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

Double Fine · demo · Watch on YouTube

Speedrunning, glitches & game hackingGame design

What it is

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.

Why Hacker News recommends it

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

  • 3 people recommended it
  • 3 different months
  • 1 strong recommendations
  • first 2019, last 2022

What HN commenters said

  1. “They had a speedrunner running their game in front of the development team which is hilarious.”

    Speedrunner plays Psychonauts while the dev team watches, hilarious.

    franknine, 2019-07 · Strong recommendation · in “I thought I made a hard game and then speedrunners destroyed it”

  2. “I found it entertaining and much more fun than trying to play it myself.”

    Speedrunner plays Psychonauts with entire dev team watching.

    radnor, 2020-03 · Recommendation · in “Why Adventure Games Suck (1989)”

  3. “Psychonaut's dev reaction is my favorite one”

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

    8K832d7tNmiQ, 2022-04 · Recommendation · in “Overhauling Mario 64's code to reach 30 FPS and render 6x faster on N64 [video]”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: psychonauts, double fine, glitches, tim schafer, game development

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