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"Devs Play" S1E06 - Psychonauts "The SMK Speedrun" [1/1]

In the finale of Double Fine's Devs Play, speedrunner SMK demonstrates glitches and exploits that skip entire sections of Psychonauts while Tim Schafer and the dev team watch. The developers react to and discuss the bugs as they appear.

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Why HN readers recommended it

Recommended as an entertaining, hilarious view of developers watching a speedrunner break their game.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel
Double Fine
Topic
speedrunning
Format
demo
Level
general
HN recommenders in dataset
3
HN mentions in dataset
3
Recommendation years in dataset
2019–2022

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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  • For people who like this post, I highly recommend "Devs Play" S1E06 - Psychonauts "The SMK Speedrun" by Double Fine Production: [VIDEO] They had a speedrunner running their game in front of the development team which is hilarious.

    franknine on Hacker News · 2019-07
    In I thought I made a hard game and then speedrunners destroyed it

  • You might be interested in watching this speedrunner go through Psychonauts while the entire dev team watches. I found it entertaining and much more fun than trying to play it myself. :) [VIDEO]

    radnor on Hacker News · 2020-03
    In Why Adventure Games Suck (1989)

  • Psychonaut's dev reaction is my favorite one because they had one-to-one with a speedrunner talking about every game exploits used to get the fastest time possible.[1] [1]: [VIDEO]

    8K832d7tNmiQ on Hacker News · 2022-04
    In Overhauling Mario 64's code to reach 30 FPS and render 6x faster on N64 [video]

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