Slay the Spire Developers React to 5 Minute Speedrun

Watch as Mega Crit Games' Anthony Giovannetti (Co-Designer) and Casey Yano (Co-Designer) give their thoughts on speedrunner Anti_Flame's blazing fast speedrun through their game: Slay the Spire.

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[rdh]

Speedrunner beats the game in 5 minutes 3 seconds. Developer's first thought? "We should make an achievement for beating the game in under five minutes just to torment everyone". lol.

[Elhao]

Other games' speedrun techs: out of bounds adventures, air swimming, glitching.
Slay the Spire speedrun tech: play the game really fast

[joby]

Really cool attitude of, "if its speedrunner friendly, and doesn't affect regular gameplay, why patch it" such a refreshing take from game devs

[Anti-Flame]

Big thanks Casey and Anthony for doing this - it's humbling to say the least! I've had the pleasure of talking to them on a handful of occasions too, and they're exactly like this behind closed doors - warm-hearted, unashamedly nerdy goofballs who made a game they never foresaw being this successful and popular and are just kind of riding the wave without having it go to their heads.

I no longer stream (real life work, relationships and physical health take precedence) but thanks to IGN's Mark Medina for getting in touch and being fully transparent, giving full credit and all that kinda stuff - super professional, decent bloke. I may do a throwback stream in early March just to see how bad I am at speedrunning now 😂


Peace and love, one and all
Iain/Anti_Flame

[peoduction]

This series is an IGN 10/10 keep it up guys!

[GhengisJohn]

Me: Every spire run is a four hour adventure that sees me mulling over difficult choices for minutes at a time.
This guy: Has finished a run in the time it takes me to decide what path to take.
Though to be fair, he didn't take on The Heart. Would like to see how that goes for him packing the philosopher's stone and brimstone.

[BKSC]

I thought it was a joke when they said the run wasn’t seeded... looked up the seeded speedrun.

[Theosyion]

I kinda want to see team cherry watch the hollow knight speedrun now.

[lukeweber]

This speedrunner the type of dude to smuggle dinosaur embryos in a Barbasol can.

[Gorilla_Chaos]

I used to speedrun this game and honestly the whole tech is just “think fast loser”

[JairusC]

"We should make an achievement, "Under 5 Mins" to troll them."

LOL. These guys are great. Guess I'll go buy the game now.

[miguelgomes]

he is a pirate, what you expect from a pirate ?!

[DonGeritch]

it's nice to see that the hacker from jurassic park survived mostly intact, besides losing his right eye, and now spends his time in a more honest way - speedrunning

[midnightgadget]

I swear i could hear the Dev's utter "Newman" under their breaths.

[noskill]

Developers- “This game takes about an hour”

Speed runners- “Hold my energy drink, give me 5 minutes”

[breakdancingbusgo]

I really love this "Devs react to Speedruns" series, keep it up!

[gustaveriksson]

If the devs read these comments, this was GOTY for me.

[ZamWeazle]

Due to the nature of the game one can't always speed run it perfectly all the time. But this is ridiculously impressive

[disasterjones]

negating the flex debuff with artifact is genius

[naftulzvi]

The runner looks like the bad guy from Jurassic Park.