Being able to keep up with new tactics for an individual game can be daunting if lots of players are actively working on solving the equation of a particular game’s optimal route. If a viewer is unfamiliar with a game at all, they may not even understand why players seemingly do strange things throughout runs or understand when a player has successfully executed something impressive. Sometimes glitches look difficult but are easy to perform or vice versa. A downside of spectating speedruns is that each game has its own intricacies, bugs, or techniques to understand before being able to fully appreciate a run. Watching a player attempt to set a world record can be fascinating, but this growing scene has some drawbacks. The boundaries for discovering and comprehending the scene are lowering, and more people are becoming enamored by this culture. On an individual level, a growing number of successful YouTube creators including Summoning Salt (1.2 Million Subscribers), Karl Jobst (627k Subscribers), and Lowest Percent (300k Subscribers) explain speedrunning tricks and history in an entertaining documentary-style format. The organization Games Done Quick, which got its start in 2010, really helped shine a spotlight on the community while also raising large sums of money for various charities over the years. Members of the scene have also worked hard to increase its exposure. While this community has existed for decades, its popularity has steadily grown as more people learn its intricacies. AccelerationĪccording to a recent report from Stream Hatchet, the 2020 pandemic caused a sizable increase in people streaming and watching speedruns. Runs are often practiced and attempted during live streams which adds public performance as another difficulty. In the context of a long game or a one with multiple frame-perfect tricks, this effect is compounded. It is very common for the maneuvers necessary to compete for world-record pace to be very technically difficult to perform. Additionally, every game will have unique rules that define when the run timer starts and stops. Other varieties may require a player to finish a larger portion of the game and ban certain bugs.
Some categories involve simply getting to the credits as fast as possible while utilizing any options available. Players will pick a specific category and will grind on it for months hoping to cut off seconds from their personal best runs to get the fastest possible times.Įvery game will have different categories that dictate which exploits or shortcuts are allowed and what completion metrics are used. Different categories put different demands on players which dramatically change up the strategies required to compete for the ultimate goal, the world record. 4) Where Do You Land? Gotta Go Fast The Starting LineĪt its core, speedrunning a game is an attempt to get to the end of the game, usually determined by accessing the end-game credits screen, as quickly as possible.
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