I talked back and forth about the events/gaming competitions post and how it would work. For the first event, we decided something simple was best. Tetris is pretty simple.
To compete:
You can play with an anonymous name here: https://tetr.io/
Post a comment with the score and a record of gameplay, preferably a link to a video on a platform like odysee vimeo. (I recommend playing a few times, then recording the replay of the top score with something like obs.)
Top score on two minute blitz mode by Friday (April 9) at midnight PST wins.
I am prepared to reward the winner of this competition with a no-shit-real-life-actual-prize-that-has-actual-monetary-value.
There's no end date in the original description, so I'd say lets end it on Friday at midnight PST. Then it'll be the weekend when people are seeing all the entries and getting a prize
There's no end date in the original description, so I'd say lets end it on Friday at midnight PST. Then it'll be the weekend when people are seeing all the entries and getting a prize
[Will edit my score in here once I get it.]16646 so far. I think I can do better though...Next competition idea:
I had a few ideas other than tetris that we could try next time:
Also, I'm not sure about one week, two weeks, or a month in between competitions.
Could you explain the appeal of speedrun competition? I struggle to find value in normal speedrunning outside of autism and dedication, neither being qualities that I think are suitable for the kind of competition I'd like to see.
Though I do sympathize with the speedrunner community's growing infestation of trannies, I think we'd be better off starting more basic in order to grow participants. I'm hesitant to reach out and engage in saving them anyway, as I don't understand them at all.
Fair. I mostly thought of speedruns because it allows you to compete in games that you otherwise wouldn't be able to, without the networking/server requirements needed for tournaments.
I could set up emulators and servers for games I own. If we did that, I feel like most of the speedrun options would be replaced with more tournament style competitions, based on some of the comments and votes here.
That's an interesting line of thought. Sort of like adding a versus mode to an otherwise single player game. I think something could come of that, but I'm not feeling very creative right now. I just keep thinking of the movie The Wizard, and how it was effectively a speedrun competition, but it circumvented normal speedrun procedure by denying the elements of knowledge/memorization to all participants. But as entertaining as that would be to a spectator, I can imagine some frustration from the players being thrown into a game that they may hate, and that's after getting all the participants to agree to gather for a mystery game session that will take hours of their time.
Worthwhile insight, though, thanks.
I never found the competition aspect of it particularly interesting. It's just "Huh, I didn't know you could do that" that is interesting to me. It's amazing how buggy a game can be when it seemed flawless when I played it.
This one still makes me laugh my ass off because of how much it fucked with the person playing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wf31vbZO8yo
It's not a speed run though. It's someone playing OOT blindfolded and he somehow stumbled onto something that shouldn't have even happened. I don't wanna spoil it if you wanna see for yourself. It happens within the first minute of the video. Keep watching and it only gets crazier.
Hm, that's an excellent point. Even if you deny a skill involved, there is clear informative value for viewers. Anyone finding glitches without relying on luck potentially has a marketable skill.
Though this sort of value could be shared without the video format (text faqs and forums often shared exploits), video can help explain complex bugs. I'm not sure how I'd explore the possibility of skills being involved - I'd wager a solid third are discovered by "just playing around".
The best competition I can imagine coming from it is a work competition to find the most bugs during a phase of testing/development. I participated in one of those once for an mmorpg, it was a lot of fun. Not simple to set up, of course.
Bloodborne 100% no hit no death blood lvl 1 Speedrun race.
Would anyone pass?
No.
Trackmania Nations Forever is a pretty easy to pick up racing game. And it's free and has a pretty strong replay/online play culture.
Oh yeah! That one's pretty good.
I love it.
So, I'm at 14,608. The bar is set! Very low.. I'll hook up a controller and figure out how to track it or something when I get a real score.I like time trials at Mario Kart too, even though I don't play it much I have the Wii U version. I'd try Pokemon too, but since I've done 5 minutes of Pokemon ever...well...I'll take my last place.
Edit: Up to
32,51441,432. Made an account and all this time so my profile: https://ch.tetr.io/u/cccp-ne I might not be able to top that, but we will see.Hahaha... I've tried 6 times and I can't break 14,048...
I think I like it better when I can take my time in Tetris. I can get to level 20 easily, but I take a long time doing it...
115495 and here's a .ttr replay that you can drag&drop onto tetr.io page because I didn't feel like doing video recording: https://www49.zippyshare.com/v/13IalaOZ/file.html
Had to load up the desktop app for some reason, but that was a pretty awesome play once I did.
https://tetr.io/#R:d1oNtb_zD
38998
Want to push a bit harder for second...
Update:
https://tetr.io/#R:hEj257NN9
46076
Okay, I think that's a decent score.
Oh hey, I didn't even know posting the replay link was an option. Neat!
I hope that's acceptable. Uploading videos is a bit of a pain with my internet connection.
I'd say it's acceptable. The point was to be able to see replays, and this works.
odysee has an extremely odd set of requirements. And verification steps. Don't know how long it will take to get verified, but here you go.
Final score: 38380
https://vimeo.com/532742252
Fair enough. We're pretty much on the honor system anyway.
time for me to shine since I play modern tetris sometimes
Didn't see this was closed yet, so gave it another go. Panic this time was deliberate to get the last long boy out that was sure to come.
Updated score: 72778
https://vimeo.com/532983980
60846https://vimeo.com/532778485Never heard of the site before, I might actually create an account in the future.
A lousy start with a soft drop and at around 30 seconds left I started to PANIK. First a hole in the stack, then analysis paralysis with the lookahead, then stopping the lookahead altogether, then absolute chaos. I feel like I could definitely do better, but I don't really want to grind at it.
yetOf the alt-video platforms, the only one that accepted my throwaway forwarder was Vimeo, so it's uploaded there. Protonmail TOS only allow one free account so I'm pretty disappointed in Bitchute. Saw someone else having trouble signing up on Odysee so I didn't bother.
Interesting. Odysee seemed to be the promising decentralized video alternative, but I guess Vimeo's working the best for now. I'll cross it out and put Vimeo then.
Also wow, nice score.
Nice score! I'll have to settle for at least 2nd for sure now.