Ludum Dare #41compo

RPGs Done Quick

by rhythmlynx

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.57

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.56

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.48

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.23

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.63

Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.75

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.52

You are at a speedrun event. You're trying to complete an RPG as quickly as possible, skipping as much as you can.

Z to talk, arrow keys to move, enter to pause. You can reset from the pause menu.

Hint: quests are slow, you want to go fast.

My personal best is 1:16.9 but it could be done faster. Post your best time in the comments!

~~Speedrun trolls~~ Features include:
- Branching, looping dialog
- Really useful and talkative NPCs
- Randomly moving enemies
- An actual troll

Tags: #exploration, #fantasy, #funny, #parody, #pico-8, #speedrun, #time attack

Genres: role playing

Tools: PICO-8

Comments20

spelos23 Apr 2018, 13:03

Great idea with making the goal be the actual speedrunning. Very fun! Great job!

tipyx23 Apr 2018, 17:43

I think you hold a good principle (Should I read or skip the text ? Auto fight (chance of dying) or choose my attack (more sure but more slow). Good job :)

F1Krazy23 Apr 2018, 19:07

A great idea, and well-executed. I love the self-aware nature of the game, how it knows it's slowing you down and tripping you up and takes pride in it. I might give it a few more goes just to see how fast it's possible to finish the game if you know what you're doing beforehand.

WongKongPhooey23 Apr 2018, 21:04

Really fun game! Spent ages playing this, almost a shame to speedrun it as there is plenty of detail and polish that has gone into it. Well done!

CameronJSamuels23 Apr 2018, 22:22

Great game. The graphics are nice and the gameplay is fun. Good job.

JCMonkey23 Apr 2018, 22:57

this was pretty fun, i had a chuckle at the speed run stuff :D

Angelbait23 Apr 2018, 23:04

Oh yeah the speedrun concept was hilarious and I wanted to set a PB so bad. Thanks for the game!

GoodKenneth23 Apr 2018, 23:23

Great replay value :)

Wish there was a hotkey to reset.

rhythmlynxauthor23 Apr 2018, 23:28

@GoodKenneth great time! You actually _have_ set a new world record. You can reset through the PICO-8 pause menu accessed with Enter (I will add this to the description)

MarkoPoloDev24 Apr 2018, 01:26

And here I was so proud of myself. Makes me feel just like a real speedrunner, never as good as the pros :smile:

Well done!

lonewookie24 Apr 2018, 03:34

Great system! I killed 11 rats in 5 minute and still didn't get a reward so I might be doing something wrong. The battle system is slick though! Very smooth overworld, levels and battles! Well done!

RockhopperGames24 Apr 2018, 14:05

It's a funny little game you've made here, though the amount of time I spent trying to vibrate through the gate guard left me a little disappointed there weren't more glitches to exploit. I guess pico8 is a bit too robust for that though.

And sharing my pb, to get into the top 3~

dragonxvi24 Apr 2018, 19:06

You're a monster for putting the default responses on decline/repeat :p You know that right?
Fun little game!

KunoNoOni25 Apr 2018, 00:00

2:20.1. :sad: this was my best after several attempts, guess I'm not cut out for speedrunning :wink: pretty solid game, wish it had sound though.

zealous-coder25 Apr 2018, 01:50

Nicely done but man I cannot even get better than 2:26

arzi25 Apr 2018, 16:32

I'm not much into the speedrunning stuff, but it also worked well as an rpg deconstruction/parody :)

HPMNK27 Apr 2018, 00:17

Hahahaha super funny concept. I loved how you made quest long and laborious, just to loose players who don't understand the real concept. Had a hard time on that dark romm x___x

I'm glad to see more and more Pioo 8 games appearing on game jams.

huminaboz30 Apr 2018, 04:48

I felt like I was being punished at first, but then speedrunning sense kicked in and saw the time savers. Satisfying to win and think about how you could have done it faster. You highlighted the key feel of speedrunning, good job.

Jimbly3 May 2018, 17:00

Mine time was a little over 10 minutes, however I did the whole rat quest (no rewards! :( ) first before figuring out what I should be doing ^_^. I really like being told I set a world record at the end, though clearly I didn't ;).

That was really well done, great set of content for a compo game, and looks great, a little sound would have gone a long way, I think.

nilstastic3 May 2018, 18:45

Ah this looked and played great. A good sense of humor as well made the game really enjoyable. Good work!