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expandingman has Potatoman Seeks the Troof

May 24, 2015 @ 9:33pm

Speedrunning Potatoman

Is anyone else speedrunning this game? I have the #2 time right now, gunning for that #1 spot. I am streaming it on Twitch, too. twitch.tv/expandingman

I've found that jumping a lot helps because of the speed boost it gives you. Also I have found that certain spots you can blaze through and it's easier than waiting, such as the eggs in level 2.

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Pixeljam Games [developer] May 25, 2015 @ 9:44am

Nice work on the #2 spot! :)

Quint the Alligator Snapper has Potatoman Seeks the Troof

May 28, 2015 @ 2:12pm

How did I miss this thread?

Yeah, I'm in the #5 spot right now. I think I'm still there mostly because no one has challenged me.

I don't normally speedrun games, but this game is both (1) short enough to be relatively fun to speedrun and practice, and (2) actually rewards me in a permanent way for speedrunning it.

BTW expandingman I tried your bats strat and it worked the one time I tried it. I ragequit after getting ♥♥♥♥ RNG for like the entire rest of the run though so I'll come back to it later.

expandingman has Potatoman Seeks the Troof

May 28, 2015 @ 3:33pm

No problem. I'm with you - I don't speedrun like that, but it's so short that it got me hooked into it. I'd actually like to try speedrunning other games now, too. Thank you Pixeljam for indirectly taking more hours from my life :P

Glad to hear the bat thing worked...I think I spent like an hour on the bats the first time I played the game!

Pixeljam Games [developer] May 29, 2015 @ 8:13am

Glad we can help! Or not... :)

expandingman has Potatoman Seeks the Troof

May 30, 2015 @ 8:09am

Hehe :) Don't worry...I won't try to blame you when they come for me with a strait jacket.

expandingman has Potatoman Seeks the Troof

May 30, 2015 @ 2:37pm

I finally got my 5:23 run on Youtube, Quint. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZ9nf_T0RSw

expandingman has Potatoman Seeks the Troof

May 30, 2015 @ 11:49pm

Tonight I figured out that you can hop between sharks...you don't have to sit and wait for the cycle to finish. I was able to get 5:18 tonight saving time doing this.

Pixeljam Games [developer] Jun 2, 2015 @ 7:01am

Yeah, you should be able to clear the first 3 sets of sharks by just running forward and jumping at the right time. No need to wait :)

Pixeljam Games [developer] Jun 2, 2015 @ 7:01am

That was not intentional BTW, just a happy accident I suppose...

Quint the Alligator Snapper has Potatoman Seeks the Troof

Jun 2, 2015 @ 11:46am

Yeah, there's no ShaRkNG far as I know. Which is convenient. (They would be pretty obnoxious if they did, since they are fast.)

Last edited by Quint the Alligator Snapper; Jun 2, 2015 @ 11:59am

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expandingman has Potatoman Seeks the Troof

Jun 2, 2015 @ 1:10pm

Yeah, I'm glad I got that figured out.

I've been having a TON of trouble lately with rock avalanche. For one thing, the one bouncing rock seems to kill me quite often because its bounce changes at inopportune times. And also quite often, I can't run fast enough to clear the avalanche! It seemed like the faster I ran, the faster the avalanche would go, so a few times I attempted slowing down to clear the one rock sooner, and it seemed to slow the avalanche down. Jumping is out of the question due to the speed burst....it seemed to make the avalanche come fast and make it unclearable. I'll do some more trials of this when I get a chance and report back. It's frustrating because I don't recall ever having so much trouble with the avalanche until the past few days. It's been a run killer for sure.

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