MOSTGAMES UPDATE 10/24/16

MOSTGAMES PROJECT
Update 10/24/16

Ran two games this week that I'm really thrilled with (and a handful of other games as well). People have been recommending games for me on my discord server (discord.authorblu.es) and I really enjoy it. Even if 90% of them don't work out, I love becoming aware of more games. This has been an awesome experience for learning more about retro video games.

Standings:
Jumpyluff       187 (+1)
Dugongue        152 (+1)
authorblues     138 (+4) (+1 awaiting leaderboard)
Deln            99 (±0)
Darko           86 (+3)
hocinehocine    69 (±0)
PrinceRallis    67 (±0)
Racingmonster   66 (±0)

Games added this week:
-: Castlequest (improved my time, but 3rd after nescardinality improved his)
==>  http://www.speedrun.com/run/0zn90wvy
1: Popeye (13th, this is a bad video game)
==>  http://www.speedrun.com/run/1zxjoqqy
2: Fatty Bear's Fun Pack (1st in all categories)
==>  http://www.speedrun.com/run/dy4j7qky (Reversi Easy, 0:27)
==>  http://www.speedrun.com/run/8m7e7n0z (Lines and Boxes Easy, 2:14)
==>  http://www.speedrun.com/run/9mr0nv2m (Go Fish Easy, 3:21)
3: Othello (1st, NES Level 1)
==>  http://www.speedrun.com/run/emko5pvz
4: Times of Lore (1st)
==>  http://www.speedrun.com/run/7z08p4em (18:50, sum of best 18:30)
5: Jurassic Park Part 2: The Chaos Continues (GB, 1st)
==>  http://www.speedrun.com/run/dy4jq6ny

SPECIFIC GAME INFO:

Times of Lore is perhaps the coolest run I've learned yet for mostgames, and I strongly recommend other people to give it a shot. A really cool cross between Zelda 1 and Ultima that ends up being a really short speedrun that is pretty fun to try to optimize. Big thanks to kruskader for all the hard work he put into the game originally, and with a little bit of rerouting, he and I have together pushed the game down from 22:xx to 18:50/19:12 respectively.

Jurassic Park 2 GB is also a surprisingly cool speedrun, which brings the total number of good Jurassic Park games to two: this one and Trespasser. I will continue to work on this one if starvinstruthers or anyone else beats my time. Looking for some bop wars.

I don't really have any intention of improving Castlequest further. The game is a *really* good run, and I'd love to see some of my friends like Jeffrosledger or Toad or Whitehat do runs of this, but it can be a bit frustrating to optimize and I don't want to work on it forever. I'd honestly give the game a 8/10, but the speedrun is just pretty brutal.

All the runners on the Othello leaderboard used the same route/game, but I just tried the TAS route and I saved time so I mean, no big deal. It's a silly speedrun. Here we are. I had to re-time the whole leaderboard to break the 4 way tie for 1st, but getting arbitrary world records is literally the most important thing in the world.

Fatty Bear's Fun Pack started because I was playing around with Othello games, and I figured I could trick the game into giving up a quick match, so I did offline attempts for a few hours trying to force the AI to mess up, and I eventually got a game I was happy with. When mathgrant saw that I had done that, he donated for me to play the other games as well, which I figured why not. The AI is pretty stupid in Lines and Boxes, so I think the only way to improve it is to spam clicks faster, so I don't care. Getting a better time in Go Fish is just pure luck. I did enough games of it to get a time I didn't hate.

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