Note: This page is a work in progress and is still subject to change. Feel free to provide feedback in this forum thread.

TASVideos publications are presented in "classes" that reflect their goal choices. Our judges accept submissions to one of these classes based on the technical quality of the run and the feedback it receives on the Workbench.

In order for a run to be accepted, it has to have a high level of optimization and a reasonable goal choice, such as beating the game as fast as possible ("any%") or fully finishing the game as fast as possible ("100%"). Runs with more esoteric goal choices may be subjected to feedback from our audience for inclusion in a separate category. If a run doesn't meet our standards of optimization, or if its goal choice is not accepted by our community, it will be rejected.

Our Standard class houses the vast majority of movies on the site. Each one uses one of the standard goals that can be listed on that page.

Entertainment, while always encouraged, is not a metric of judgement for standard publication. Standard runs can be as entertaining as the runner wants them to be, as long as they meet the other requirements.

As a note, "Standard" is just a technical name in order to easily categorize publications. It is not meant as an explicit name for the movies contained within. We do not "publish to Standard", we are simply publishing runs according to our standard.

The Events class contains showcases of TASing at events such as marathons or conventions. Publications in this class are not required to be sync verified, and do not necessarily contain an accurate movie file. The goal is to highlight and preserve TAS content that is showcased in a public setting and may be incapable of adhering to the typical expectations of movie publications.

The Alternative class houses movies that do not follow standard goals. In addition to meeting our optimization standards, alternative runs must also be deemed entertaining by the site's audience, i.e a user-defined goal choice must be appealing to more than just the user that defines it. While the alternative class is focused on entertainment, it is strictly not meant to imply that its movies are more entertaining than every standard publication. Alternative movies may even become standard publications based on potential updates to our list of standardized goals.

Playground is a class that hosts well-done and verifiable movies that represent solid goals, but do not meet some of our Movie Rules. Its purpose is to feature content that TASers are interested in creating regardless of how TASVideos defines things. Those movies don't go through the official publication process and are presented as submissions instead.

Standard class description

Events class description

Alternative class description

Playground class description