Sadly, we're still in the process of moving and not properly set up in our new place, so we can't do more Lil Gator Game live speedrun attempts today. But we'll do them soon!
Such a fun lil speedrun to watch! Happy to see the game shown off to larger audiences and especially the recognition of its speedrun. ❤ Huge thank you for the shoutout as well, very unexpected I must say. 😅
DAN! You probably weren't aware of this when you named your speedrunning Gator, but I NEED YOU TO KNOW THIS: "Flink" is a German word meaning "fast", "swift" or "nimble"! A very fitting name!
I'm thinking it would need to be applied to "a rookie's attempted runs" or "learning the run" rather than a polished performance. Would not the actual record holders or contenders be the point of GDQ otherwise? However, I mean, if Dan F. WANTED to chase that I wouldn't root against him. Although would Carrie and Dan J be good commentators for serious runs? Dan F would want them by his side of course but the being nn-distracting commenting is a skillset too. Hm. WEll, bonus points for the suggestion, Pauldetyrion, wonder if something DOES come it?
Honestly, I'd feel kinda bad for the actual record holders in the game if they submitted a run and PlayFrame beats them out due to popularity. That's a helluva way to smack down smaller creators, even unintentionally. And ItzBytez seems to have submitted to SGDQ2023 and been accepted, and I'd say they're way more deserving of the slot than Dan would be even if he wanted it.
Congrats on your first run!! You even unintentionally followed the unwritten rule of PB videos which is to always include the last reset before the run 😉
My favorite thing about the speedrunning community is a short summary of the requirements. Paraphrased: "If you're using a timer and trying to go fast, you are speedrunning. You're a speedrunner. Routing, glitching, strats, all of those come with improvement. None of them are a barrier to entry." Congratulations on entering the Videogame Olympics, Dan!
As I strongly associate both of the speedruns I've learned (Sayonara Wild Hearts and Hollow Knight) with this channel, it's exciting to see you pick up one for yourself as well! Well done!
@@hoodiesticks More or less. There are some cutscene skips that require precise timing, and depending on the category (any% or NoDeathSkips) you can either use intentional deaths to skip some parts (the narrator comes in to offer you skips if you die at the same Spot multiple times), and/or you (probably) need to practice to get the whole game deathless.
@@hoodiesticks That said, this is the reason that most of the leaderboard times are very close together. And it's basically dead, because you can have an almost perfect run fairly easily, and then you're only restricted by loading times. I ran for a week or so, got third place in NoDeathSkips and that run still stands in 6th place one and a half years later *shrugs It's not a very competitive run, but it's easy to learn and a good excuse to play more Sayonara.
I amazed that I've never seen a video of a walkthrough of a speedrun explaining the bits and pieces, followed by the actual speedrun. I feel like this format just works so well it's amazing I haven't seen it elsewhere sooner
I never thought I'd enjoy watching a speedrun. Once again Dan and Carrie show me the error of my ways. Loved this!! Edit: I just checked and Dan is still on the board at #24 the day this video released.
And ItzBytez has been dropped into second place behind Ero (by a whole 4 seconds on the same basic route) - though they still hold both All Friends (just under 23 minutes) and 100% (a little over an hour)
Being "on the board" just means that you have submitted a speedrun, the leaderboard extends for as many people have submitted a valid run (each person's personal best is shown by default). But it is somehow nice to see him there, I agree :D
There's a lot of fun speedruns out there, if you want to try and watch others I'd suggest look up you favorite game on the Games Done Quick channel since they're runs have commentary that's very newcomer friendly that will explain everything going on (as well as fun shenanigans!)
One thing that can also be surprisingly fun is watching those videos about the history of certain categories. It seems kinda silly to care about improvements of a few seconds or less, but the people who narrate it have such a good sense of narration and storytelling that you find yourself really hooked
@@dacolib SummoningSalt and Bismuth are extremely good for this kind of thing. SummoningSalt very recently put out a new one about the Super Mario Bros. 3 100% category.
How fun to have Dan take us through his process and then to let us accompany you guys during this first run you officially submit. Keep filming other steps in your journey, such as if you explore doing All Friends. Don't know MUCH about TH-cam but under the belief that more content is usually rewarded, you guys are fun enough that I can't see an occasional release of your speedrun adventures, especially when you try new stuff. Look, all I'm saying is after I discovered your channel, when taking into account there's a couple games I frankly don't want to see, it's actually conceivable I could run out of content around here someday (I use you and Barry Kramer for a lot of background cheerful playing fun). I don't want to run that risk, guys!
This was exactly what I always want speedruns to be. By the time you got to the actual run I knew enough about the route and techniques to understand what was going on and be suitably impressed. There was enough routing optimization for that to be interesting but I could follow your movement the whole time. Also Carrie was there.
Had to check back on the rankings after rewatching this. Nicely done getting your time down into the 16 minute range and currently 22 on the leaderboard! 🎉
56:45 - no Carrie's right, it's reflected, not upside down - I guess they flipped the model for the cutscene or something and forgot to flip the non-symmetric gum box?
Cool beans that you went with *Flink* this time. It seems to have a lot of great meanings, though I only suggested it as a combination of Floyd and Link lol
I don't watch a lot of speedruns but whenever I do I'm always tickled by the runners having to do something silly like chessboard sniping XD I feel like I need to watch more
Dan getting into speedrun is the kind of delight i wasn't expecting to see (also now you have the speedrun mindset would have been a more favorable time to have gotten into the Sonic series LMAO )
1:00: I'm familiar with speedrunning, but I tend to find explaining routing, tricks, and so forth more interesting than the actual run. I'll rewatch OneShortEye explaining how to speedrun _King's Quest_ way more than I'd watch him actually speedrun _King's Quest._ 29:30: To me, speedrunning is less interesting the more you focus on competition. I find runner vs. runner fights over leaderboard position less compelling than community vs. game, focusing on how _all_ the runners _working together_ find new ways to beat the game faster. (It's one reason I like OneShortEye's speedrunning videos more than, say, Summoning Salt's.) 38:38: It ain't the wild west of the oughts-era speedrunning scene. (So many speedrunning videos start with something like "Speedrunner Morbutz said they got a 1:43:02 time, and we have no way of verifying or disproving that claim." Followed shortly by "Video of jun's historic sub-53 run has been lost to the sands of time".) 19:15: Two fun speedrun tricks in a row. 30:55: Carrie is allowed to have that opinion. I'm allowed to think back on all the adventure game speedruns where RNG is the primary determinant of whether you can get a decent time or not and disagree. 37:20: Carrie is allowed to make that point, and I'm allowed to agree with it. It's good. 40:35: It's nice to see a speedrun mode that really gets what speedrunners need. 45:55: The ubiquitous timer program is definitely a neat bit of speedrunning imagery. It keeps track of where you're doing well, where you're doing bad, and how close you've come to your theoretical PB. According to speedrun.com, ItzBytez has lost first-place Any% to Ero, but maintains first place in the other categories. Dan has 24th place, which probably sounds more impressive if you don't look up how many runners are listed on speedrun.com.
This was so much fun to watch! Congrats on your time! I did notice those drips coming off of Floyd during your longplay. I interpreted them as anime nervousness, but that didn't entirely seem like it fit the context. The bucket explanation make a lot more sense.
You may have just inspired me to speedrun Later Alligator. Probably won't be as fun as this one but I've constantly replayed L A for for the past 2 years so I'm pretty familiar with it lol
As the 118th worldwide record holder for Any% A Short Hike... you should do that one. It's like a sub 5 minute speedrun so there's lots of time to practice the run.
I don't really like speed runs, but I'm happy to see that Dan finally had a session playing this game where he did not forget that sledding is a mechanic that exists in the game.
Sadly, we're still in the process of moving and not properly set up in our new place, so we can't do more Lil Gator Game live speedrun attempts today. But we'll do them soon!
No prob😊
hey, at least the move has worked out so far (presumably)
sorry your move is taking so long.
Thanks for the update. I can't wait to have paper Mario back!
Such a fun lil speedrun to watch! Happy to see the game shown off to larger audiences and especially the recognition of its speedrun. ❤ Huge thank you for the shoutout as well, very unexpected I must say. 😅
Aww thanks! And thanks for (indirectly) teaching me this route also, your runs for any% and All Friends have been extremely helpful learning tools :D
DAN! You probably weren't aware of this when you named your speedrunning Gator, but I NEED YOU TO KNOW THIS: "Flink" is a German word meaning "fast", "swift" or "nimble"! A very fitting name!
Flink is very flink, I think.
Similarly on point, in Danish it means "kind".
Flink is indeed the perfect name for the Floydgator of SPEED.
@@Kartaal huh, in norwegian it means "good" or "skilled". So many semi-false friends, but they all fit haha
In Dutch, it means brave or hefty!
It's interesting so many translations that show it to be the best name for this gator forever :v
Congratulations on your speedrun, speedrunner. Welcome to the speedrunning community!
As someone who has done three GDQ runs, all of the admiration for “gdq runners” is very sweet
Dan, I think you could totally run this at a GDQ, with Carrie and Jones on commentary it would be awesome
heck, that would be so cool
Dan Olson ran Amy at GDQ, anything's possible with smaller games like this.
I'm thinking it would need to be applied to "a rookie's attempted runs" or "learning the run" rather than a polished performance. Would not the actual record holders or contenders be the point of GDQ otherwise? However, I mean, if Dan F. WANTED to chase that I wouldn't root against him. Although would Carrie and Dan J be good commentators for serious runs? Dan F would want them by his side of course but the being nn-distracting commenting is a skillset too. Hm. WEll, bonus points for the suggestion, Pauldetyrion, wonder if something DOES come it?
Honestly, I'd feel kinda bad for the actual record holders in the game if they submitted a run and PlayFrame beats them out due to popularity. That's a helluva way to smack down smaller creators, even unintentionally. And ItzBytez seems to have submitted to SGDQ2023 and been accepted, and I'd say they're way more deserving of the slot than Dan would be even if he wanted it.
Congrats on your first run!! You even unintentionally followed the unwritten rule of PB videos which is to always include the last reset before the run 😉
My favorite thing about the speedrunning community is a short summary of the requirements. Paraphrased: "If you're using a timer and trying to go fast, you are speedrunning. You're a speedrunner. Routing, glitching, strats, all of those come with improvement. None of them are a barrier to entry." Congratulations on entering the Videogame Olympics, Dan!
As I strongly associate both of the speedruns I've learned (Sayonara Wild Hearts and Hollow Knight) with this channel, it's exciting to see you pick up one for yourself as well! Well done!
Wait, how do you speedrun Sayonara? Isn't that just an arcade run?
@@hoodiesticks More or less. There are some cutscene skips that require precise timing, and depending on the category (any% or NoDeathSkips) you can either use intentional deaths to skip some parts (the narrator comes in to offer you skips if you die at the same Spot multiple times), and/or you (probably) need to practice to get the whole game deathless.
@@hoodiesticks That said, this is the reason that most of the leaderboard times are very close together. And it's basically dead, because you can have an almost perfect run fairly easily, and then you're only restricted by loading times. I ran for a week or so, got third place in NoDeathSkips and that run still stands in 6th place one and a half years later *shrugs
It's not a very competitive run, but it's easy to learn and a good excuse to play more Sayonara.
So excited to see Dan running this at GDQ with Carrie and Dan Jones on the couch.
I amazed that I've never seen a video of a walkthrough of a speedrun explaining the bits and pieces, followed by the actual speedrun. I feel like this format just works so well it's amazing I haven't seen it elsewhere sooner
I never thought I'd enjoy watching a speedrun. Once again Dan and Carrie show me the error of my ways. Loved this!! Edit: I just checked and Dan is still on the board at #24 the day this video released.
And ItzBytez has been dropped into second place behind Ero (by a whole 4 seconds on the same basic route) - though they still hold both All Friends (just under 23 minutes) and 100% (a little over an hour)
Being "on the board" just means that you have submitted a speedrun, the leaderboard extends for as many people have submitted a valid run (each person's personal best is shown by default). But it is somehow nice to see him there, I agree :D
There's a lot of fun speedruns out there, if you want to try and watch others I'd suggest look up you favorite game on the Games Done Quick channel since they're runs have commentary that's very newcomer friendly that will explain everything going on (as well as fun shenanigans!)
One thing that can also be surprisingly fun is watching those videos about the history of certain categories. It seems kinda silly to care about improvements of a few seconds or less, but the people who narrate it have such a good sense of narration and storytelling that you find yourself really hooked
@@dacolib SummoningSalt and Bismuth are extremely good for this kind of thing. SummoningSalt very recently put out a new one about the Super Mario Bros. 3 100% category.
This is the first game I have ever felt the compulsive urge to speed run!
There are just so many ways to efficiently (and entertainingly) get around!
How fun to have Dan take us through his process and then to let us accompany you guys during this first run you officially submit. Keep filming other steps in your journey, such as if you explore doing All Friends. Don't know MUCH about TH-cam but under the belief that more content is usually rewarded, you guys are fun enough that I can't see an occasional release of your speedrun adventures, especially when you try new stuff. Look, all I'm saying is after I discovered your channel, when taking into account there's a couple games I frankly don't want to see, it's actually conceivable I could run out of content around here someday (I use you and Barry Kramer for a lot of background cheerful playing fun). I don't want to run that risk, guys!
this is amazing! Lil Gator Game got me back into speedrunning as well!
I would LOVE to see the occasional casual speedrun on the channel or on Twitch!
This was exactly what I always want speedruns to be. By the time you got to the actual run I knew enough about the route and techniques to understand what was going on and be suitably impressed. There was enough routing optimization for that to be interesting but I could follow your movement the whole time. Also Carrie was there.
I’m not used to being this early! This is exciting, wow. Hope moving is going smoothly for y’all!
I love how doing a speerdun put dan in speed-talk mode. I had to double check to see if I had the video on 1.25 speed hehe.
GG Dan. Thoroughly enjoyed this speedrun + guide video.
Had to check back on the rankings after rewatching this. Nicely done getting your time down into the 16 minute range and currently 22 on the leaderboard! 🎉
Congrats! Hope the cats and yourselves are settling in to the new place, and see you soon on Twitch, maybe!
This video got me to start speedrunning this game already...
my PB is 17:04 so far!
Heck yeah, congrats!
56:45 - no Carrie's right, it's reflected, not upside down - I guess they flipped the model for the cutscene or something and forgot to flip the non-symmetric gum box?
Welcome to the addiction, Dan! Looks like a fun movement-tech-based run, kinda like a (much) shorter SMO. May have to give LGG a go :D
congratulations on your first published speedrun! 💚So cute! And funny that we get to blame Dan2 for it 😜
7:58 I swear that trick is straight up in Breath of the Wild
Cool beans that you went with *Flink* this time. It seems to have a lot of great meanings, though I only suggested it as a combination of Floyd and Link lol
I loved y'all doing a speedrun, this was a ton of fun! Thanks for explaining the route beforehand as well.
I really appreciate all the explanations and I enjoyed this, as well as the casual playthrough, very much. Thank you for sharing!
Loved Carrie's subtle "Rat Race" reference right at the end, the ultimate speedrun movie.
While people out there might be speedrunning their 'Towers of Pizza', Dan knows where the *REAL* speedrun strats are at 😎
I don't watch a lot of speedruns but whenever I do I'm always tickled by the runners having to do something silly like chessboard sniping XD I feel like I need to watch more
Coming back here to mention that during SGDQ, they named their gator Floyd. PlayFriends are amazing!
That was such a cool idea and run. Friendship Speedrun!
Dan : I'm gonna do a speedrun !
Also Dan : explains the categories with the timer on.
Dan getting into speedrun is the kind of delight i wasn't expecting to see (also now you have the speedrun mindset would have been a more favorable time to have gotten into the Sonic series LMAO )
1:00: I'm familiar with speedrunning, but I tend to find explaining routing, tricks, and so forth more interesting than the actual run. I'll rewatch OneShortEye explaining how to speedrun _King's Quest_ way more than I'd watch him actually speedrun _King's Quest._
29:30: To me, speedrunning is less interesting the more you focus on competition. I find runner vs. runner fights over leaderboard position less compelling than community vs. game, focusing on how _all_ the runners _working together_ find new ways to beat the game faster. (It's one reason I like OneShortEye's speedrunning videos more than, say, Summoning Salt's.)
38:38: It ain't the wild west of the oughts-era speedrunning scene. (So many speedrunning videos start with something like "Speedrunner Morbutz said they got a 1:43:02 time, and we have no way of verifying or disproving that claim." Followed shortly by "Video of jun's historic sub-53 run has been lost to the sands of time".)
19:15: Two fun speedrun tricks in a row.
30:55: Carrie is allowed to have that opinion. I'm allowed to think back on all the adventure game speedruns where RNG is the primary determinant of whether you can get a decent time or not and disagree.
37:20: Carrie is allowed to make that point, and I'm allowed to agree with it. It's good.
40:35: It's nice to see a speedrun mode that really gets what speedrunners need.
45:55: The ubiquitous timer program is definitely a neat bit of speedrunning imagery. It keeps track of where you're doing well, where you're doing bad, and how close you've come to your theoretical PB.
According to speedrun.com, ItzBytez has lost first-place Any% to Ero, but maintains first place in the other categories. Dan has 24th place, which probably sounds more impressive if you don't look up how many runners are listed on speedrun.com.
This was so much fun to watch! Congrats on your time!
I did notice those drips coming off of Floyd during your longplay. I interpreted them as anime nervousness, but that didn't entirely seem like it fit the context. The bucket explanation make a lot more sense.
Awesome to see a speedrun on the channel, i would love to see more in the future as you improve!
...This was a surprise. But a very welcome one!
You may have just inspired me to speedrun Later Alligator. Probably won't be as fun as this one but I've constantly replayed L A for for the past 2 years so I'm pretty familiar with it lol
Looking forward to seeing you at LGDDQ (Little Gator Dan Done Quick)!
It's a very exclusive speedrunning event. If Dan Floyd hadn't invited Dan Jones, he could have easily taken first place.
As the 118th worldwide record holder for Any% A Short Hike... you should do that one. It's like a sub 5 minute speedrun so there's lots of time to practice the run.
Bought the game because of you’re play through and I have been having the time of my life
Well done! At time of comment you are 25th🎉 and have held that position or better for a month.
I see 24th, and he still has the same time he got in this video.
Dan speaks so fast like he is *THE* speedrun himself
I thought I selected x2 playback speed until I also hear Carrie
"Flink" means "skilled" in my language.
I assume most people with an interest have noticed, but ItzBytes is on the schedule for Wednesday of SGDQ2023.
The extra boost jump thing from the bubble gum should be called the Bubble Double (jump)
As of the writing of this comment, our man Dan (DanFloydPlus) is on the board as 26th! Congrats to all the speedrunners for their great runs! =D
FPS = Friends Per Second.
I think I'd be a "lil Island" specalist in lil gator game.
You guys, I want to see so many Danhunters on the leaderboard in a week...
Dan's first speed run!!!
Flink is German for fast 😅
wow top 30 run
And to think that as of the time of this comment, ItzBytez has lost first place, and Dan is still in the top 25!
speedy gators!
I would love if there was a map and you could see your movement like in Breath of The Wild.
Maybe break the trash sign when returning the backet.❤️
Attempting to do so just causes Roy to yell at you, costing time and not actually breaking the sign.
@@PlayFramePlus daaamn Welp ok. Damn you Devs for making a wholesome game I guess
Also 24th place man that's good super sicked for future attempts
Thanks! It's been a very fun run to learn and I'm excited to stream more as soon as we can actually get set up again :D
PB!!!!!!
This is more than a walk through, but not quite a speed run. Maybe a "Let's Jog"?
Nyooooooom
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#26 as the time of this comment. Good job Dan! :)
Stardew Valley speedrun when?
I don't really like speed runs, but I'm happy to see that Dan finally had a session playing this game where he did not forget that sledding is a mechanic that exists in the game.
Wait what