This topic is for the purpose of discussing #10209: TheSunGodNika's GC Animal Crossing "part time job" in 14:16.267

Could you explain what’s going on in the TAS? I’m not familiar with the game or its speedruns. What is the goal? Additionally, why are there only 39 rerecords?

Could you explain what’s going on in the TAS? I’m not familiar with the game or its speedruns. What is the goal? Additionally, why are there only 39 rerecords?

The goal is to finish all the jobs given by Tom Nook in the fastest time possible, as well as introduce the villager to all the animals (And the mayor) in the village. The luck with not having a villager job in the first try and going to the houses and the wishing well without having to look at the map is an additional bonus for this TAS to speed things up. There's only 39 rerecords because the TAS was made in a span of 2 hours, using Dolphin's game speed setting to slow down the game to 40% in most cases. I mostly didn't make any mistakes, except for stuff like at the end where I didn't advance Tom Nook's message box at one point

I decided to better up the TAS summary, so now it's updated to explain the TAS and even the game itself.

speedrun.com has a category for "Chores & Credits", which involves finishing the part-time job and then talking to the K.K. Slider to roll the credits. The world record is 12:35, which is about 2 minutes faster than this submission. For a run to be acceptable, it has to match or beat all known records. There are noticeable sub-optimal actions in the submission, such as taking a detour when a more straight path is possible, slight delays in menuing and advancing texts, and typing more letters than required (especially in the bulletin board). It would be possible to fix those errors using more rerecords. Also, I'm not well-versed in this game, but just sharing something I noticed: the RTA route talks to the villagers first, then enters Tom Nook's store to receive the first task. It seems to save time by skipping the "greet everyone" task and all dialogue accompanied by it.

Didn’t watch this yet as I’m not too familiar with a animal crossing speedrun or TAS, but will have to say that the quality overall for the submission seems to be lacking a little bit. Not to be crude, but I’m pretty the animal crossing game I’ve played was that darn Mario Party ripoff on the Wii U. Meh vote.

I agree with the other posts in that this doesn't seem to be optimized enough for publication (although I am not too familiar with the game either). No vote.

Hello SunGodNika! There were some things I wanted to note about your TAS. This category on speedrun.com is called "Chores & Credits", which completes the part-time job and talks to K.K. Slider to activate the credits. The world record for that category is 12:35, which is close to 2 minutes faster than this TAS. There's also a Golden Rod TAS that completes the chores in 12:25. For this to be accepted, it would have to beat all known records [The movie must be technically sound]. Since there is a credits sequence with K.K. Slider, I also think it makes sense to end this movie after activating it. Games like this usually need to be worked on over longer amounts of time. The movement looks sloppy in some areas, sometimes dialogue isn't skipped immediately, and using two exclamation points `!!` instead of one `!` prints an extra character each time the name is said. Sufficient optimization is expected for any TAS submitted here. You don't need to rush to make a TAS, feel free to watch over your own work and improve on everything you can. Look up other speedruns or a TAS of the game so you can implement the same strategies. If you or anyone else makes an Animal Crossing submission in the future, for any game in the series, there are 3 big things I think need to be handled: 1. A good town map. This means having most / all buildings close to each other to complete every objective quickly. Compared to an example I found on the forums, this map has very spread out buildings. In the forum map, all 6 villager houses are within 4 acres of each other, with Nook's Cranny right above them, and a Post Office right next to it. 2. Some amount of luck manipulation. Villagers with the shortest names and the shortest catch phrase (e.g. Nan says "kid", Ace says "ace") need to be prioritized, otherwise time is lost to printing extra characters. 3. This one kind of falls into the above. In Wild World the chores that Nook give you are randomized. You need a chore that makes him say the least dialogue and gives the least amount of work. Entering acres on different frames changes the RNG, which could help with having to do a chore for a closer villager instead of one further away. (Assuming chores are random like they are in Wild World)

om, nom, nom... 'twas dry