My Highlights from AGDQ2020

I spent most of last week with the TV set to AGDQ. I enjoyed 90% of what I watched, the energy of the event is great. There's a fair amount of audience participation and memes, which some people think is beating a dead horse but I think is wonderful. Counting down to $3M raised towards the end was fantastic.

If you're at all interested in learning what speedrunning is, GDQ runs are a great place to start because there is commentary, usually geared towards people unfamiliar with the game or the run. They do their best to explain what they're doing and, if they can, why it works.

Some speedruns are just practicing the game a lot so that you can beat it really quickly. A lot of them also involve exploiting oversights in the game environment to clip through barriers and move ahead to other parts of the game. In 3D games this means they end up the dead spaces that exist behind the walls, which I find very visually challenging. These kinds of tricks also involve a lot of practice. I generally prefer watching the former kind, but the latter can also be fun!

There may be a part 2 to this once I catch up on some runs I missed. The archive of runs from this AGDQ can be found on GDQ Vods here.

( Cut for length. Links to runs I enjoyed below. )