Speedrunning, the Glossary
Speedrunning is the act of playing a video game, or section of a video game, with the goal of completing it as fast as possible.[1]
Table of Contents
81 relations: Arbitrary code execution, Ars Technica, Audio forensics, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Barnstorming (video game), Boing Boing, Bulletin board system, Celeste (video game), Closing credits, Clustertruck, Counter-Strike (video game), COVID-19 pandemic, Cutscene, Danmarks Designskole, David Crane (programmer), Discord, Donkey Kong high score competition, Doom (1993 video game), Doom (franchise), Dragster (video game), Dream (YouTuber), Edge (magazine), Emulator, ESPN, Esports, European Speedrunner Assembly, File Transfer Protocol, Filename extension, Game replay, Games Done Quick, GameShark, Gaming convention, Glitch, Guinness World Records, Hex editor, Id Software, Instant camera, Internet, Internet forum, John Romero, Karl Jobst, Kotaku, LGBT community, Live streaming, Matt Parker, Médecins Sans Frontières, McFarland & Company, Metroid Prime, Minecraft, Names of large numbers, ... Expand index (31 more) »
- Emergent gameplay
Arbitrary code execution
In computer security, arbitrary code execution (ACE) is an attacker's ability to run any commands or code of the attacker's choice on a target machine or in a target process.
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Ars Technica
Ars Technica is a website covering news and opinions in technology, science, politics, and society, created by Ken Fisher and Jon Stokes in 1998.
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Audio forensics
Audio forensics is the field of forensic science relating to the acquisition, analysis, and evaluation of sound recordings that may ultimately be presented as admissible evidence in a court of law or some other official venue.
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), is the national broadcaster of Australia.
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Barnstorming (video game)
Barnstorming is an Atari 2600 video game designed by Steve Cartwright and published by Activision in 1982.
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Boing Boing
Boing Boing is a website, first established as a zine in 1988, later becoming a group blog.
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Bulletin board system
A bulletin board system (BBS), also called a computer bulletin board service (CBBS), was a computer server running software that allowed users to connect to the system using a terminal program.
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Celeste (video game)
Celeste is a 2018 platform game developed and published by indie studio Maddy Makes Games.
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Closing credits
Closing credits, end credits and end titles are a list of the cast and crew of a particular motion picture, television show, and video game.
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Clustertruck
Clustertruck is a 2016 platformer game developed by the Swedish independent studio Landfall Games and published by tinyBuild.
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Counter-Strike (video game)
Counter-Strike (also known as Half-Life: Counter-Strike or Counter-Strike 1.6) is a tactical first-person shooter game developed by Valve.
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COVID-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic (also known as the coronavirus pandemic), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), began with an outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, in December 2019.
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Cutscene
A cutscene or event scene (sometimes in-game cinematic or in-game movie) is a sequence in a video game that is not interactive, interrupting the gameplay. Speedrunning and cutscene are video game terminology.
Danmarks Designskole
The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Design, more commonly known as the Danish Design School (Danish: Danmarks Designskole. often abbreviated as DKDS) is an institution of higher education in Copenhagen, Denmark, offering a five-year design education consisting of a three-year Bachelor programme and a two-year Master in design as well as conducting research within the fields of arts, crafts and design.
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David Crane (programmer)
David Crane (born in Nappanee, Indiana, United States) is an American video game designer and programmer.
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Discord
Discord is an instant messaging and VoIP social platform which allows communication through voice calls, video calls, text messaging, and media.
Donkey Kong high score competition
Players have competed for the highest score for the video game Donkey Kong since its release in 1981.
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Doom (1993 video game)
Doom is a first-person shooter game developed and published by id Software.
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Doom (franchise)
Doom (stylized as DOOM) is an American media franchise created by John Carmack, John Romero, Adrian Carmack, Kevin Cloud, and Tom Hall.
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Dragster (video game)
Dragster, released in 1980 for the Atari Video Computer System, is one of the first video games developed by Activision.
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Dream (YouTuber)
Clay (born August 12, 1999), known by his online alias Dream, is an American YouTuber, Twitch streamer and singer who is known primarily for creating Minecraft content.
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Edge (magazine)
Edge is a multi-format video game magazine published by Future plc.
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Emulator
In computing, an emulator is hardware or software that enables one computer system (called the host) to behave like another computer system (called the guest).
ESPN
ESPN (an abbreviation of its original name, the Entertainment and Sports Programming Network) is an American international basic cable sports channel owned by The Walt Disney Company (80% and operational control) and Hearst Communications (20%) through the joint venture ESPN Inc. The company was founded in 1979 by Bill Rasmussen, Scott Rasmussen and Ed Eagan.
Esports
Esports, short for electronic sports, is a form of competition using video games.
European Speedrunner Assembly
European Speedrunner Assembly (abbreviated to ESA), formerly European Speedster Assembly, is a semi-annual video game speedrunning charity marathon held in Sweden.
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File Transfer Protocol
The File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is a standard communication protocol used for the transfer of computer files from a server to a client on a computer network.
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Filename extension
A filename extension, file name extension or file extension is a suffix to the name of a computer file (for example,.txt,.docx,.md).
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Game replay
A game replay, also known as a demo, is a form of user-generated content.
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Games Done Quick
Games Done Quick (GDQ) is a semiannual video game speedrun charity marathon held in the United States, originally organized by the Speed Demos Archive and SpeedRunsLive communities.
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GameShark
GameShark is the brand name of a line of video game cheat cartridges and other products for a variety of console video game systems and Windows-based computers.
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Gaming convention
A gaming convention is a gathering centered on role-playing games, collectible card games, miniatures wargames, board games, video games, or other types of games.
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Glitch
A glitch is a short-lived technical fault, such as a transient one that corrects itself, making it difficult to troubleshoot.
Guinness World Records
Guinness World Records, known from its inception in 1955 until 1999 as The Guinness Book of Records and in previous United States editions as The Guinness Book of World Records, is a British reference book published annually, listing world records both of human achievements and the extremes of the natural world.
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Hex editor
A hex editor (or binary file editor or byte editor) is a computer program that allows for manipulation of the fundamental binary data that constitutes a computer file.
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Id Software
id Software LLC is an American video game developer based in Richardson, Texas.
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Instant camera
An instant camera is a camera which uses self-developing film to create a chemically developed print shortly after taking the picture.
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Internet
The Internet (or internet) is the global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to communicate between networks and devices.
Internet forum
An Internet forum, or message board, is an online discussion site where people can hold conversations in the form of posted messages.
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John Romero
Alfonso John Romero (born October 28, 1967) is an American director, designer, programmer and developer in the video game industry.
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Karl Jobst
Karl Jobst (born 7 February 1986) is an Australian ''GoldenEye 007'' and Perfect Dark speedrunner, YouTuber, and investigative journalist whose work has primarily focused on exposing cheating and fraud in the gaming community.
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Kotaku
Kotaku is a video game website and blog that was originally launched in 2004 as part of the Gawker Media network.
The LGBT community (also known as the LGBTQ+ community, LGBTQIA+ community, GLBT community, or queer community) is a loosely defined grouping of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals united by a common culture and social movements.
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Live streaming
Livestreaming, live-streaming, or live streaming is the streaming of video or audio in real time or near real time.
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Matt Parker
Matthew Thomas Parker (born 22 December 1980) is an Australian recreational mathematician, author, comedian, YouTube personality and science communicator based in the United Kingdom.
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Médecins Sans Frontières
italic (MSF; pronounced), also known as Doctors Without Borders, is a charity that provides humanitarian medical care. It is a non-governmental organisation (NGO) of French origin known for its projects in conflict zones and in countries affected by endemic diseases.
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McFarland & Company
McFarland & Company, Inc., is an American independent book publisher based in Jefferson, North Carolina, that specializes in academic and reference works, as well as general-interest adult nonfiction.
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Metroid Prime
Metroid Prime is a 2002 action-adventure game developed by Retro Studios and published by Nintendo for the GameCube.
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Minecraft
Minecraft is a 2011 sandbox game developed and published by Mojang Studios.
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Names of large numbers
Two naming scales for large numbers have been used in English and other European languages since the early modern era: the long and short scales.
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Nintendo World Championships
The Nintendo World Championships (NWC) is a nationwide video game competition series, organized by Nintendo of America at no particular interval.
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Numberphile
Numberphile is an educational YouTube channel featuring videos that explore topics from a variety of fields of mathematics.
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An online community, also called an internet community or web community, is a community whose members interact with each other primarily via the Internet.
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Quake (video game)
Quake is a first-person shooter game developed by id Software and published by GT Interactive.
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Quake done Quick
Quake done Quick is a series of collaborative speedruns and machinima movies in which the video game ''Quake'', its mission packs, and related games are completed as quickly as possible without the use of cheats.
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Random number generation
Random number generation is a process by which, often by means of a random number generator (RNG), a sequence of numbers or symbols that cannot be reasonably predicted better than by random chance is generated.
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ROM hacking
ROM hacking (short for Read-only memory hacking) is the process of modifying a ROM image or ROM file of a video game to alter the game's graphics, dialogue, levels, gameplay, and/or other elements.
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Running with Speed
Running with Speed is a 2023 documentary film about speedrunning directed by Patrick Lope and Nicholas Mross. It was written by Lope, Mross, and Summoning Salt, the latter of which also narrated the documentary.
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Sequence breaking
In computer and video games, sequence breaking is the act of performing actions or obtaining items out of the intended linear order or of skipping "required" actions or items entirely. Speedrunning and sequence breaking are Emergent gameplay.
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Skype
Skype is a proprietary telecommunications application operated by Skype Technologies, a division of Microsoft, best known for VoIP-based videotelephony, videoconferencing and voice calls.
Speed Demos Archive
Speed Demos Archive (SDA) is a website dedicated to video game speedruns.
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Strafing (video games)
Strafing in video games is a maneuver which involves moving a controlled character or entity sideways relative to the direction it is facing. Speedrunning and Strafing (video games) are video game terminology.
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Subculture
A subculture is a group of people within a cultural society that differentiates itself from the conservative and standard values to which it belongs, often maintaining some of its founding principles.
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Super Mario 64
Super Mario 64 is a 1996 platform game developed and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo 64.
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Super Mario Bros.
is a platform game developed and published in 1985 by Nintendo for the Famicom in Japan and for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) in North America.
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Super Mario Bros. 3
Super Mario Bros.
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Super Mario Odyssey
is a 2017 platform game developed and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Switch.
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Super Metroid
is a 1994 action-adventure game developed by Nintendo and Intelligent Systems and published by Nintendo for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System.
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TASBot
TASBot is a tool-assisted speedrun mascot created in 2013, developed by a team led by dwangoAC.
Team Fortress Classic
Team Fortress Classic is a first-person shooter game developed by Valve and published by Sierra Studios.
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Todd Rogers (gamer)
Todd Rogers (born 1967) is an American video game player who has been described as the first professional video game player.
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A tool-assisted speedrun or tool-assisted superplay (TAS) is generally defined as a speedrun or playthrough composed of precise inputs recorded with tools such as video game emulators. Speedrunning and tool-assisted speedrun are video game terminology.
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Twin Galaxies
Twin Galaxies is a social media platform and video game database.
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Twitch (service)
Twitch is an American video live-streaming service that focuses on video game live streaming, including broadcasts of esports competitions, in addition to offering music broadcasts, creative content, and "in real life" streams.
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University of Waterloo
The University of Waterloo (UWaterloo, UW, or Waterloo) is a public research university with a main campus in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
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Video game
A video game or computer game is an electronic game that involves interaction with a user interface or input device (such as a joystick, controller, keyboard, or motion sensing device) to generate visual feedback from a display device, most commonly shown in a video format on a television set, computer monitor, flat-panel display or touchscreen on handheld devices, or a virtual reality headset.
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Wired (magazine)
Wired (stylized in all caps) is a monthly American magazine, published in print and online editions, that focuses on how emerging technologies affect culture, the economy, and politics.
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WMOR-TV
WMOR-TV (channel 32) is an independent television station licensed to Lakeland, Florida, United States, serving the Tampa Bay area.
Wolfenstein 3D
Wolfenstein 3D is a first-person shooter video game developed by id Software and published by Apogee Software and FormGen.
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YouTube
YouTube is an American online video sharing platform owned by Google.
1Up Network
1Up.com was an American entertainment website that focused on video games.
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See also
Emergent gameplay
- Blocksworld
- Emergent gameplay
- Game Genie
- Interactive storytelling
- Machinima
- MissingNo.
- Nonlinear gameplay
- Open world
- Sandbox game
- Sequence breaking
- Speedrunning
- Virtual crime
- Virtual economy
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speedrunning
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