Always trying to broaden my gaming horizons and learn about game design, recently that has meant a deep dive into tabletop RPGs, boardgames, online games, eSports and making games. Speedruns are interesting to me as a way of dissecting games and learning how they tick. I think it is incredible how some strats come about by basically reverse engineering/deciphering the coding of the game. Respect to the people that find these strategies.

I think I will give some speedrunning a go. When I had less money, I often played games in unusual ways or with self imposed rules, just to get more out of them, so not entirely unfamiliar with playing games in different ways to intended. I'm not a super skilled gamer, so not gonna speedrun stuff that simply requires you git good, more into exploits and optimization.

I had a question to ask. what do you do if no-one speedruns a game you'd like to run? do you just do it anyway and see if you encourage others to compete? Been trying to practice costume quest 2, but there is like two runs from years ago. Maybe I should pick something newer/more popular. But I have come this far, might keep trying to at least post a decent time. Any% record is 1:15 and so far managed to reach final boss in under two hours with a sloppy, mess around run. I have some different ideas to the other guy that ran it. With practice and planning I think I can get close at least. Even repetitively playing, it is a fun, lighthearted game, I recommend it to anyone wanting to give it a try

aye. a lot of work and memorization is needed if you want to be the best. its just important to remember you must keep having fun. otherwise its really just pointless. without the passion you will have no drive and never reach the top.

if a game is not on the site currently, you can request it here. you become the moderator for that leaderboard and you can choose to bring people your way through means of suggestions to friends or announcing races. cheers m8 https://www.speedrun.com/requestgame

Yeah you can always suggest games (have a speedrun ready to submit) and if it's a game that;s not as active do what I did and contact one of the mods thru social media and see if they are willing to add you as a mod and try to bring it back to life like I am trying to do with dynasty warriors 3. it's always worth a shot. Good luck bro on the fields of speed.