speedrunning

Roguelikes embrace repetition through procedural generation. Hades perfected the formula: meaningful rewards across runs, beautiful presentation, compelling narrative.

Completing a 50-hour game in 20 minutes sounds impossible, but speedrunners do it by exploiting the fundamental gap between what a game looks like and how it actually works in memory. Understanding how glitches work is essentially a course in low-level computer science.

Speedrunning transformed gaming into competitive sport. By breaking games apart, finding exploits, and optimizing movement, speedrunners redefined what games could be.