Prince of Persia in 15 Minutes

[davidn]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruw81L7aXCs

In tribute to the great people at AGDQ this year, here is the only game that I've ever made an attempt at speedrunning - it's Prince of Persia on the PC. I used to play this all the time a few years ago, trying to take seconds off my time... but I hadn't played it since 2006 and a whole plethora of new techniques have been discovered since then, making my time look unimpressive in comparison. So to do something a little different, here I attempt to get to the game's end in the practice mode, which reduces your timer to 15 minutes so that - theoretically - you can't complete the game.

This is without a doubt the most exhausting video I have ever produced.

Comments

[ravenworks.livejournal.com]

Oh, shoot! I didn't have the context to appreciate the nature of that teleport until I saw the map in that overflow bug explanation! I thought those two screens were horizontally adjacent, and you only 'teleported' up by a single tile!!

From what they're saying in the thread 'linked' in the image, it actually CAN be used other places -- it's just that none of those other places happen to be useful for speedruns, I guess?

And oh gosh, wow -- the door opening, that's scary even to read about! Making the race even more pulse-pounding :) (I almost feel like he shouldn't have saved it for only if you're that close... then again, I guess most folks WOULD be that close, and it being different with MORE time is the easter egg rather than the other way around!)

It feels so strange to me that he's not making games any more....! Even if he's also good at writing, and drawing, and his other passions, it's like.... there are other good writers and painters, and so few good programmers :D It's like one of the Beatles giving up music to get into gardening or something. (But, then again.... life is to be enjoyed! Here I am, so obsessing over productivity that I'm projecting it onto someone else and insisting that they should do what they're good at instead of what they love..... it's a hard mindset to shake sometimes!)