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Everything about Speedrunning

Act of playing a video game as quickly as possible

Speedrunning is the act of playing a video game, or section of a video game, with the goal of completing it as fast as possible. Speedrunning often involves following planned routes, which may incorporate sequence breaking and exploit glitches that allow sections to be skipped or completed more quickly than intended. Tool-assisted speedrunning (TAS) is a subcategory of speedrunning that uses emulation software or additional tools to create a precisely controlled sequence of inputs or to slow down the game to perfect movements. Wikipedia →

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

  1. Read the overview: SpeedrunningA 5-minute orientation
  2. Skim a recent paper: The aesthetics of speedrunning: Performances in neo-baroque spaceInfluential work since 2022
  3. Pick up a classic book: SpeedrunThe most-reprinted book on the subject
  4. Read the landmark paper: Straight Paths Through Queer Walking Simulators: Wandering on Rails and Speedrunning in Gone HomeCited 19 times
  5. Go sideways: Speed Demos ArchiveA closely related topic
  6. Go sideways: Tool-assisted speedrunA closely related topic

📖 Definitions

Verb present participle and gerund of speedrun

Noun The practice of making speedruns.

🗂️ The subject at a glance

  1. History
  2. Methodology
  3. Community
  4. Cheating

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

🆕 Influential since 2022

📚 Books worth reading

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

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