The number of runs uploaded to the platform reflects the area’s growing appeal. Some players cheat by stitching together runs played separately, which gets them kicked off the platform, but the community is learning to self-regulate and expose fraud. The site allows speedrunners to upload videos of their runs and customise leader boards. Speedrunning platform, launched in 2014, grew 21 per cent from 600,000 registered users last November to 728,000 in May, with expertise in Europe (Germany and Sweden) and across Asia. Speedrunning was big even before the pandemic thanks to game streaming platforms like Twitch, but it got a boost in 2020. Many returned to the nostalgia of their childhood as Retro-games made a comeback, and speedrunners were playing these old classics in online gaming channels. Speedrunning took off during lockdown when in-person sports were banned and people were drawn to new forms of esports. The winner of a competition or world record holder “gets from point A, at the beginning of the game to point B, at the end of the game, in the shortest amount of time possible”, he explains. The name is the game, says Matt Harris at UK Speedrunning Marathon (UKSM), a not-for-profit organisation running competition events for charity. It’s called Speedrunning and it’s growing fast. These online personalities attract hundreds of thousands of subscribers, but the price is spending years in front of their screens, practising the same old video games popular in the late 1990s, again and again. Some break world records, get famous and even make a living from it. Here's a Half-Life: Alyx player crawling beneath levels in VR at SGDQ last year.For a new generation of gamers, it's no longer enough to make it through all the levels or to beat their best score. Now it’s about consistency, strategic planning and, above all, technical skill – mostly in the simpler, older games.
Speedrunning continues to be fascinating. As a collective though, speedrunners over the years have certainly put their own massive total of hours into the game, just in a pretty different way than the developers would have. It's just strange to think of a second group of people coming in and living with it like that."Ĭertainly not all Portal speedrunners have been working with the same game since it launched 14 years ago. "I imagine you had to play Portal as much as we did to get this good at doing the speedrunning. "We lived with Portal so intensely for so long," he says of the development process. Wolpaw speaks up with the realization that I think must be one a lot of developers experience when seeing the wild things that speedrunners do with their games. In all though, it does remind me of other speedrunning glitches I've seen performed that involve taking advantage of collision objects that aren't loaded while a player is far away from them. Valve's developers follow along with the more technical side of the explanation, it sounds, better than I can. There have been probably multiple hundreds of thousands of words written about implications of the save loading." "This is the thing that short papers have been written on. "That is pretty much the most broken thing in both of these categories," CantEven says. CantEven also explains how all of the portals he fires during his first speedrun appear to be quick, random firing but are actually extremely calculated moves.
It's a method for breaking collision with walls by tricking the game into misunderstanding where you're actually standing. In particular, CantEven explains one big trick that Portal speedrunners refer to as "save glitch". They've gotten together CantEven with Valve writer Erik Wolpaw, programmer Jeep Barnett, and programmer Garret Rickey. Getting developers to react to speedruns is a thing that IGN put together regularly, which is where this chat takes place. Three of them recently got to have a chat with Portal speedrunner "CantEven" to ask about extremely calculated trick shots, weird save glitches, and all the other things that game developers don't always know about their own games. It's always a treat to hear developers being equally astounded though, and Valve's developers are no exception. I'm constantly in awe of the wild tricks that speedrunners discover in just about any game they set their collective minds to.
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