So another round of community input is called for! We (mainly arkiandruski) have compiled a list of common types of tricks to find in any average TAS or speedrun:
https://docs.zoho.com/writer/ropen.do?rid=udqvhaeefa22459bb41718824008eea56cc40
(section called "Generic introduction to trick types used in runs")
There's two questions I'm posing you now, dear follower of this thread:
1) Are there any more generic types of tricks that you can think of that we're completely missing?
2) We want there to be one game that features at least one trick per trick class "movement tricks", "death abuse" etc. to be used to start each class off. Currently the games that were suggested were Super Mario Kart and Mega Man 2. Could you form your objective opinions about whether either of these games, or some other game altogether, would fill such requirements? If bad comes to worse, we might resort to using several games from one game series.
Relatedly, there was a discussion of whether MM2 features a death abuse. This was pointed out:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SJ077P12cs&t=13m20s but was also deemed not ideal because we want to keep the general order of trick types (the bold headings) as it it and the clip unfortunately does the OOB things first and death abuse after it. They can't really be separated. Furthermore it's probably not the most intuitively clear example to begin with (being inside two rooms at once as it were).
So are there any other games we could also be considering? Thanks for any input!