French Southern Territories
Do you have any speedrunning or speedrunning-related goals for 2023? If you do, share them here! (And next year we can check this thread again to see how things went).
Here are mine: I want to get a sub 2:30 in ".S" I want to get a sub 2:30 in "Tim_" Any% And I want to get a sub 6:30 in "Mobility" NMG Contact
Its just 3 games so hopefully I can get everything done this year.
Edit: probably should have titled this "share your speedrunning Goals" or something because people seem to have misinterpreted the thread as just being about my goals, and are wishing me luck without saying anything themselves
This is such a boring recap because almost none of it is about speedrunning. It's just stuff like "the site got updated" and then no other entries for the entire month. So many people did so many really cool and really impressive things, and I feel like a rewind or recap should have the purpose of highlighting those achievements.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kQxoyn1jxgNc_VwkDKBMakd3Nopl6X3hRj_iS0F9rMo/edit?usp=sharing
i made a thing for 2023
nowadays most scratch games get accepted to the site normally, but there is a leaderboard for a bunch of miscellaneous scratch games at https://speedrun.com/osg
Most of the people active on the forums are newer users of the site. I'd recommend you contact some people in the speedrun.com discord or maybe DM some former site staff to get accounts of what the site was like early on. You can also use the wayback machine to look at archived pages of src
When I get home I'll make a spreadsheet/google doc for 2023 and I'll let you guys help. I only really follow webgames and Nintendo speedrunning, so the stuff that I write down is mostly going to be related to that. Having runners from other communities will make the recap way better.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Rq-ynf7YJOue4Q_0mouOoU0Q8s4Dw6tcz9-a6-oPebY/edit?usp=sharing
I have been compiling every single notable speedrunning discovery/accomplishment I saw for the past year. Here is what I have
It's not done, some things show up on the list twice and I didn't finish typing everything (one entry just says "Spelunky??") but yeah
[quote]There is, that people can easily beat you[/quote]
That's not a downside, you shouldn't be speedrunning for the sole purpose of getting a world record. The competition aspect of speedrunning is only a small part of what speedrunning is about, and by hoarding your strategies you not only prevent top runners from pushing the games they run to their limits, you also prevent people who won't ever go for world record from achieving their goal times.
If you don't want people to easily beat you, try getting good. [quote]Only a thing about 50 years ago. Now, most runs are required to have a video[/quote] ...50 years ago? Like in the 1970s?
Also, recently there was a splatoon runner who refused to record videos of his runs because he wanted to have the world record. His runs couldn't be "verified" but he still kept them secret. It doesn't matter that runs are "required" to have video if people are perfectly content to just not have their run verified.
"strat hoarding" is very frowned upon. By keeping your strats secret, you are withholding information that would help other runners, giving the hoarder an unfair advantage. People who do hoard strats are usually doing so to just get a world record, which goes against the spirit of speedrunning. Speedrunning is a competition, but it's not a zero sum game. By sharing a strategy, everybody in a community benefits, so there's no downside to sharing. Keeping it secret is just toxic. Additionally, in order to keep strategies secret, people can't upload videos of their times, which means that the world record probably won't have any proof as a result. And worst of all, if someone stops running a game while hoarding a strategy, the community might never find out what the strategy was. I know a guy who said he would keep his strategy secret until someone beat one of his times on 60hz (most world records in this game were done on 144hz). Recently, a runner managed to beat him on 60hz, and the hoarder FORGOT what his strategy was, meaning we'll probably never know what he did.
Just because something is a webgames, or is 'dead' does not mean nobody cares about it. Pretty much every game I run fits that description and I care a lot about all of them. There are definitely problems with farming but "they only run games nobody cares about" is not one of them. That's such a bad take.
The pro to run/wr/game farming is that you end up running a lot of different games you probably wouldn't have tried otherwise. While I was farming fgwrs, I had to push myself out of my comfort zone in order to find new games to run, and I ended up having a lot of fun running those games.
However, a lot of farmers, especially those who are near the top of the leaderboards, don't really benefit from running new varieties of games because they spend as little time as possible running/playing the game, so they can spend more time running other games. Most of the time, when a farmer submits a run to a game I mod, it's a run of a single level, and it's usually close to last place, or a trivial tied world record. I genuinely don't see the fun in that.
That doesn't go for all farmers though. Comrade_S has been running Mobility a lot lately and has put a lot of effort into the game. He's improved his PBs multiple times, gotten feedback on how to improve his runs, and submitted times to many levels, including hard ones that take practice to learn. It genuinely makes me happy to see another person enjoying the game. I guess another pro of farming is that it can bring activity to games that would otherwise be very dead.
