Hello everybody, I've been a fan of speed runs for the last few years, but I've finally gotten the time to begin doing some runs of my own so I decide to create an account. I primarily play mobile games and was looking to add a few new games to the site: Battleheart and Magic Rampage. I've spent the last few months routing these games and have started doing full runs, however I'm not sure how to create a speed run for these games, any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks

Getting into speedrunning is much harder than you'd think. It's best to start out with simple games or categories. The point and click genre does this nicely. It's mainly just mouse movement with slight precision. Mario Kart 64 No Skips is a wonderful start as well. I've found this category helped me easily get used to speedrunning.

Start by playing through the game casually two or three times. This will help you know where everything is and just get used to the game in general. From there, do a no reset run just to get a time. This will help you test out what works or makes you faster. You can visually see what you should and shouldn't do using subsplits. Finally, it's time to learn a decent route, learn the glitches and strats, and optimize yourself.

It's great to see you! Best of luck on your runs! :) See you around.

Thanks I will try out Mario Kart 64 when I get a chance, however after my original post I was able to figure out what I needed to do to create the categories for my games and am going to focus on that for now. Best of luck with your runs.

^ You'll be running the games for long periods of time, so it's also important to make sure you love the game at least somewhat.