BOINK! You can now play as the Scout from TF2.

Prepare for King of Speed next week.

BOINK! You can now play as the Scout from TF2.

Prepare for King of Speed next week.

Join #TeamFalcon or #TeamSpeedRunner next week in King of Speed 2 - the boostanoid-fueled official SpeedRunners tournament.


Next week we are introducing 2 DLC character packs into SpeedRunners. These packs contain 4 celebrity characters each. One pack is assigned to #TeamFalcon, the other - to #TeamSpeedRunner.

If you play as The Falcon, or any of the characters on #TeamFalcon, wins count towards that team. Same for #TeamSpeedRunner. You don't need to buy the DLC to participate, but if you do - it will be for a good cause.


You can guess the team assignments yourself :)

• PewDiePie
  
• Markiplier
  
• JesseCox
  
• CinnamonToastKen
  
• Strippin
  
• Dodger
  
• PeanutButterGamer
  
• UberHaxorNova

FAQ


King of Speed is an in-game tournament between the characters of SpeedRunners. The first one was held in December 2013 and featured an ARG, the culmination of which revealed Game Modifiers.



In the first King of Speed, we counted wins of individual characters for a month, and in the end Cosmo was crowned as King Cosmo and wore a crown for a month in-game.

This time The Falcon faces off with SpeedRunner in an ultimate showdown of Speed and Running. And they are backed up by teams of Youtubers to help!


No, you can support your team by playing as either The Falcon or SpeedRunner


We are adding 3 more skins to the Falcon just for this event. Spoilers? I probably shouldn't be revealing this.


This is something we're figuring out with the help of experienced parties like Humble Bundle. If you have suggestions - let us know.


We are aiming for $2.99 per pack, so less than $1 per character


Personal statement from Alex Nichiporchik (CEO @tinyBuild):

Screw cancer. It took the life of countless people in my family, and almost took mine. I believe with the popularity of SpeedRunners we can make a difference to advance its research.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KH2qI8o70FE

Join #TeamFalcon or #TeamSpeedRunner next week in King of Speed 2 - the boostanoid-fueled official SpeedRunners tournament.


Next week we are introducing 2 DLC character packs into SpeedRunners. These packs contain 4 celebrity characters each. One pack is assigned to #TeamFalcon, the other - to #TeamSpeedRunner.

If you play as The Falcon, or any of the characters on #TeamFalcon, wins count towards that team. Same for #TeamSpeedRunner. You don't need to buy the DLC to participate, but if you do - it will be for a good cause.


You can guess the team assignments yourself :)

• PewDiePie
  
• Markiplier
  
• JesseCox
  
• CinnamonToastKen
  
• Strippin
  
• Dodger
  
• PeanutButterGamer
  
• UberHaxorNova

FAQ


King of Speed is an in-game tournament between the characters of SpeedRunners. The first one was held in December 2013 and featured an ARG, the culmination of which revealed Game Modifiers.



In the first King of Speed, we counted wins of individual characters for a month, and in the end Cosmo was crowned as King Cosmo and wore a crown for a month in-game.

This time The Falcon faces off with SpeedRunner in an ultimate showdown of Speed and Running. And they are backed up by teams of Youtubers to help!


No, you can support your team by playing as either The Falcon or SpeedRunner


We are adding 3 more skins to the Falcon just for this event. Spoilers? I probably shouldn't be revealing this.


This is something we're figuring out with the help of experienced parties like Humble Bundle. If you have suggestions - let us know.


We are aiming for $2.99 per pack, so less than $1 per character


Personal statement from Alex Nichiporchik (CEO @tinyBuild):

Screw cancer. It took the life of countless people in my family, and almost took mine. I believe with the popularity of SpeedRunners we can make a difference to advance its research.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KH2qI8o70FE

Technically it is r31.5 -- everything from r31 is now live, along with a few additional changes, such as graphics options in settings, pause screen having control setup, and some bahhhh.

Full update log:

• The prototype level is now the Zoo level.
  
• Small level updates, details here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyJv0LyxvWo
  
• Updates on Buckshot's, 招き猫 and Gil's animation.
  
• Fireballs can now be thrown when walking up on slopes.
  
• Fireballs are now moving at the same speed no matter which direction you throw them.
  
• Fireballs now have a slightly lower collision box.
  
• DoubleJumping after a superboost doesn't make you lose your speed anymore.
  
• Added a 'wrong way' indicator.
  
• Added a 'no item' game option.
  
• Network rerouting. The game now sends messages through other players if that turns out to be faster (or the only way to reach them). This should in turn fix a bunch of in-game issues.
  
• Fix: the jittery motion during swinging for some players.
  
• Fix: laser sliding.
  
• There are graphics options in the options menu now (note: resolution, vsync or windowed settings the steam game launch options overrule the graphics options in the options menu. This may be a good time to remove the graphics options from the steam game launch options.)
  
• The last item on the workshop levels list can now be selected.
  
• AI volumes are now triggerable.
  
• Many updates on the level editor.
  
• Many smaller updates and fixes.
  
• Up to 1 goat per match
  
• Controls can now be changed during the game.
  
• Fixed the swing knockback glitch.
  
• Fixed checkpoints in some levels.

Technically it is r31.5 -- everything from r31 is now live, along with a few additional changes, such as graphics options in settings, pause screen having control setup, and some bahhhh.

Full update log:

• The prototype level is now the Zoo level.
  
• Small level updates, details here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyJv0LyxvWo
  
• Updates on Buckshot's, 招き猫 and Gil's animation.
  
• Fireballs can now be thrown when walking up on slopes.
  
• Fireballs are now moving at the same speed no matter which direction you throw them.
  
• Fireballs now have a slightly lower collision box.
  
• DoubleJumping after a superboost doesn't make you lose your speed anymore.
  
• Added a 'wrong way' indicator.
  
• Added a 'no item' game option.
  
• Network rerouting. The game now sends messages through other players if that turns out to be faster (or the only way to reach them). This should in turn fix a bunch of in-game issues.
  
• Fix: the jittery motion during swinging for some players.
  
• Fix: laser sliding.
  
• There are graphics options in the options menu now (note: resolution, vsync or windowed settings the steam game launch options overrule the graphics options in the options menu. This may be a good time to remove the graphics options from the steam game launch options.)
  
• The last item on the workshop levels list can now be selected.
  
• AI volumes are now triggerable.
  
• Many updates on the level editor.
  
• Many smaller updates and fixes.
  
• Up to 1 goat per match
  
• Controls can now be changed during the game.
  
• Fixed the swing knockback glitch.
  
• Fixed checkpoints in some levels.

Fun fact. You guys cumulatively spent 162 years in SpeedRunners. Here's an infrographic we came up with while snooping through the Steam stats:



Meanwhile this weekend Gert-Jan and Luke are at EGX London. If you're in the Rezzed area, stop by!


Back here in the Netherlands we are working on a large update, and the work just keeps on piling up. Wouter is still working on the gravity volumes and some other things -- like getting graphics settings into the game, he's getting the grip of it.

Tom and Matthijs are doing tons of animation/character design work. Some of the stuff we already shared on Twitter:





There's much more in the works. We got one large content update planned for the first week of October, and another one for mid-October.

This presents several problems which me & Casper have been trying to solve. Main one is that if we add more characters, it becomes an issue when you want to select them. The current UI is fine for up to 6 characters, but when you go over 10 - you get a panic attack after scrolling through all of them, trying to find your favorite. So we're working on that.

Fun fact. You guys cumulatively spent 162 years in SpeedRunners. Here's an infrographic we came up with while snooping through the Steam stats:



Meanwhile this weekend Gert-Jan and Luke are at EGX London. If you're in the Rezzed area, stop by!


Back here in the Netherlands we are working on a large update, and the work just keeps on piling up. Wouter is still working on the gravity volumes and some other things -- like getting graphics settings into the game, he's getting the grip of it.

Tom and Matthijs are doing tons of animation/character design work. Some of the stuff we already shared on Twitter:





There's much more in the works. We got one large content update planned for the first week of October, and another one for mid-October.

This presents several problems which me & Casper have been trying to solve. Main one is that if we add more characters, it becomes an issue when you want to select them. The current UI is fine for up to 6 characters, but when you go over 10 - you get a panic attack after scrolling through all of them, trying to find your favorite. So we're working on that.

Hi everyone!

I wanted to take a moment and talk about the current state of SpeedRunners and where it's going in the coming months.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyJv0LyxvWo&list=UUHLuN_JL66bD8fdJWmQ-gNw

Casper walks us through some important changes in SS Royale, Library, and Factory.


Casper just took off to Tokyo to showoff SpeedRunners as part of Sense of Wondernight. I hear he has some T-Shirts with him :)


Part of the team is going to London next week to showcase SpeedRunners at EGX Rezzed. We will continue doing the tinyQuest there, so make sure to collect ALL THE CARDS!


The artistic part of the team is now working on a Lets Player character pack. During PAX Prime we teamed up with Polaris to get Youtube celebrities to play SpeedRunners together, and we are getting them into the game as characters. The idea is that we want to raise money for cancer research, in light of my cancer fight 10 years ago, and TotalBiscuit's recent encounter. Screw cancer!


We're still holding off releasing r31. The $6.5k Gfinity Cup is still on-going and it feels very bad to accidentally break the game during arguably our kickstart into the E-Sports scene.


The DoubleDutch Team has a new full-time developer on board! Wouter is now working on something Casper came up with during Gamescom - flipped gravity volumes. So you can drop a volume in the level editor that flips the gravity.

This bring the total team to 6 people.

Casper - game & level design
Gert-Jan - everything code, network & magic related
Wouter - more code
Alex (me) - production/marketing
Tom - character design, animation
Matthijs - 3D animation (newest characters are animated in 3D and exported to 2D sprites)

We're also working on a deal with an external 2D animation studio to speed up the process with new characters. Right now the plan is for the Lets Player Youtube Pack to be a separate thing you buy and we donate the proceeds from that to charity. In regards to actual in-game characters - we are still debating how that gets into the game.

*backflips out of announcement*