MOSTGAMES UPDATE 10/03/16

MOSTGAMES PROJECT
Update 10/03/16

A bit of a slower week because I got hung up on a few games trying to get times I was really proud of. I feel like if a game either has a larger leaderboard (5+) or no leaderboard, it might take me longer because I either have to compete against people who took the game really seriously, or I have to compete against my own metric of "good enough". Both are fairly high standards for running a game over the course of a few days.

I think I am going to try to line up a few Halloween-appropriate games for October. Games like Monster Party, Monster in my Pocket, Nightmare on Elm Street, Splatterhouse Wanpakku Graffiti, things like that. If you have any suggestions, tweet them at me and I will definitely consider them. Toward the end of October, I will try to make some sort of schedule for specific games in general so that people who have either donated for a game or are looking forward to a game will be able to keep track of when it is happening. Probably a spreadsheet that I work through in order.

Standings:
Jumpyluff       179 (+3)
Dugongue        145 (+0)
authorblues     125 (+3) (+1 waiting on leaderboard)
Deln            99 (+0)
Darko           79 (+3)
PrinceRallis    63 (+3)
Racingmonster   63 (+0)
hocinehocine    62 (+5) the literal madman has returned

Games added this week:
1: Wurm: Journey to the Center of the Earth (1st, beating old murphagator WR)
==>  https://www.speedrun.com/run/9yoxx8jy
2: Spelunker (1985, NES) (3rd, really want to improve this)
==>  https://www.speedrun.com/run/9meggd8y
3: Mickey Mousecapade (casual 9:31 got me 9th, plan to improve this week)
==>  https://www.speedrun.com/run/pzgoo1nm
4: Darkman (no leaderboard, so uncontested 1st)
==>  https://www.twitch.tv/authorblues/v/92559233

SPECIFIC GAME INFO:

Spelunker is a really great speedgame, and I really want to bring my time down. I'm 2 seconds off 2nd place and about 30 seconds off WR. I don't know if I'll go for WR, but getting better at the game would be nice. It is extremely challenging and extremely punishing, and my time (6:46) was the result of 100s of resets over the course of a few nights.

WURM is a cool game, everybody should play it (or speedrun it). My WR would be pretty good, but there was a random, inexplicable death in the last stage (check the VOD if you don't believe me) that lost me about 20 seconds, so the run is improvable. Overall, A+ game.

Darkman ate up several days (and a good bit of my sanity). This game is deceptive. It looks like a bad game that gets better once you learn how to control it better, that becomes bad again when you try to optimize the speedrun. I had one goal -- a deathless run -- but decided that it didn't seem like it was gonna happen after doing 8 hours of runs on Sunday.

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I do want to say thank you to all of you who have been supporting me during this project. I have been getting a consistent 30+ viewers, often much more, which is better than my average for random/bad games. Many of you have been hanging out in my channel and encouraging me, or have given me encouragement outside of my chat, and I just want you to know that it makes a world of difference, especially when I am getting frustrated or discouraged. I appreciate your support so much.

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