Hello there, some of you may have noticed a few changes that recently have been made to the leaderboards. In the following, I will describe them and the reasoning behind them. And since it is the end of the year I will use the opportunity to sum up what happened to the game this year as well.

Leaderboard Changes

The categories have been renamed and resorted. Previously, there were two categories: Any% Obi-Wan and Any% Anakin. A bug that allows skipping large parts of the game has led to a large split in the Any% Anakin times. To not belittle the efforts to play all levels with Anakin (and to encourage it), these runs have been separated. The categories changes read

Any% Obi-Wan ---> All Levels - Obi-Wan (Old) Any% Anakin ---> All Levels - Anakin (New) Any% Anakin ---> Any%

The rules have been specified as well. The All Levels category requires playing all levels with one character. Changing the character to skip levels is NOT allowed. The new Any% category allows skipping levels.

The leaderboards have been updated to reflect these changes. Hopefully, no one got spammed with messages.

Site Changes

Over the course of the year, the site has been updated. This includes a new design using recreated artwork of the game. Small changes have been made as well, e.g., the addition to the Star Wars series, a slight name change, a new URL, updated information and rules, and more.

While changing the leaderboard categories the newly added Region option has been added to recent runs.

Earlier this year the timing rule has been clarified and some runs got updated. A forum post has been made since the old site had no News tab.

Members

While the game is still very small/niche a few new names can be seen on the leaderboards. I have become the new Super Moderator at the beginning of this year, superseding timesink. A few days ago I have added a new Moderator as well. A warm welcome to StarFalco64 who also had the idea for the current leaderboard changes.

TAS

A personal concern are Tool-Assisted speedruns. I have created a TAS for the current Any% route. The first iteration has beaten the game in 10:19, an optimized version clocks in at 10:06, and the current (unreleased) one beats the game in 10:04. Many small tricks have been found along the way. Maybe we will see a sub-10 TAS one day. The fastest version can be found under the Resources tab.

This concludes the year and there is nothing more to say except Happy New Year!