Frosty Fight Club is at it again! This will be a summer filled with Speed and Running! In 4 events players can qualify for the Grand Championships in September.

Here is a quick rundown of the events, more details follow below!


Summer OPEN League
(Top 12 can participate in SPEEDtember 2024)
A once a month tournament to earn LEAGUE POINTS to earn your way into SPEEDtember Grand Championship 2024 beginning September 1st 2024 and ending September 29th with the crowning of the new SPEEDtember 2024 Grand Champion.
Sign up here!
Leaderboards here!

ELO Summer Seasons
(Top 12 can participate in SPEEDtember 2024)
The ELO season is back! It has been a long time coming since the legendary ELO Christmas season back in 2019! For those new here, an ELO season is where the tradional ranking points system will be replaced for a few months with an ELO style rating system. You can earn the summer season ELO badges during this time, and this time only!
To join simply play ranked matches between May 1st 2024 and September 1st 2024.

Summer Learners League
(32 players accepted, Top 4 can participate in SPEEDtember 2024)
A special league for players who are ranked silver or under, have 1200 hours or less in the game generally, are open to having their footage reviewed by veteran players, and are open to coaching from players above their current experience level. This league will have a once a month tournament to see how the players are progressing and they can earn a badge for participating through the entire season and showing meaningful progress. Also, these players can earn their way into SPEEDtember 2024 by being in the top 4 of Learners League points wise at the end of the season.
Sign up here!

Wildcard Tournament
(Top 4 can participate in SPEEDtember 2024)
This tournament acts as the last chance qualifier for any and all players who are wanting to make it into this year's edition of SPEEDtember 2024. This will be a double elimination tournament with no player cap or restriction. If you make it into the Top 4 in this tournament, youll qualify for SPEEDtember 2024.
Signup will follow later!

Grand Championships
At the end of August, SPEEDtember 2024 will kick off with a multi stage tournament where the top 32 players will be seeded into groups of 8 based on their skill level.

Each group will face off until there are only two left. The format will be double elimination. If you make it into the top 2 then youll qualify for the final group which will seed based on your position from the group stage. If you qualify in winners, then youll stay in winners. If you qualify in losers then youll remain in losers.

SPEEDtember Day 1 will be on September 1st at 11 am
SPEEDtember Day 2 will be on September 15th at 11 am

The SPEEDtember Grand Championship will take place on September 29th.
The top 8 from the group stage will face off until we crown a new champion of SPEEDtember.

There will be some very important announcements upcoming each month during the season. Please be mindful of this and lets get hype for the FUTURE of SPEEDRUNNERS!!

It has been a long while since the last King of Speed has been crowned. After this weekend we may have a new King in town. The live stream starts March 30th, 2024 11am PST and March 31st, 2024 2pm PST.

Check the stream here: https://www.twitch.tv/frostyfightclub

This is one for the enthusiasts.
You can now add the +dumpstats launch option.
This will create a json formatted file with game stats every time you run the game.
The files will be written to %documents%/SavedGames/SpeedRunners/CEngineStorage/AllPlayers/Stats

If you have suggestions, please leave them in the comments here. If there is enough interest for new stat features a may add them.

The mapmaker contest at Frosty Fight Club has come to a close, drawing in steamhappythousandsUnic of votes! The top three levels were neck and neck in ranking, showcasing exceptional quality. As a result, we've chosen to include all three on the curated workshop list. Without further ado, here are the three deserving winners.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3095903531
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2376184180
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3157484074

Big thanks to TheSilentChaos for organizing this event!

Enjoy!

Hi,
This has been the first update since 2020 if we're not counting a small bug fix from last year.
There are mostly some changes to make the game more future proof. Here is the full change list.

• Fixed last Steam Deck compatibility issue (on-screen keyboard).
  
• Moved from XNA to FNA on Windows.
  
• Improved level select menu performance in cases of large numbers of workshop levels.
  
• Improved loading times.
  
• Bug fix where the first time play tutorial popup was not controllable by gamepad.
  
• Updated Velocity badge.
  

[h2]Hello, SpeedRunners fans![/h2]
The Steam Game Festival (Autumn Edition) has just started, and tinyBuild is interested in learning your opinions about our fresh RAWMEN demo!

RAWMEN is a crazy multiplayer arena shooter where you battle with or against your friends (or foes) using lots of food-based weapons, from meat balls to bowls of hot chowder.

[h3]For those who play RAWMEN demo during the festival (until October 14) and take some time to fill in feedback survey, we have a nice surprise: a limited SpeedRunners-themed item: an epic burning HotHead glove![/h3]



[h3]Download the new demo right now:[/h3]
https://store.steampowered.com/app/782940/RAWMEN/

Thanks a lot in advance!

Hello everyone!

The summer heat is on, and we at tinyBuild wanted to do something to brighten up your day. Today, SpeedRunners is going on a weeklong sale at 67% off.

Weve been doing lots of interesting things recently, and I wanted to take the opportunity to highlight some of the things were working on.

Specifically, on August 13 (thats next week!) we are launching Kill It With Fire - a physics comedy game about exterminating spiders and burning down your house in the process. Its a very lighthearted game the alphas of which have had 90%+ ratings on Steam.


The game is on Pre-Order that allows you to save 10%, or you can simply Wishlist it! We greatly appreciate it.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1179210/Kill_It_With_Fire/

[h3]Be quick! Speedrunners and all DLCs are on sale: 67% off everything![/h3]
https://store.steampowered.com/app/207140/SpeedRunners/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/317480/SpeedRunners__Youtuber_Pack_1/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/317490/SpeedRunners__Youtuber_Pack_2/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/895440/SpeedRunners__Civil_Dispute_Character_Pack/
The deal ends on March 16th.

Hey everyone!

If you missed the livestream, it'll be soon available on our Youtube channel at https://youtube.com/tinybuildgames

We had an incredible PRE-PAX night full of announcements and mystery! I am writing this before the actual event happens, so I have no idea if we'll make it into cringe compilations yet. Fingers crossed!

So let's run through the news.

Secret Neighbor coming this HALLOWEEN

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkF9NFhV_uI

https://store.steampowered.com/app/859570/Secret_Neighbor/

Announcing Black Skylands - Playable at PAX

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhbBtC88LME&feature=youtu.be

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1143810/Black_Skylands/

Announcing Not For Broadcast - Playable at PAX

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_7kAwTJ8Ic&feature=youtu.be

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1147550/Not_For_Broadcast/

Announcing Once Upon a Time in Roswell - Playable at PAX

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHdr8SXmHx8&feature=youtu.be

https://store.steampowered.com/app/907500/Once_Upon_A_Time_In_Roswell/

Announcing RAWMEN

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aSUaYhUuxQ&feature=youtu.be

https://store.steampowered.com/app/782940/RAWMEN/

Announcing a new Pathologic 2 DLC!

The Marble Nest DLC will be free for everyone who buys the main Pathologic 2 game before the DLC comes out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nn0ogVC9pgM&feature=youtu.be

SpeedRunners finally coming to Nintendo Switch!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Jf7yGjygt0&feature=youtu.be

Yes, it's true. It's happening.

If you're at PAXWest this weekend in Seattle, be sure to checkout our large booth right next to the Indie Megabooth. We have a very special Secret Neighbor and Graveyard Keeper sections, alongside your favorite Totally Reliable Delivery Service and the games listed above.

In case you're wondering, you will indeed be able to play Graveyard Keeper in an actual coffin.

A while ago Casper has been experimenting with bounce pads. With the workshop competition going on now we figured this would be a great time to make it available in the level editor.

Casper made a demo map to showcase some ways you can use bounce pads. We're excited to see what you can come up with!

Good news everyone! We finally launched SpeedRunners on iOS.

It runs on iPhone 6S or newer, and has been rebuilt for the touch-screen.

You can get it here - https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/speedrunners-online-pvp/id1445902625?mt=8

Let us know what you think!

Surprise! We're back with another free update!

Today, we're introducing a whole new mechanic in the world of SpeedRunners, and we couldn't be more excited about it.
Up until now, there have always been two main mechanics in the game; items and boost. In this update, we're adding a third - boostacokes!
This iconic drink, as promoted by Speedrunner himself in New Rush City's famous nightclub, is able to change the whole dynamic of a match.

Here's how it works:

• pick up boostacokes to increase your maximum speed
  
• each boostacoke increases your speed by a few percent
  
• collect up to 10 boostacokes in total
  
• you drop a few boostacokes if you get hit by an explosionz
  

It has been almost a year since the last ELO season. It's about time to figure who are the best SpeedRunners players right now!
The ELO Christmas Season will run for a month from December 17th 2018 until January 20th 2019.
The season will be followed by a tournament where the top 16 players can show off their skills to the world and we will end up with one final season winner!



Season rewards:

• All players who will participate will get their league's Christmas Season Badge.
  
• All players in diamond league will receive a special Christmas themed trail.
  
• The top 16 players of the season can participate in a tournament organised by Lewis, Comment, Takumi, Kernelpad and Distinct Madness from the Discord SpeedRunners community.
  

Today's Deal: Save 67% on SpeedRunners!*

Look for the deals each day on the front page of Steam. Or follow us on twitter or Facebook for instant notifications wherever you are!

*Offer ends Tuesday at 10AM Pacific Time

Last Sunday, August 26th, marked the 5 year anniversary of SpeedRunners launching on Early Access. In the spirit of Early Access, we’re releasing an update that breaks the game, literally. We call it ‘SpeedRuiners’.



With this modifier, explosions (caused by Rockets, Bombs and Fireballs) will destroy the level geometry - creating shortcuts, opening up new routes or simply just breaking the whole level.



We recommend you turn on triple rockets and simply enjoy the chaos.



(On a serious note: obviously this modifier breaks the game, so it will only be active in quick and custom matches (not in ranked). We’ll turn it off after a couple of days, after which the modifier will be available as a custom game option).

Finally, we’d like to thank all of you who have played our little game over the past five years. We’re grateful for your support and we hope you’ve had some fun with the game! Stay tuned, because we’re working on a new update that will impact the way the game is played in a major way.

We're super excited to announce that we've just released the first of our upcoming free updates; the Team Update!

This addition adds TEAMPLAY to SpeedRunners. You can now play 2v2, as well as 2v1v1. Simply pick a teammate in the lobby and you're good to go! Here’s how it works:

• Teammates share their boost bars
  
• Teammates can swap their items
  
• Score 4 points as a team to win
  

We all know that speedrunning is about two things; SPEED and RUNNING. But which of the two is more important? Is the competition all about getting the highest SPEED, or is it one’s skill in RUNNING that ultimately decides the winner of a race?

That’s a question that’s been creating quite a controversy in New Rush City, where two opposing factions have formed; TEAM SPEED and TEAM RUNNING. “For sure it’s all about speed”, says Buckshot, spokesmammal of team speed. “I mean, you win races by being the speediest of runners - it’s called SPEEDrunners for a reason!” Gil wholeheartedly disagrees, saying “you can’t get speedy without running first. It’s obviously pronounced speedRUNNERS!”.

As the emotions are heating up between our speedy heroes, it’s become clear that each and every one of us must pick a side. So, which side are you on; team SPEED or team RUNNING? Decide quickly, because ON JULY 19th WE’LL BE RELEASING THE TEAM UPDATE!

This (free) update will add TEAMPLAY to speedrunner matches. You’ll be able to play 2v2, as well as 2v1 or 2v1v1. Pick a teammate and pick a team (team speed or team running) and work together to win races! Here’s what we’re planning:

• Teammates share their boost bars
  
• Teammates can swap their items
  
• Score 4 points as a team to win
  
• Coming July 19th!
  

Winter is coming, the jolliest ELO season of the year! The Elo Winter Season will start a bit early, Monday December 18th 2017 and will run throughout the entrie winter until March 20th 2018.

It has been more than half a year ago since we last did an ELO season, so here is a link to an announement to get you up to speed.

By the end of the season everybody who participated will gain the Winter ELO Season badge of the league tier you ended up in by the end of the season.

All players that are in Diamond league by the end of the season will get the unique Snow trail which will be the only way to ever get this trail in your inventory.



Based on what we have learned during the ELO Beta Season we made some changes for the Winter ELO Season:

More points!
In the previous season certain close games could give as few as 1.5 points or something underwhelming like that. More points are given this season, but the league requirements also have gone up!

Inactivity penalties
During last season the best tactic was pretty much to reach Diamond league and not play anymore after that. Furthermore if you had not played for a while the system would assume your skill level was still the same. If you don't play on average 1 game per day over a period of 14 days in the Winter Season you will start losing 100 points every day.

Individual initial rating
The start of previous season was pretty rough for a lot of players because players of all skill levels started with the same ELO rating. For the Winter Season we use the ratings from the previous Beta season to offset the initial rating a bit. This way the matchmaking system can actually find matches of your skill from the very start.

We hope you will enjoy the season.

Happy Holidays,
DoubleDutch Games
:SpeedRunner::Unic::Cosmo::HotHead:

P.S. There will be a small surprise in the game during holiday season starting from December 21th 2017! Make sure to speculate obsessively below :HotHead:!

Winter is coming, the jolliest ELO season of the year! The Elo Winter Season will start a bit early, Monday December 18th 2017 and will run throughout the entrie winter until March 20th 2018.

It has been more than half a year ago since we last did an ELO season, so here is a link to an announement to get you up to speed.

By the end of the season everybody who participated will gain the Winter ELO Season badge of the league tier you ended up in by the end of the season.

All players that are in Diamond league by the end of the season will get the unique Snow trail which will be the only way to ever get this trail in your inventory.



Based on what we have learned during the ELO Beta Season we made some changes for the Winter ELO Season:

More points!
In the previous season certain close games could give as few as 1.5 points or something underwhelming like that. More points are given this season, but the league requirements also have gone up!

Inactivity penalties
During last season the best tactic was pretty much to reach Diamond league and not play anymore after that. Furthermore if you had not played for a while the system would assume your skill level was still the same. If you don't play on average 1 game per day over a period of 14 days in the Winter Season you will start losing 100 points every day.

Individual initial rating
The start of previous season was pretty rough for a lot of players because players of all skill levels started with the same ELO rating. For the Winter Season we use the ratings from the previous Beta season to offset the initial rating a bit. This way the matchmaking system can actually find matches of your skill from the very start.

We hope you will enjoy the season.

Happy Holidays,
DoubleDutch Games
ːSpeedRunnerːːUnicːːCosmoːːHotHeadː

P.S. There will be a small surprise in the game during holiday season starting from December 21th 2017! Make sure to speculate obsessively below ːHotHeadː!

Brace yourselves, speedy runners. Today at 10am PST (7pm European time) SpeedRunners goes into its Free Weekend.

This goes alongside the Xbox One launch of SpeedRunners where the game is free for everyone with an Xbox Live Gold account.

Happy running!

http://store.steampowered.com/app/207140/

Brace yourselves, speedy runners. Today at 10am PST (7pm European time) SpeedRunners goes into its Free Weekend.

This goes alongside the Xbox One launch of SpeedRunners where the game is free for everyone with an Xbox Live Gold account.

Happy running!

http://store.steampowered.com/app/207140/

Today we released an update which also marks the start of the Beta Ranking Season which will run until May 14th! After the Beta Season we return to the previous ranking system with the same rank and points you had before this update.


Updates:

• ELO-based Beta Rank Season
  
• Badges
  
• Discord Voice Chat
  
• All New Ranking UI
  
• Skill-based matchmaking is now more precise
  
• No longer searches for better rooms when in a friend's custom game
  

Today we released an update which also marks the start of the Beta Ranking Season which will run until May 14th! After the Beta Season we return to the previous ranking system with the same rank and points you had before this update.


Updates:

• ELO-based Beta Rank Season
  
• Badges
  
• Discord Voice Chat
  
• All New Ranking UI
  
• Skill-based matchmaking is now more precise
  
• No longer searches for better rooms when in a friend's custom game
  

Adding features such as the ELO Beta Season and Badges made the ranking UI super cluttered. So we looked into de-cluttering the ranking interface and make it more future proof. Here is what we came up with:



The ranking screen is now more focused on your own achievements and rank status. We also added some trend indicators. These show if you are trending upward or downward since the last time you visited the rank screen.

You can still see your standing among Steam friends or the World when you click on the rank section.



We also added a new screen which shows off all the badges you've earned. This is also the place where you can select the badge you want to show in-game when taunting!



Brace yourself, the update is coming soon!

Adding features such as the ELO Beta Season and Badges made the ranking UI super cluttered. So we looked into de-cluttering the ranking interface and make it more future proof. Here is what we came up with:



The ranking screen is now more focused on your own achievements and rank status. We also added some trend indicators. These show if you are trending upward or downward since the last time you visited the rank screen.

You can still see your standing among Steam friends or the World when you click on the rank section.



We also added a new screen which shows off all the badges you've earned. This is also the place where you can select the badge you want to show in-game when taunting!



Brace yourself, the update is coming soon!

Since the start of this year we've been working with Discord to get Voice Chat support in SpeedRunners. Now finally, after the update tomorrow, Discord Voice Chat be available in-game for everyone!

For those of you who don't know yet: Discord is a free chat client that can best be described as a mix of IRC and TeamSpeak. You don't need to install the client to use voice chat in SpeedRunners, but we still recommend getting the Discord Client and joining the SpeedRunners Community Discord Server. It's a great way to meet other players and to find opponents for exciting matches.

So once again: voice chat will work even if you don't have the Discord Client installed. You don't need a Discord account or anything like that either. It will simply work when you enable voice chat in-game!*. This will allow you to chat with your opponents while in-game or in a lobby. Voice chat is disabled by default, and obviously muting is also an option.



We hope you enjoy the update tomorrow; please let us know what you think of the ranking updates and the voice chat support on the forum!

*Except for Max and Linux. On these platforms, you will actually need to install the Discord Client if you want to enable voice chat.

Before the weekend, we announced the new (beta) ELO Ranking System.

Today, we will discuss the upcoming changes in more detail. The main news is that we will be introducing seasons. Think of these as similar to how the current league system works, but within a limited timespan. This means you will be competing against other speedrunners to see who is the fastest runner during a certain period of time. At the end of a season, you will be awarded a badge that represents the league you finished in. We're not entirely sure yet on the specifics, but we're planning on running a couple of these seasons each year, for instance by having a Halloween Season or a Christmas Season. You'll be able to get a badge for each of the seasons you participate in.

Soooo what's so special about badges? Well, aside from being a nice collectible overview of your past achievements, you can pick one that will pop up over your character when you perform a taunt. This way you can show off your past achievements, like that you've participated during a special event, or that you finished in the Diamond League during one of the seasons, in-game!




While we're excited about this new idea, there could very well be some issues with how we've set everything up. So, the first season in this new ranking system will be a Beta Season - meaning some rules and variables might change mid-season. This season will run for a month; from April 13th until May 14th. The badges that you see up here are exclusive for the Beta Season; you can only get one of these badges by playing ranked matches in the specified timeframe. Other seasons will have different badges, with specific badges for each season. To be eligible to get one of these you have to play at least 15 placement matches. After those matches, you are placed in a league that suits your skill level. You can then advance in leagues just like before, by beating opponents and winning matches. Finally, when the season ends we'll be handing out badges based on what league you ended up in!

'What happens to my current ranking score?' you might ask. Obviously, we don't want to simply throw away all the hard work you've put into getting into one of the top leagues. When the ELO update goes live you will automatically receive one of the badges that you may have already noticed on top of the previous announcement; they represent your current ranking in the 'old' ranking system. Also, after the Beta Season ends, we will revert back to the 'old' ranking system (your score is frozen in the meantime) while we evaluate the results of the beta test.

But wait, there is more! If you reach the top-level Diamond tier by the end of this beta season will also get this hyper-cool exclusive trail!



Tomorrow we'll have some more info on how all of this will come together!

For almost 3 years now we've been running the same old ranking system. The system has been great for us. It has given some memorable moments from when the first player hit Platinum League. Or when Metanet01 got into the unobtainable Diamond League. This remained a feat replicated by only 8 other players to this day. Other than that the system also served as a skill indication, providing much better skill-based Match Making.

While the system has been good to us, it also has multiple issues. It feels a bit grindy and it could be better at representing current player skill.

The new ranking system
In order to solve the issues with the current system we've been testing a new ranking system for a while now in secret on the ranking server. This is an ELO based system. We are now almost ready to start a public test with the ELO system.

As it stands we're aiming to introduce the new system on Thursday April 13th 2017. It's not quite ready yet, so there is a slight chance we may not make that, but things are looking good right now. We're planning to run the new system for a month until May 14th. For the duration we are running the new system we will freeze your current score. After May 14th we will revert back to the current ranking system. At that point you can start playing in the current ranking system where you left off on April 13th.

But that's not all we have planned!

On Monday we will reveal more about why you might want to join the ELO Beta Season.

Come and watch the launch event of the Weird and Wonderful bundle on Steam, where we'll be playing all the games in the bundles amazing line-up!

LIVE NOW!
twitch.tv/tinybuild

The Weird and Wonderful Bundle is now available, offering big discounts on strange and silly games. Bundle Includes:

Surgeon Simulator Anniversary Edition
Goat Simulator
Human: Fall Flat
Speedrunners
Viscera Cleanup Detail

You can run, but you can't dodge a well executed freezeray. Enjoy ScreamRunners this week!

*you can disable these effects in options

Cool moonraker fanart from here

While posting the changelog for today's update I noticed the previous update was from 4 months ago...

The past 4 months we've been working hard on bringing SpeedRunners to consoles. Developing for consoles was pretty difficult and turned out to soak up all our attention. I am happy to inform you that we are through that now, at least for the technical part that is. So we are back to updating the game here on Steam.

Before we released the game fully out of early access we received feedback on the golden hook. The main issue was it being hard to dodge in high ping situations. Before release we spend some time trying to make the golden hook work better in those cases. We made promising progress but we didn't have time to test it fully.
Recently we have been able to test it extensively and it's ready for release now. We look forward to your feedback on the golden hook changes.

During the last months we got messages from players being verbally abusive to other players. We've been gathering reports on this for a while now, but we did not have the means to act on those reports yet. This update brings a first version of a ban system, more info on that here.
I also looked at the reports of the last couple of months and added bans for the worst offenders. We'll keep an eye on the more recent reports hereon after, so keep them coming.

Other changes involve the merging of fixes and changes we did during our work for consoles. Most of those changes is UI polish and small quality of life changes. As an example, you might notice we no longer have a timer in a lobby with only local players.

We have tested the build extensively but can never cover as much as all of you can. So keep us posted if you find any issues in the current build.

Thanks for sticking with us and enjoy the update!

--Gert-Jan

Ok, scrubs. I know there are good SpeedRunners players coming to PAXWest. I'm still a little bit upset about last year's "incident", when a 13 year old girl beat the whole team like it was nothing.

We're going to give away hundreds of hats, lanyards, and exclusive SpeedRunners T-Shirts at the event in a couple of weeks.

We'll be doing hourly tournaments at our booth. Stop, show your skills, prove you're not a scrub.

The booth is BRIGHT AS F*CK orange as usual. You'll find it. We'll be on the 4th floor next to the Indie Megabooth.

Details on our PAXWest booth activities: http://tinybuild.com/tinybuild-pax-west-2016-line-up

Save up to 90% on tinyBuild Games during this week's Midweek Madness*!

*Offer ends Friday at 10AM Pacific Time

I see you guys are enjoying the GIF editor/exporter feature in SpeedRunners.

There are a ton of great GIFs in the Artwork Community Tab and I decided to give them some exposure on Twitter with the #SpeedyProTips hashtag.

Feel free to share your SpeedyProTips with gifs!

Feel free to share your GIFs on Twitter using the #SpeedyProTips tag. I will retweet them to get you some exposure!

If your GIF is over 5mb, I typically use http://ezgif.com/optimize to shrink down size. They also have a cropping tool, and it's all web-based.

Submit your GIFs here and I can tweet them out

If you'd like me to tweet out from http://twitter.com/tinyBuild (107k followers), feel free to submit GIFs in this thread. The combination of trails and awesome moments can help bring more exposure to SpeedRunners :)

Hi everyone! We're celebrating the launch of SpeedRunners at PAX East in Boston, and tomorrow there's an upcoming Twitch Stage segment for SpeedRunners.

• Saturday at 4:15PM ET (Boston Time) / 9:15pm CET
  
• On http://twitch.tv/twitch
  
• SpeedRunners pro gaming showcase

SpeedRunners is Now Available on Steam!

Cut-throat multiplayer running game that pits 4 players against each other, locally and/or online. Run, jump, swing around, and use devious weapons and pick-ups to knock opponents off-screen! One of the most competitive games you'll ever play.

Check out this slick SpeedRunners Launch Trailer that Tom made

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWwUDenjkzs

SpeedRunners is now officially out of Early Access. After hundreds of updates, several community uprisings (remember the whole Lethal Spikes and SpeedBoosting threads?), we are officially out. That's it. Version 1.0.

Here's what the final version of SpeedRunners has to offer:

Gif Editor & Exporter

A new feature in the Replays system is the ability to crop & export GIFs directly from within SpeedRunners, check it out!

Trails Shop & Editor

Yes, you can now create your own trails for SpeedRunners and have them be available in the Trails Shop. This is a curated shop (think just like Team Fortress 2) where users can submit their content to.

Mac & Linux

I am playing SpeedRunners on a Mac, you guys! This actually works.

Single Player Campaign

The brand new single player campaign takes you on a "Mario Kart Style" adventure, going through the multiplayer maps with specific story bits and challenges. The goal of the single player campaign is to ease players into the competitive online part of the game.

Twitch Betting

You can now setup twitch betting when livestreaming SpeedRunners and it's tied to the tinyBuild rewards program.

But wait, what does going out of Early Access mean?

It means that the core features of the game are finished. We will still update the game, and are fully committed to working with the community. The only difference is that the core development team will switch their focus to consoles.

A huge THANK YOU to the community!

A special, enormous, hug-worthy THANK YOU to everyone who have been with us during Early Access. It's been an insane journey and without you guys we wouldn't be here. The hundred-reply threads on the forums, the in-depth discussions, the King of Speeds, everything about SpeedRunners Early Access revolved around obsessively reading the forum and figuring out the best solutions.

Yes, everyone in Early Access is getting a special BETA trail which is available right now.

This week we are having a launch event at PAX East in Boston with PurpleTurkey showing off his skills. Within the coming weeks we will reveal post-launch plans which include more tournaments and prizes.

Huge hugs
- tinyBuild and DoubleDutch Teams

Join is on Twitch Bets SpeedRunners -- the official prelaunch event where 4 bots play against each other, and you can make bets on who wins each round!

http://twitch.tv/tinybuild

SpeedRunners is one of those games anyone can pick up at a convention or party. Every now and then though there's this one guy at these events that starts to kick everyone's butt. It's probably because he knows the basic strats of the game. Good thing I'm here to share these with you.

If you're a novice player, or someone considering buying SpeedRunners (it's in Early Access until April 19th!), you might find these tips useful.

Let's start with the basics and work our way up. Before I get to items, I assume you understand how SpeedRunners work -- 4 players spawn in a map, and the camera follows the players in front. If you fall off-screen, you lose. "Press a to jump and figure it out" is usually good enough of an explanation.

One important thing to understand is momentum and how to get it. A very simple example is the gif below.

Getting Momentum With Slopes

• Both players jump down
  
• Both players hit a diagonal slope
  
• The slope transfers their downwards momentum into sideways momentum. That's why they have that fancy trail.

• Use it to dodge golden hooks
  
• Place it in spots where players have to slide, that'll slow the others down or force them to burn items
  
• Place them where upwards ladders end - that forces players to awkwardly jump over, costing valuable momentum

• It's easy to dodge over long distances by sliding
  
• Most efficient against other noobs or close-range against experienced players
  
• Having it in your inventory limits experienced opponents' actions

• Effective in close-quarter situations
  
• Slow in open spaces
  
• Great stun if it hits

• Has a build-up
  
• Fires through walls
  
• Freezes your enemies for a couple of seconds

• Area weapon that counters everything in the game
  
• Great for offense and defense
  
• When used skillfully, creates magnificent moments of all players slowing down

• Fast forward-rolling weapon
  
• Great for clearing paths, like getting rid of crates
  
• Efficient for both offense and defense if used properly

Hi everyone! Here's the video from last Friday's King of Speed Finale. If you missed it, spoilers -- it's a very, very good match.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=425xdDwOlQc

Calling All Boston Pros!

Are you in the Boston area?

Are you Silver or higher?

Drop us a line. We're organizing a tournament at PAX East and you might just get in! PurpleTurkey is going to be there, too. Just drop us a mail to contact at tinybuild dot com -- we'll sort it out.

Who is going to win - PurpleTurkey or Desnamed?

We will find out - https://www.twitch.tv/tinybuild

It is on this Friday.

Now that you all know SpeedRunners is coming out on April 19th, we've got something special planned for the final, most amazing King of Speed ever.

PurpleTurkey vs Desnamed

This Friday at 6pm CET we will host the finals between the King of Season 1 (PurpleTurkey) and the King of Season 2 (Desnamed).

• Friday April 8th @ 6pm CET
  
• Tune in at http://twitch.tv/tinyBuild

SpeedRunners is sprinting out of Early Access on April 19th!

We're proud to announce today that SpeedRunners will see its full release on April 19th, only two weeks from now!



It's been a long and incredible journey since we released the first beta build back in 2013. Now, over 50 updates and 2 years later, we're finally at a point where we can confidently call the game finished.

When the game first entered Early Access, we had no idea how much the game would take off - or that we would be working on it for such a long time. It was a humble prototype back then - fun and playable, but filled with game-breaking crashes and many exploitable bugs. With hard work, dedication and a lot of helpful feedback, it slowly expanded it into a highly competitive game (an official eSport even!) that sold over a million units. The process has been amazing, thanks to you; the wonderful community we've come across here on the Steam forum <3 <3 <3

Now, the full release won't be just another small update. We've got a couple cool new features lined up for you.

Mac & Linux
Along with the full release, the game will also be available on Mac and Linux. It's all the same codebase, which means there's full cross-platform support. So Mac and Linux players can play with each other, as well as with PC players. We've been running a beta for this the past few weeks, and it looks like the game runs smoothly on these platforms, so yay, finally! Full Mac and Linux support!

Custom Trails
This is a big feature, that we've been working on in secret for quite some time. In the full release, you'll be able to design, upload, share and even sell your own custom speed trails! Here's an example of one that I made:



Ever since we introduced the first trails on handicapped characters and as a reward for winning the ESL tournament, people have been super excited about getting their own trails. Some even went as far as hacking the game to get their own custom trails in. Well, this is no longer necessary, as we've built an full-fledged trail editor just for you! This editor allows you to create the most outrageous, fun, fancy and sweet-looking trails you can imagine. You can create layers, use your own artwork and even add particle effects! Here's another that I made, just for fun:



Once you're happy with the trail you've created, you can submit it to the community for curation. If it's accepted, other players will be able to buy it from the steam store, and you'll get a portion of the revenue!

Singleplayer campaign
We've created a new campaign mode, which dives into the backstory of some of the beloved SpeedRunners characters. It's a Mario Kart-style campaign, in which you play against bots of various difficulty levels in a tournament setting. We hope this will be a fun addition for new players, where they can safely learn the tricks of the game. For those of you who have already logged hundreds of hours online, it shouldn't be much of a challenge to beat the bots and unlock 4 new hand-drawn comics, centered around Moonraker, Gil, Buckshot and the Falcon's struggles in New Rush City.

Twitch Betting
Finally, we added a feature for twitch-streamers, which allows viewers to bet on the outcome of your matches. We've previewed this feature in our weekly King of Speed livestream, and it has proven to be a fun new way to experience SpeedRunners as a spectator on twitch.tv. Viewers will be able to bet special 'tinyBuild points', which they can use to craft discount coupons to tinyBuild's collection of games. Even if you're not into these types of coupons, the betting makes for a cool meta-game among viewers.

Open Beta
What's more, you can already start trying out these new features today! That's right, we're doing a beta-test while still in Early Access. So meta. Right-click on SpeedRunners in your Steam Library, select Properties > Betas and opt into the beta branch. This will give you access to the test-version of the final build, so you can already start creating cool-looking custom trails!

NB: We'll also be updating the normal version of the game today, so that it's compatible with the beta version. Aside from the new features mentioned in this post, we've also fixed a few bugs here and there. See the changelog for more details.

Wrapping up Early Access
What does leaving Early Access mean for the development of SpeedRunners? Well, let me start by saying that development will continue. There's still room for improvement and new features in SpeedRunners. For example, we're planning to overhaul the ranking system at some point. Also on the todo-list is more extensive support for ghosts to pratice with/against. So just because the game is coming out of Early Access does not mean we'll stop developing for it. However, we will be shifting our focus internally to console development, which basically means that updates will be spaced further apart.

Finally, as a thank-you to all the players who have supported us and helped us in the development of SpeedRunners during Early Access: we've made a special, Early Access-only trail that only you get exclusive access to! You'll be able to show eveyone what you were part of the original community that helped build this game into what it is today!



And there you have it; only two weeks until final release, you guys! Time to GET HYPED! :D

-Casper

Sick fanart of Salem, give this guy a thumbs up

Hi everyone! r51 introduces a series of important bugfixes alongside brand new artwork for Warehouse (now called Mansion), and a Ghosts feature in Practice Mode.

Updates!

• Added a Ghost to the Practice Mode. Race against your own best time!
  
• Updated Festival layout
  
• Enabled Mid-Game Joining in Custom Games
  
• Enabled playing unpublished maps in local multiplayer matches and in practice mode
  
• New art for Warehouse; it's now called Mansion
  
• Editor: AI volumes can now be set for specific bot difficulties. Change test bot difficulty with [ and ]

• fixed an issue where the camera would zoom in endlessly
  
• improved finding lobbies
  
• fixed a bug in level select causing RWS to be picked less
  
• bug fix for the progression storage
  
• fixed a bug where and old version of a level was loaded if you opened it right after saving
  
• a couple of other small bugfixes
  
• fixed a bug in the draw ordering of local vs. remote players
  

Tune in tonight to see who's best - Desnamed or DistinctMadness?

http://twitch.tv/tinybuild

Starting within 30 minutes of this post

On behalf of Detroy, original thread is here - http://steamcommunity.com/app/207140/discussions/2/392183857619425187/

Hello SpeedRunners,

I´d like to announce our SpeedRunners Easter Cup 2016 in which everybody is allowed to play (no country restriction), which means that even our players from Brasil and North America are allowed to participate!

You can find more details and the news for cup here:
http://play.eslgaming.com/speedrunners/europe/news/263896/

And here you can sign up for the cup:
http://play.eslgaming.com/speedrunners/europe/speedrunners/open/1on1-easter-cup-2016/

Hello!



This week's King of Speed is about to start at twitch.tv/tinyBuild at 6:30PM Amsterdam time!

Desnamed is the king, but is MVCM the actual best SpeedRunners player ON EARTH right now? I think yes!

Join the stream and try out our live betting feature as always!
Get used to it, cos those points are already earning people 75% off games coupons over on our Punch Club streams!
We'll push it to SpeedRunners asap!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FkFSMJaBB8

What a match. Anyone else looking forward to PurpleTurkey play?

Tune in tomorrow for the first ever 3 player King of Speed, featuring the infamous Taters and Roland -- they played in the very first KoS match last year. They will be joined by a mystery pro-player!

Taters vs Roland vs Desnamed - who will win?

• Tomorrow (Saturday March 5th) at 6pm CET (this is 5pm UK Time)
  
• http://twitch.tv/tinyBuild
  
• There will be more betting going on!
  

Watch Roland play against Graphiquenez2 in last weekend's King of Speed!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAaBpkyPgSY

I want to use this post to address some questions the community has. We've been iterating on the concept of King of Speed, and because of plenty of timezone issues and scheduling conflicts, it's difficult to get everyone online at a specific time that works for most.

That is why we decided to bring in new players for Episode 2.

During the episode, we were thinking (with the chat!) about doing a 4 player King of Speed. This way more players get to play, and we can for example figure out who gets the crown this season -- will Turkey be able to defeat both Roland and Desnamed? Could Taters make a comeback? All of these questions could be answered in a 4-player match.

Let us know what you think about a 4-person King of Speed idea. Meanwhile we are trying to figure out how to technically do it.

Roland vs Graphiquenez - tune in live

http://twitch.tv/tinybuild

[edit] Thanks everyone for watching! VOD coming soon!

Tune in tonight at 6pm CET to find out who is going to challenge Desnamed in King of Speed!

We have the betting system working in a much more interesting way, so be sure to tune in!

• 6pm CET (5pm UK time)
  
• http://twitch.tv/tinybuild
  
• New feature reveals and the best SpeedRunners players in the world fight it out!