Posted: 9/15/2018 2:36 PM
Post subject: Teslagrad
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BoursinBurger
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Joined: 12/18/2008
Posts: 33
Location: SC
Greetings TASers! I have been a fan of TASVideos and speedrunning in general for many years, but only one game has intrigued me enough to speedrun it myself: Teslagrad. I am overjoyed to learn that libTAS has become an accepted TAS tool and am here to bring you the past few years of work the real-time speedrunning community has accomplished with this game. Teslagrad is a Metroidvania-style puzzle platformer by Norwegian indie game company Rain Games. It involves using the polarity of electromagnetism to manipulate objects and to levitate. You also collect a pair of boots which allow you to teleport a short distance through obstacles, an ability which we have exploited to skip several portions of the game, including mandatory collectibles and two of the boss fights. I admittedly have never been a good runner of the game myself, but I have enjoyed serving as strategist and scribe, formulating some time savers and cataloguing all of our knowledge into a dedicated section of the Teslagrad wikia site. Most of our tricks are accompanied by video clip demonstrations. The things we have found are too numerous to list here, so I encourage anyone interested to visit: https://teslagrad.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Speedrunning Full videos of our runs can be found here: https://www.speedrun.com/Teslagrad
Posted: 8/22/2021 7:55 AM
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BoursinBurger
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Joined: 12/18/2008
Posts: 33
Location: SC
Resurrecting this nearly three-year old thread with an update. In the three-year interim we have discovered more time-saving techniques in the real-time Any% run to bring the optimal completion time below 18 minutes. LibTAS has become mature enough to work with Unity games, and we have established a working environment running Ubuntu via WSL2 and Teslagrad via Steam for Linux. We are now beginning to record a TAS.