Crankycorvid

For my final project, I will be doing a presentation and demonstration in speedrunning. I've become interested in the technical and inner workings of the process, and how much people get invested in this sort of hobby. From the outside looking in it looks super difficult to get into, but if you pick games that have short run-times, it can actually get really addicting! I want to show how easy it is to get into doing runs, and how friendly the community is. There's tons of resources out there, free tools, and friendly people who are more than happy to help folks ease into learning how to speedrun any given game. Its so cool to see how whole communities form over not just speedrunning, but speedrunning a specific game. It's such an interesting niche of gaming culture. Not only that, but its interesting to watch how streaming has both helped and hindered the development of speedrunning as a whole. While it has brought people together and helped runners make an audience f...