#agdq2014

This is a tool-assisted speedrun of Super Mario World with interesting results.

Some background:

A speedrun is where a player will play through a game as quickly as possible, often by exploiting glitches to skip parts of or entire levels.

Awesome Games Done Quick (AGDQ) is a festival where said speedruns are performed live on actual hardware in order to raise money for charity.

A tool-assisted speedrun (TAS) is where emulator tools such as frame-by-frame recording are used to record a series of controller presses that are often not physically possible. Instead of starting the game and playing through with a controller, a TAS is essentially "power on the console, then press 'play' on the controller recording."

Usually a TAS has a character run through walls and do other crazy tricks that, while impossible for a human to perform with a normal controller, are still within the normal setting for the game.

Further exploring Reactive vs Planned Gameplay. New at GI. #gamedesign #gamedev #gaming #shovelknight #metroid

Previous posts in the Series Teaching the Player

And a link to the part 1

Running for Speed

The Speed Running community is a fantastic example of people who take every opportunity to transition all games from a Reaction to Planned Gameplay. They approach every game with its predefined rules and regardless of how well a game teaches you a mechanic, the speed runners put in the time to perfect the…

Final Doom: Plutonia speedrun by Dime (45:29). This took place in this year's Awesome Games Done Quick a month and something ago. Very, very entertaining, to say the least. Also there was a donation incentive to play Go 2 It which got met, so you might want to stay after Dime finishes Plutonia. There's a couple of technical difficulties at the beginning and before the start of the Go 2 It challenge so you might want to take note of that