:
- Car Obby with roughly 600 runs
- Longest Obby with roughly 550 runs
Good luck to all participants for the remaining 6 days of the event!
Props to @stathx for the impressive lead
Props to stathx for adding a game with so many ILs during run farm week, hes gonna get a lot of new runners
Congrats to everyone who participated in the event! Over the course of the week, we had a total of 5,502 with 32 participants. Now here are the weekly winners:
Third place: @killerkun... With 738 submissions Second place: @Otterstone_Gamer with 795 submissions
First place: @astrolite with 1213 submissions!
We are looking at having another event in a few months, so stay tuned for when that comes up.