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"Devs Play" S1E06 - Psychonauts "The SMK Speedrun" [1/1]

Name: "Devs Play" S1E06 - Psychonauts "The SMK Speedrun" [1/1]
Description: In the finale of Double Fine's Devs Play, speedrunner SMK demonstrates glitches and exploits that skip entire sections of Psychonauts while Tim Schafer and the dev team watch. The developers react to and discuss the bugs as they appear.

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Recommended as an entertaining, hilarious view of developers watching a speedrunner break their game.

In the finale of Double Fine's Devs Play, speedrunner SMK demonstrates glitches and exploits that skip entire sections of Psychonauts while Tim Schafer and the dev team watch. The developers react to and discuss the bugs as they appear.

Pull quote: “They had a speedrunner running their game in front of the development team which is hilarious.” (HN, 2019)

Also tagged: speedrunning, psychonauts, double fine, glitches, tim schafer, game development

What Hacker News said

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Strongly recommends franknine July 2019 under I thought I made a hard game and then speedrunners destroyed it

Speedrunner plays Psychonauts while the dev team watches, hilarious.

For people who like this post, I highly recommend "Devs Play" S1E06 - Psychonauts "The SMK Speedrun" by Double Fine Production: [this video] They had a speedrunner running their game in front of the development team which is hilarious.

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Recommends radnor March 2020 under Why Adventure Games Suck (1989)

Speedrunner plays Psychonauts with entire dev team watching.

You might be interested in watching this speedrunner go through Psychonauts while the entire dev team watches. I found it entertaining and much more fun than trying to play it myself. :) [this video]

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Recommends 8K832d7tNmiQ April 2022 under Overhauling Mario 64's code to reach 30 FPS and render 6x faster on N64 [video]

Speedrunner explains every exploit used to get fastest time to devs.

Psychonaut's dev reaction is my favorite one because they had one-to-one with a speedrunner talking about every game exploits used to get the fastest time possible.[1] [1]: [this video]

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