You watched AGDQ or watched streamers on Twitch which are running after some clock in a game and thought "Hey Iwant to do that too"?
Then, this guide is for you.
In this Video I'll try to explain you speedrunning as easy as possible
Step 1: Pick a game
The most important desicion is to pick a game
Pick your game wisley because you really have to learn your game
But also: Have fun running your game
Dont choose a game you absolutely hate because that makes no sense
You have to become a unit with your game
You must deal intensively with it
Worst case: You have to concentrate on your run for a couple of hours
If you don't now which game you want to run first, I recommend watching (A)GDQ
There are a couple of games to choose from and maybe there is a game you want to run
If you want to be good at something you have to practice - Speedrunning is no exception to that
I recommend watching runs of the game you want to run on YouTube - You'll see what strategies are used in the game
Sometimes there are hand-written guides on speedrun.com
You picked your game - Now pick a category
Let's look at James Bond 007: Nightfire for example
It's divided into several categories
Every Category got a seperate ruleset
In the ruleset you'll find everything you need for the run
For example: Starting the timer, stopping the timer
You can look it up in the rules of every game/category
After research you got your game and category and you really want to start, right?
S T O P !
Before you are starting, you need the right equipment
The following are no requirements but some recommended stuff
If you are playing with a controller, make sure it works fine.  Bad equipment can result in losing a run.
Make sure your game runs smooth and without any problems
Is your WiFi working?
When you stream goes offline in the middle of the run it can happen that your potential World Record run isn't valid
Are you running on console?
Get a capture card to stream your console
Are your running on Emulator?
Make sure that your PC can handle the Emu AND the Streaming without framedrops
You cant really have a time when you got no time display
And I assume that you dont want to time your run afterwards
I recommend LiveSplit as a timer
Just paste your game and category in there and prepare your splits
LiveSplit is very Customizable - Just configure your timer how you want it
It would take too long to explain everything but I'm sure you can get into it pretty fast
After the preperation process is done, you can start running
Make notes about some parts of your game and practice
Try to pull of the skips and glitches in your game and try to learn your lessons after every run
Just try to get something positive out of every fail
Take brakes after every fail to avoid frustration
Try some risky stuff - Things that no one tried before - maybe you can save some seconds
And MAYBE you can change the general route of the run
Take brakes to calm down
When you're resetting for the 5000th time - It can be hard to still enjoy the game
Take breaks
You also can learn something for the run when you are playing it casual without pressure
Step 8 - Talk to people
There are some other people who run the game you run
Try to contact other people and you can work together on some stuff
You could find new things together
And thats basic speedrunning
Huge shoutouts to PulseEffects and Keysstonelight for their footage permission (Also to Lblueeagle)
And my biggest shoutout goes out to OllieNK
He gave the last "asskick" to start with speedrunning
With his Colo resets Kappa ;D
He really motivated me to keep going and I'm working on a speedrun script (Notes, etc.)
HUGE Thanks to you Ollie
 
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