I streamed a Speed Run! and filmed it!

Well I just finished streaming a run of They Bleed Pixels.  I managed to do the whole game in 43 minutes 21 seconds.  Doesn't quite match my personal best time but I'm glad to finally have a speed run up on YouTube. 

You can view it here

Enjoy!

They Bleed Pixels Part 6 [Final]

That's another playthrough finished!

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They Bleed Pixels Part 5

I've been doing a lot of writing, time to chillax with a They Bleed Pixels double bill! Starting today with part 5 and ending tomorrow with the grand finale!  Enjoy

Speed Running: The Greatest and Most Depressing Hobby

Right, I'm quite busy today so instead of talking about a specific title or ranting on industry bullshit I'm going to say something quick about my new love with speed running.

Recently I've been trying to get into this whole thing and the game I chose to break myself in was They Bleed Pixels on Steam, if you have been watching the play through you've probably heard me mention it a few times.

The thing is though, Speed Running is both a greatly satisfying and greatly depressing little past time and I'll explain why.  What's great about getting into speed running is that you get a lot of replayability out of your game.  Ironically, do to the game really fast you have to play it over and over for hours and hours so you can get quite a lot of length out of quite a short game if you start trying to speed run it.  Also the feeling of setting a new personal best time is amazing, when you come to the end of a run and you see that you were faster than you were a few days ago, it's a great feeling.

On the flip side though, for They Bleed Pixels at least, most runs can end up dead before you even hit the halfway point in the game.  A small mistake can cost you a lot of time and if you're losing lots of time then you may as well just start over.  What's even worse is if you get quite far and you're having a good time then suddenly you screw up and all your effort goes right down the drain.  It's one of those things that just makes you want punch a hole through your computer monitor and rip your controller in half.

Luckily there have been no hardware casualties yet during my efforts but I'm going to assume as I take up a couple more games, something will get broken at some point whether through constant use or extreme frustration.  Still, if you find that the games you're dropping your hard earned cash on are a bit on the short side and leaving you disappointed, take up speed running, it's a great way to extend the life of a title and you may even make a few friends with the friendly communities that are out there.

Once I finish the playthrough I'll upload a They Bleed Pixels speed run attempt of my own, so keep an eye out.

They Bleed Pixels Part 4

Right, I said the proper posts were coming, so let's kick it off with a new play through episode!

I'll be polishing off the last few levels real soon, stay tuned!

Tau Plays They Bleed Pixels Part 3!

Well I've been sick with a cold for the last week or so and that's why there has been no YouTube stuff for the last few days.  But now I'm recovered and I got some more stuff out, so go check it out!

They Bleed Pixels Part 2!

Well, I uploaded part 2 of the They Bleed Pixels playthrough to YouTube.  Not really a lot more to say than that, but this will be the last long parts as I intend to do the last 4 levels as their own separate parts.

ENJOY!

NEW PLAYTHROUGH! They Bleed Pixels Part 1!

Well I was going to do Bioshock but my recording software crashed and I lost all my footage, so have a casual playthrough of my current speed run project instead!

VIDEO!

They Bleed Pixels

Well hot damn, Steam managed to give me another awesome indie game for basically no money!

Anyway, The Bleed Pixels is an indie platformer created by Spooky Squid Games with strong lovecraftian themes but instead of a dark atmosphere and gritty tales of people going mad, they went for a game about a little girl killing the shit out of monsters in her dreams.

The story is very thin on the ground and is told through a couple of still images in between each chapter and contains absolutely no text or spoken dialogue.  From what one can tell in the first couple of screens, the story follows a young girl as she arrives at Lafcadio Acadamy for Troubled Young Ladies and she finds some kind of book that gives her nightmares.

The game play is very simple, with a sort of mix between Super Meat Boy and Devil May Cry if you boiled the game play down to one button combat on a 2D plane.  Half of the game you spend navigating platforms and desperately trying not to fall into massive spike death pits, and the other half of the game you spend comboing the levels monsters to earn enough blood gauge so you can drop down another checkpoint.

It's quite short with a prologue, an epilogue and 3 chapters with 3 levels each, but the later stages can be extremely challenging so don't expect things to be a walk in the park.  There are also so bonus stages and a staggering 126 in game goals to complete so it's not like you don't get your money's worth.

So check out They Bleed Pixels on Steam.  I like it so much maybe I'll do a playthrough!